Chief Executives of The University
- Abraham Baldwin, President (1785–1801; 16 years)
- Josiah Meigs, President (1801–1810; 9 years)
- John Brown, President (1811–1816; 6 years)
- Robert Finley, President (1817; 1 year)
- Moses Waddel, President (1819–1829; 10 years)
- Alonzo S. Church, President (1829–1859; 30 years)
- Andrew A. Lipscomb, Chancellor (1860–1874; 15 years)
- Henry Holcombe Tucker, Chancellor (1874–1878; 4 years)
- Patrick Hues Mell, Chancellor (1878–1888; 10 years)
- William Ellison Boggs, Chancellor (1889–1898; 9 years)
- Walter Barnard Hill, Chancellor (1899–1905; 6 years)
- David Crenshaw Barrow, Jr., Chancellor (1906–1925; 20 years)
- Charles Melton Snelling, Chancellor (1925–1932; 7 years)
- Steadman Vincent Sanford, President (1932 — 1935; 3 years)
- Harmon White Caldwell, President (1935–1948; 13 years)
- Jonathan Clark Rogers, President (1949–1950; 2 years)
- Omer Clyde Aderhold, President (1950–1967; 17 years)
- Frederick Corbet Davison, President (1967–1986; 9 years)
- Henry King Stanford, Interim President (1986–1987; 1 year)
- Charles Boynton Knapp, President (1987–1997; 10 years)
- Michael F. Adams, President (1997–present; 15 years)
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