List of University of New Mexico presidents

This is a list of University of New Mexico presidents includes all permanent and interim presidents from the beginning of instruction in 1892 to the present.

# Term Name Accomplishments
1 1891–1897 Elias S. Stover
2 1897–1901 Clarence L. Herrick
3 1902–1909 William G. Tight
4 1909–1912 Edward D. M. Gray
5 1912–1919 David R. Boyd
6 1919–1927 David S. Hill
7 1927–1944 James Fulton Zimmerman
8 1945–1948 John Philip Wernette
9 1948–1968 Thomas L. Popejoy
10 1968–1975 Ferrel Heady
11 1975–1982 William E. "Bud" Davis
12 1982–1984 John Perovich
13 1985–1986 Tom Farer
14 1986–1990 Gerald May
15 1990–1998 Richard Peck
16 1999–2002 William C. Gordon
17 2002–2003 F. Chris Garcia
18 2003–2006 Louis Caldera
19 2006–2007 David W. Harris
20 2007–2012 David J. Schmidly
21 2012–2016 Robert G. Frank
22 2017–2018 Chaouki T. Abdallah
23 2018–present Garnett S. Stokes

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