Amy Parsons

Amy Parsons is an American attorney, university administrator, and corporate executive who is the 16th President of Colorado State University (CSU). She assumed office on February 1, 2023. An alumna of CSU, Parsons has an extended history with the university, having served for 16 years in various senior executive roles within the institution and CSU System prior to her presidency.

Parsons earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from CSU in 1995 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado in 1999. She would then work as a commercial litigation attorney in Denver for Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck before returning to CSU in 2004 in as the deputy general counsel and associate legal counsel for CSU. In 2009, she become the vice president for university operations and in 2015, she then became the executive vice chancellor of the CSU System. Then in October 2020, Parson would leave the University to become the CEO of a Mozzafiato, LLC, an Denver-based e-commerce company focused on Italian beauty products.In

In December of 2021, the CSU Board of Governors selected Parsons as the sole finalist of search for a new President of CSU. The announcement of her appointment was met with significant criticism from faculty and staff who cited concerns about a non-transparent selection process that named her as the sole finalist and her lack of a traditional academic and research background, which they argued was essential for leading a top-tier research university.

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