University of Iowa Presidents
- Amos Dean, 1855–59
- Silas Totten, 1859–62
- Oliver M. Spencer, 1862–67
- Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1867–68
- James Black, 1868–70
- Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1870–71
- George Thacher, 1871–77
- Acting President: Christian W. Slagle, 1877–78
- Josiah Little Pickard, 1878–87
- Charles Ashmead Schaeffer, 1887–98
- Acting President: Amos Noyes Currier, 1898–99
- George Edwin MacLean, 1899–1911
- John Gabbert Bowman, 1911–14
- Thomas Huston Macbride, 1914–16
- Walter Albert Jessup, 1916–34
- Eugene Allen Gilmore, 1934–40
- Acting President: Chester Arthur Phillips, 1940
- Virgil Melvin Hancher, 1940–64
- Howard Rothmann Bowen, 1964–69
- Willard L. Boyd., 1969–81
- Acting President: Duane C. Spriestersbach, 1981–82
- James O. Freedman, 1982–1987
- Acting President: Richard D. Remington, 1987–1988
- Hunter R. Rawlings III, 1988–1995
- Acting President: Peter E. Nathan, 1995
- Mary Sue Coleman, 1995–2002
- Interim President: Willard L. Boyd
- David J. Skorton, 2003–2006
- Interim President: Gary Fethke, 2006–2007
- Sally Mason, 2007-
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