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UT ARLINGTON (formerly Arlington State College in The Texas A&M University System; transferred by Texas Legislature to UT System on April 23, 1965)

12/1/1958 - 6/30/1959 Acting President Jack R. Woolf (Died 6/12/2014)
7/1/1959 - 9/1/1968 President Jack R. Woolf (Died 6/10/2014) (Emeritus title granted in 1968)
9/1/1968 - 6/30/1969 Acting President Frank Harrison (Died 8/9/2013)
7/1/1969 - 11/3/1972 President Frank Harrison (Died 8/9/2013)
11/4/1972 - 1/31/1974 Acting President Wendell H. Nedderman (Died 5/8/2019)
2/1/1974 - 8/31/1992 President Wendell H. Nedderman (Emeritus title granted 6/11/1992; effective 9/1/1992) (Died 5/8/2019)
9/1/1992 - 5/31/1995 President Ryan C. Amacher (Died 11/25/2018)
6/1/1995 - 2/29/1996 Interim President Robert E. Witt
3/1/1996 - 2/28/2003 President Robert E. Witt
3/1/2003 - 1/31/2004 President ad Interim Charles A. Sorber (Died 10/18/2013)
2/1/2004 - 5/31/2013 President James D. Spaniolo (Emeritus title granted 5/5/2022)
6/1/2013 - 3/19/2020 President Vistasp M. Karbhari
3/20/2020 - 4/30/2020 Administrator in Charge Teik C. Lim
5/1/2020 - 4/27/2022 President ad interim Teik C. Lim
4/28/2022 -  President Jennifer Cowley

UT AUSTIN (formerly Main University of Texas at Austin effective by Texas Legislature on May 27, 1966) 

9/7/1895 - 6/30/1896 President ad interim Leslie Waggener (Died 8/19/1896)
7/1/1896 - 9/15/1899 President George Tayloe Winston (Died 8/26/1932)
11/4/1899 - 7/24/1905 President William Lambdin Prather (Died in office 7/24/1905)
7/24/1905 - 9/1/1905 Acting President Thomas Stalworth Henderson
(Note: also served as Regent during this time frame)
(Died 2/17/1937)
9/1/1905 - 9/1/1908 President David Franklin Houston (Died 9/2/1940)
9/1/1908 - 12/15/1914 President Sidney Edward Mezes (Emeritus title granted 12/14/1929) (Died 9/10/1931)
11/16/1914 - 6/30/1916 Acting President William James Battle (Died 10/9/1955)
7/1/1916 - 6/30/1923 President Robert Ernest Vinson (Died 9/2/1945)
7/1/1923 - 7/31/1924 President ad interim William Seneca Sutton (Died 11/26/1928)
8/1/1924 - 9/1/1927 President Walter Marshall William Splawn (Died 1/17/1963)
9/1/1927 - 5/10/1937 President Harry Yandell Benedict (Died in office 5/10/1937)
5/12/1937 - 5/31/1937 Comptroller John William Calhoun and Dean H. T. Parlin handled University matters
6/1/1937 -5/31/1939 President ad interim John William Calhoun (Died 7/7/1947)
6/1/1939 - 11/1/1944 President Homer Price Rainey (Died 12/19/1985)
11/2/1944 - 5/23/1946 Acting President Theophilus Shickel Painter (Died 10/5/1969)
5/24/1946 - 8/31/1952 President Theophilus Shickel Painter (Died 10/5/1969)
9/1/1952 - 1/31/1953 Acting President James Clay Dolley (Died 7/28/1977)
2/1/1953 - 8/31/1960 President Logan Wilson (Died 11/7/1990)
(Note: also served as Acting Chancellor 1/2/1954 to 9/30/1954, President of the University of Texas 10/1/1954 to 8/31/1960, and Chancellor 9/1/1960 to 3/31/1961)
9/1/1960 - 5/31/1961 President ad interim Harry Huntt Ransom (Died 4/19/1976)
6/1/1961 - 6/30/1963 President Joseph Royall Smiley (Died 5/25/1990)
7/1/1963 - 11/1/1967 President Harry Huntt Ransom (Died 4/19/1976) 
(Note: also served as Chancellor from 6/30/1961 to 1/1/1971) (Note: From 7/1/1963, the Board of Regents consolidated the administration of the System and the Main University through November 1, 1967)
11/1/1967 - 9/1/1970 Acting President Norman Hackerman (Emeritus title granted 8/10/2006) (Died 6/16/2007)
7/1/1970 - 7/1/1971 President ad interim Bryce Jordan (Emeritus title granted 8/10/2006) (Died 4/12/2016)
7/9/1971 - 9/24/1974 President Stephen Hopkins Spurr (Died 6/20/1990)
9/25/1974 - 9/11/1975 President ad interim Lorene Lane Rogers (Died 1/11/2009)
9/12/1975 - 8/31/1979 President Lorene Lane Rogers (Emeritus title granted 2/8/1990) (Died 1/11/2009)
9/1/1979 - 8/31/1985 President Peter T. Flawn (Emeritus title granted and effective 9/1/1985) (Died 5/7/2017)
9/1/1985 - 8/31/1992 President William H. Cunningham
9/1/1992 - 12/31/1992 Acting President William S. Livingston (Died 8/15/2013)
1/1/1993 - 6/30/1997 President Robert M. Berdahl
7/1/1997 - 4/12/1998 President ad interim Peter T. Flawn (Emeritus title granted and effective 9/1/1985) (Died 5/7/2017)
4/13/1998 - 1/31/2006 President Larry R. Faulkner (Emeritus title granted 2/9/2006)
2/1/2006 - 6/2/2015 President William C. Powers, Jr. (Died 3/10/2019) (Emeritus title granted 11/19/2020)
6/3/2015 - 5/31/2020 President Gregory L. Fenves 
6/1/2020 - 9/22/2020 President ad interim Jay C. Hartzell
9/23/2020 -  President Jay C. Hartzell

