{"id":181,"date":"2026-02-09T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about-new\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:18:37","slug":"presidents-of-the-uw-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/presidents-of-the-uw-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents of the UW System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>President<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Years in Office<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><tr><td>John C. Weaver<\/td><td>1971\u201377<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>H. Edwin Young<\/td><td>1977\u201380<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Robert M. O\u2019Neil<\/td><td>1980\u201385<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Katharine C. Lyall (acting)<\/td><td>1985\u201386<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kenneth A. Shaw<\/td><td>1986\u20131991<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Katharine C. Lyall (acting)<\/td><td>1991\u201392<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Katharine C. Lyall<\/td><td>1992\u20132004<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kevin P. Reilly<\/td><td>2004\u20132013<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Richard J. Telfer (interim)<\/td><td>January\u2013February 2014<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Raymond W. Cross<\/td><td>2014\u20132020<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tommy G. Thompson (interim)<\/td><td>2020\u2013February 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tommy G. Thompson<\/td><td>February-March 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Michael J. Falbo (interim)<\/td><td>April-May 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jay O. Rothman<\/td><td>June 2022-present<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.wisc.edu\/archives\/exhibits\/campus-history-projects\/chancellors-and-presidents-of-the-university-of-wisconsin-madison\/presidents-of-the-university-of-wisconsin-system\/\">Presidents of the University of Wisconsin System<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Years in Office John C. Weaver 1971\u201377 H. Edwin Young 1977\u201380 Robert M. O\u2019Neil 1980\u201385 Katharine C. Lyall (acting) 1985\u201386 Kenneth A. Shaw 1986\u20131991 Katharine C. Lyall (acting) 1991\u201392 Katharine C. Lyall 1992\u20132004 Kevin P. Reilly 2004\u20132013 Richard J. Telfer (interim) January\u2013February 2014 Raymond W. Cross 2014\u20132020 Tommy G. Thompson (interim) 2020\u2013February 2022 Tommy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6468,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}