University of Iowa Presidents

Amos Dean
1855-1859

Silas Totten
1859-1862

Oliver M. Spencer
1862-1867

James Black
1868-1870

George Thatcher
1871-1877

Josiah Little Pickard
1878-1887

Charles Ashmead Schaeffer
1887-1898

George Edwin MacLean
1899-1911

John Gabbert Bowman
1911-1914

Thomas Huston Macbride
1914-1916

Walter Albert Jessup
1916-1934

Eugene Allen Gilmore
1934-1940

Virgil M. Hancher
1940-1964

Howard R. Bowen
1964-1969

Willard L. Boyd, Jr.
1969-1981

James O. Freedman
1982-1987

Hunter R. Rawlings III
1988-1995

Mary Sue Coleman
1996-2002

David J. Skorton
2003 to 2006

Gary Fethke
Interim President, 2006 to 2007

Sally Mason
2007 to present

Many UI Presidents are included in
The Presidents Club membership
rosters, including Willard L. Boyd, Jr.; Hunter R. Rawlings III; David J. Skorton; and Mary Sue Coleman, who is a member of Presidents Club Silver through her generous contributions.

Several other fomer Presidents or their spouses are included in the Presidents Club's "In Memoriam" listing.