UT BROWNSVILLE (established September 1, 1991; closed September 1, 2016)

9/1/1991 - 12/31/1991 President Homer J. Peña (Founding President) Started service as President of Pan American University at Brownsville in 1980 (Emeritus title granted 8/10/2006)
1/1/1992 - 8/31/2014 President Juliet V. García
9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Interim Chief Executive Officer William Richard Fannin 
9/1/2015 - 9/1/2016 Chief Executive Officer Janna Arney  

UT DALLAS (formerly Graduate Research Center of the Southwest effective February 14, 1961; renamed Southwest Center for Advanced Studies effective January 1, 1967; joined UT System on September 1, 1969)

9/1/1969 - 6/30/1971 Acting President Francis S. Johnson (Died 9/17/2009)
7/1/1971 - 8/31/1981 President Bryce Jordan (Emeritus title granted 8/10/2006) (Died 4/12/2016)
9/1/1981 - 5/15/1982 Acting President Alexander L. Clark (Died 5/31/2009)
5/16/1982 - 8/31/1994 President Robert H. Rutford (Emeritus title granted 7/11/2007) (Died 12/1/2019)
9/1/1994 - 5/31/2005 President Franklyn G. Jenifer (Emeritus title granted 11/10/2005)
6/1/2005 - 6/30/2015 President David E. Daniel (Resigned effective 6/30/2015 to become Deputy Chancellor at UT System) (President Emeritus title granted 11/15/2018)
7/1/2015 - 7/14/2016 Interim President B. Hobson Wildenthal (Died 9/4/2021)
7/15/2016 - President Richard C. Benson 

UT EL PASO (formerly Texas School of Mines and Metallurgy; renamed College of Mines and Metallurgy in 1920; renamed Texas Western College in 1949;  joined UT System in 1919)

