List of presidents of the University of New Mexico

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.

No. Image President Term start Term end Refs.
1 Elias S. Stover 1891 1897
2 Clarence L. Herrick 1897 1901
3 William G. Tight 1902 1909
4 Edward D. M. Gray 1909 1912
5 David R. Boyd 1912 1919
6 David S. Hill 1919 1927
7 James Fulton Zimmerman 1927 1944
8 John Philip Wernette 1945 1948
9 Thomas L. Popejoy 1948 1968
10 Ferrel Heady 1968 1975
11 William E. "Bud" Davis 1975 1982
12 John Perovich 1982 1984
13 Tom Farer 1985 1986
14 Gerald May 1986 1990
15 Richard Peck 1990 1998
16 William C. Gordon 1999 2002
17 F. Chris Garcia 2002 2003
18 Louis Caldera August 1, 2003 January 25, 2006
19 David W. Harris January 25, 2006 May 31, 2007
20 David J. Schmidly June 1, 2007 May 31, 2012
21 Robert G. Frank June 1, 2012 December 31, 2016
22 Chaouki T. Abdallah January 1, 2017 February 28, 2018
23 Garnett S. Stokes March 1, 2018 present