List of presidents of the University of Louisville

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There have been 28 presidents and five interim presidents of what is (or was once a part of) the University of Louisville:^[1]

• Mann Butler 1813–16
• William Tompkins 1816–21
• Charles M. M'Crohan 1821–25
• Francis E. Goddard 1826–29

• Benjamin F. Farnsworth 1837–38
• John Hopkins Harney 1838–40

• John Hopkins Harney 1840–44

• John Rowan 1837–42
• William Garvin 1842–43
• James Guthrie 1843–46

• Samuel Smith Nicholas 1846–47
• James Guthrie 1847–69
• Isaac Caldwell 1869–86
• James Speed Pirtle 1886–05
• Theodore L. Burnett 1905–11
• David William Fairleigh 1911–14
• Arthur Younger Ford 1914–26
• George Colvin 1926–28
• John Letcher Patterson 1928–29 (acting)
• Raymond Asa Kent 1929–43
• Einar William Jacobsen 1943–46
• Frederick William Stamm 1946–47 (acting)
• John Wilkinson Taylor 1947–50
• Eli Huston Brown III 1950–51 (acting)
• Philip Grant Davidson 1951–68

• Woodrow Mann Strickler 1968–72
• William Ferdinand Ekstrom 1972–73 (acting)
• James Grier Miller 1973–80
• William Ferdinand Ekstrom 1980–81 (acting)
• Donald C. Swain 1981–95
• John W. Shumaker 1995–2002
• Carol Garrison 2002 (acting)
• James R. Ramsey 2002–16
• Neville G. Pinto 2016–17 (acting)
• Gregory C. Postel 2017–2018 (acting)
• Neeli Bendapudi 2018–2021
• Lori Stewart Gonzales 2021–2023 (acting)
• Kim Schatzel (2023–present)