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List of presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma

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This list of presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma includes all twenty-two of the people who have served as the president of the University of Central Oklahoma since the institution was founded in 1890.

The University of Central Oklahoma is a public university, created and supported by the State of Oklahoma, and it is a designated "Regional University" within the Regional University System of Oklahoma. The campus of the university is located in Edmond, and it has facilities in Oklahoma City.[1]

The current president of the University of Central Oklahoma is Todd Lamb. Using the university's counting method (acting or "interim" presidents are not numbered), Lamb is the twenty-second president of the university. Twenty men and one woman have previously served as the university's permanent president, and three have served as its interim, or acting, president pending the appointment of a new permanent president.

No. President[2] Years
1 Richard Thatcher 1891–1893
2 George Winans 1893–1894
3 E.R. Williams 1894–1895
4 Edmund Murdaugh 1895–1901
5 Frederick Umholtz 1901–1906
6 Thomas W. Butcher 1906–1908
7 James McLauchlin 1908–1911
8 Charles Evans 1911–1916
9 Grant Grumbine 1916–1917
10 James W. Graves 1917–1919
11 John Gordon Mitchell 1919–1931
12 Malcom Beeson 1931–1935
Cliff Otto 1935
13 John O. Moseley 1935–1939
14 Roscoe R. Robinson 1939–1948
George Huckaby 1948
15 W. Max Chambers 1948–1960
16 Garland Godfrey 1960–1975
17 Bill Lillard 1975–1992
18 George Nigh 1992–1997
19 W. Roger Webb 1997–2011
20 Don Betz 2011–2019
21 Patti Neuhold–Ravikumar 2019–2023
Andrew K. Benton 2023
22 Todd Lamb 2023–present

References

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  1. ^ "About University of Central Oklahoma". University of Central Oklahoma. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  2. ^ "Presidents of the University of Central Oklahoma". University of Central Oklahoma. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.