5/1/1914 - 11/30/1922 Dean Steven Howard Worrell (Deceased)
12/1/1922 - 8/31/1923 Acting Dean John William Kidd (Died 12/29/1941)
9/1/1923 - 8/31/1927 Dean John William Kidd (Died 12/29/1941)
9/1/1927 - 7/10/1931 Dean Charles Alexander Puckett (Unable to verify emeritus status) (Died 2/1/1970)
7/11/1931 - 5/15/1934 President John Gerald Barry (Died 9/28/1963)
5/16/1934 - 8/31/1935 Acting President Charles Alexander Puckett (Unable to verify emeritus status) (Died 2/1/1970)
9/1/1935 - 8/31/1948 President Dossie Marion Wiggins (Unable to verify emeritus status) (Died 9/1/1978)
9/1/1948 - 12/31/1948 Ad Interim President Eugene McRae Thomas (Unable to verify emeritus status) (Died 4/2/1980)
1/1/1949 - 8/31/1954 President Wilson Homer Elkins (Unable to verify emeritus status) (Died 3/17/1994)
9/1/1954 - 6/14/1955 Acting President Alvin Arlton Smith (Deceased)
6/15/1955 - 8/31/1958 President Dysart Edgar Holcomb (Died 2/26/2010)
9/1/1958 - 7/31/1960 President Joseph R. Smiley (Died 5/25/1990)
8/1/1960 - 8/14/1960 Acting President Anton Berkman (Died 5/1/1973)
8/15/1960 - 8/31/1968 President Joseph M. Ray (Died 6/20/1991)
9/1/1968 - 5/31/1969 Acting President Robert Milton Leech
6/1/1969 - 12/22/1972 President Joseph R. Smiley (Died 5/25/1990)
12/22/1972 - 7/14/1980 President Arleigh B. Templeton (Died 10/28/2006)
7/14/1980 - 6/30/1987 President Haskell M. Monroe, Jr. (Died 11/13/2017)
7/1/1987 - 2/10/1988 Interim President Diana S. Natalicio (Died 9/24/2021)
2/11/1988 - 8/14/2019 President Diana S. Natalicio (President Emerita title
granted 8/14/2019)
(Died 9/24/2021)
8/15/2019 - President Heather Wilson

UT PAN AMERICAN (formerly Edinburg College; formerly Edinburg Junior College; formerly Pan American College; and formerly Pan American University; joined UT System in 1989; closed August 31, 2015)

9/1/1989 - 8/22/2004 President Miguel A. Nevárez (began service at Pan American University in 1981) (Emeritus title granted 8/22/2013)
8/23/2004 - 1/30/2009 President Blandina (Bambi) Cárdenas
2/16/2009 - 11/11/2009 Interim President Charles A. Sorber (Died 10/18/2013)
11/12/2009 -12/31/2009 President-Designate Robert S. Nelsen
1/1/2010 - 9/2/2014 President Robert S. Nelsen
9/3/2014 - 8/31/2015 Interim Chief Executive Officer Havidán Rodríguez

UT PERMIAN BASIN (formerly The University of Texas of the Permian Basin; joined UT System in 1969)

4/1/1970 - 12/20/1974  President B. H. Amstead (Died 11/10/2016)
12/1974 - 9/11/1975  President ad interim V. R. Cardozier (Died 11/2/2014)
9/12/1975 - 9/1982  President V. R. Cardozier (Died 11/2/2014)
10/1/1982 - 8/11/1983  Acting President Donald T. Rippey (Died 3/16/2016)
8/12/1983 - 11/1991  President Duane M. Leach (Died 9/3/2021)
1/1/1992 - 4/30/1993 Interim President Edwin R. Sharpe, Jr.
5/1/1993 - 5/31/2001 President Charles A. Sorber (Died 10/18/2013) (Emeritus title granted and effective 2/6/2014)
6/11/2001 - 6/30/2017 President W. David Watts
7/1/2017 - President Sandra K. Woodley

UT RIO GRANDE VALLEY (authorized by the Texas Legislature in 2013)

6/15/2014 - President Guy H. Bailey

UT SAN ANTONIO (joined UT System in 1969)

5/10/1970 - 12/21/1972 President Arleigh B. Templeton (Died 10/28/2006)
12/26/1972 - 1/5/1973 Acting President Peter T. Flawn (Emeritus title granted and effective 8/23/2012) (Died 5/7/2017)
1/6/1973 - 12/31/1977 President Peter T. Flawn (Emeritus title granted and effective 8/23/2012) (Died 5/7/2017)
1/1/1978 - 2/7/1979 Acting President James W. Wagener
2/8/1979 - 8/31/1989 President James W. Wagener
9/1/1989 - 2/7/1990 Acting President M. Dan Williams
2/8/1990 - 5/16/1999 President Samuel A. Kirkpatrick
5/17/1999 - 3/2/2017 President Ricardo Romo
3/3/2017 - 8/31/2017 Interim President Pedro Reyes (served as Acting President from 2/14/2017 to 3/2/2017)
9/1/2017 - President T. Taylor Eighmy

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY (Stephen F. Austin State University joined the U. T. System effective September 1, 2023. The Stephen F. Austin Board of Regents approved an affiliation with the U. T. System, and on May 10, 2023, the Governor signed legislation authorizing the transition of Stephen F. Austin into U. T. System)

9/1/2023 -  Interim President Gina Oglesbee
(appointed by the Stephen F. Austin Board effective 6/1/2023)

UT TYLER (aligned with U. T. Health Science Center - Tyler on December 21, 2020; formerly Tyler State College in 1971; renamed Texas Eastern University in 1975; joined UT System September 1, 1979)

9/1/1972 - 6/30/1981 President James H. Stewart, Jr. (Emeritus title granted 2/10/2005)
7/2/1981 - 7/31/1981 Acting President John R. Sawyer
8/1/1981 - 6/30/1998 President George F. Hamm (Emeritus title granted 5/8/2003) (Died 10/10/2010)
7/1/1998 - 12/31/2016 President Rodney H. Mabry (Emeritus title granted 11/19/2020)
1/1/2017 - 1/3/2021 President Michael V. Tidwell
1/4/2021 -  President Kirk A. Calhoun

UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (joined UT System in 1949 - formerly UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas; UT Health Science Center - Dallas)

7/31/1946 - 8/31/1950 Dean William Lee Hart (Deceased)
9/1/1950 - 10/10/1951 Dean Carl A. Moyer (Deceased)
10/11/1951 - 12/31/1951 Acting Dean James A. Gill (Died 8/18/1979)
1/1/1952 - 8/31/1954 Dean George N. Aagaard (Died 5/7/1997)
9/18/1954 - 1/27/1955 Acting Dean James A. Gill (Died 8/18/1979)
1/28/1955 - 6/30/1967 Dean James A. Gill (Died 8/18/1979)
7/1/1967 - 10/19/1972 Dean Charles C. Sprague (Died 9/17/2005)
10/20/1972 - 8/31/1986 President Charles C. Sprague (Emeritus title granted 7/12/1986; effective 9/1/1986) (Died 9/17/2005)
9/1/1986 - 9/1/2008 President C. Kern Wildenthal (Emeritus title granted 12/12/2013)
9/2/2008 - President Daniel K. Podolsky

UT MEDICAL BRANCH - GALVESTON (began operations in 1891)

1891 - 9/17/1897 Dean John Fannin Young Paine (Died 10/2/1912)
9/18/1897 - 5/14/1898 Dean Allen John Smith (Died 8/19/1926)
5/16/1898 - 6/15/1901 Dean Henry Pendleton Cooke (Died 8/8/1925)
6/15/1901 - 8/31/1903 Dean Allen John Smith (Died 8/19/1926)
9/1/1903 - 2/10/1922 Dean William Spencer Carter (Died 5/12/1944)
2/10/1922 - 3/16/1926 Dean William Keiller (Died 2/22/1931)
3/16/1926 - 8/31/1928 Acting Dean Henry C. Hartman (Died 5/16/1963)
9/1/1928 - 4/17/1935 Dean George Emmett Bethel (Died 4/17/1935)
6/1/1935 - 8/31/1938 Dean William Spencer Carter (Died 5/12/1944)
9/1/1938 - 1/1/1939* Acting Dean Byron M. Hendrix (Died 6/12/2003)
11/1/1938* - 2/28/1942 Dean John William Spies (Died 7/1/1971) (*Byron M. Hendrix served from 11/1/1938 through 1/1/1939 while John William Spies was on leave of absence)
8/1/1942 - 8/31/1955 Executive Vice President and Dean Chauncey D. Leake (Died 1/11/1978)
9/1/1955 - 3/31/1956 Chairman Truman G. Blocker, Jr. (Died 5/17/1984)
3/31/1956 - 8/31/1964 Executive Director and Dean John B. Truslow (Died 3/10/1983)
9/1/1964 - 1/31/1974 President Truman G. Blocker, Jr. (Died 5/17/1984)
2/1/1974 - 8/31/1974 President Designate William C. Levin (Emeritus title granted 2/12/1998) (Died 1/28/2013)
9/1/1974 - 8/13/1987 President William C. Levin (Emeritus title granted 2/12/1998) (Died 1/28/2013)
8/13/1987 - 9/30/1997 President Thomas N. James (Died 9/11/2010)
10/1/1997 - 8/31/2007 President John D. Stobo (Emeritus title granted 10/8/2008; effective 10/15/2008)
9/1/2007 - 8/31/2019 President David L. Callender
9/1/2019 - 10/4/2021 Interim President Ben G. Raimer
10/5/2021 - 8/22/2022 President Ben G. Raimer
8/23/2022 - 8/14/2023 President ad interim Charles P. Mouton
8/15/2023 -  President Jochen Reiser

UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER - HOUSTON (formerly Texas Dental College and UT Medical School at Houston; joined UT System in 1970)

1/1/1970 - 11/3/1972 Dean of UT Medical School at Houston, Cheves McCord Smythe (Died 5/11/2020)
11/4/1972 - 3/31/1974 Acting President John V. Olson (Died 6/4/1995)
4/1/1974 - 4/15/1977 President Charles A. Berry (Died 3/1/2020)
4/15/1977 - 8/31/1978 Acting President Truman G. Blocker, Jr. (Died 5/17/1984)
9/1/1978 - 9/1987 President Roger J. Bulger
9/1987 - 9/15/1989 Interim President John C. Ribble
10/1/1989 - 8/31/2000 President M. David Low (Died 6/15/2018)
9/1/2000 - 3/31/2001 Interim President James T. Willerson (Died 9/16/2020) (Emeritus title granted 11/19/2020)
4/1/2001 - 7/31/2008 President James T. Willerson (Died 9/16/2020) (Emeritus title granted 11/19/2020)
8/1/2008 - 3/31/2011 President Lawrence R. Kaiser
4/1/2011 – 10/21/2012 Interim President Giuseppe N. Colasurdo
10/22/2012 - President Giuseppe N. Colasurdo

UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER - SAN ANTONIO (authorized to join UT System in 1959)

9/1/1962 - 1/1/1965  Dean (South Texas Medical School) Robert C. Berson (Deceased)
1/1/1965 - 6/9/1972  Dean (South Texas Medical School) F. Carter Pannill (Died 6/30/2012)
6/9/1972 - 11/4/1972  Interim Dean Truman G. Blocker, Jr. (Died 5/17/1984)
11/4/1972 - 1/31/1985  President Frank Harrison (Emeritus title granted and effective 11/16/2000) (Died 8/9/2013)
2/1/1985 - 10/15/2000  President John Prentice Howe, III (Emeritus title granted and effective 11/12/2009)
10/16/2000 - 1/31/2009  President Francisco G. Cigarroa
1/12/2009 - 6/18/2009  Interim President William L. Henrich
6/19/2009 - 6/24/2012* President William L. Henrich (*President Henrich took a short leave of absence)
6/25/2012 - 2/17/2013 Interim President Kenneth L. Kalkwarf
2/18/2013 - 3/14/2024 President William L. Henrich resumes office (Died 3/14/2024)
2/19/2024 - Acting President Rob Hromas

UTMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER (formerly Texas State Cancer Hospital, and MD Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research; joined UT System in 1941 as UTMD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, renamed UT System Cancer Center and later, UTMD Anderson Cancer Center)

9/1/1942 - 7/31/1946 Acting Director E. W. Bertner (Died 7/18/1950) 
8/1/1946 - 10/31/1968 Director R. Lee Clark (Emeritus title granted 8/4/1978 retroactive to 8/1/1978) (Died 5/3/1994)
11/1/1968 - 7/31/1978 President R. Lee Clark (Emeritus title granted 8/4/1978 retroactive to 8/1/1978) (Died 5/3/1994)
8/1/1978 - 8/31/1996 President Charles A. LeMaistre (Emeritus title granted 8/8/1996; effective 9/1/1996) (Died 1/28/2017)
9/1/1996 - 8/31/2011 President John Mendelsohn (Emeritus title granted 5/18/2018) (Died 1/7/2019)
9/1/2011 - 3/20/2017 President Ronald A. DePinho
3/21/2017 - 11/30/2017 Interim President Marshall E. Hicks 
12/1/2017 - President Peter W. T. Pisters

UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER - TYLER (became an administrative part of U. T. Tyler effective January 4, 2021; formerly UT Health Center - Tyler; East Texas Chest Hospital; joined UT System in 1977)

3/1/1970 - 6/7/1970 Acting Superintendent George A. Hurst (Died 12/10/2023)
6/8/1970 - 8/31/1979 Superintendent George A. Hurst (Died 12/10/2023)
9/1/1979 - 1/5/1998 Director George A. Hurst (Emeritus title granted 11/12/1998 and effective 1/5/1999) (Died 12/10/2023)
1/5/1998 - 12/16/1998 Acting Director Ronald F. Garvey (Died 3/15/2012)
12/17/1998 - 10/31/2002 President Ronald F. Garvey (Emeritus title granted 5/13/2004 retroactive 2/1/2003) (Died 3/15/2012)
11/1/2002 - 1/3/2021 President Kirk A. Calhoun

revised March 21, 2024