President's Office Records, 1978-1992

Elisabeth Zinser was named a Distinguished Fellow of AAC&U in 2016. Dr. Zinser is a public member of the Oregon State Bar Board of Governors and an active member of the International Women's Forum. She holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, master's degrees from the University of California–San Francisco and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD from the University of California–Berkeley. She has served as president of Southern Oregon University, the University of Idaho, and Gallaudet University; chancellor of the University of Kentucky–Lexington; academic vice chancellor of the University of North Carolina–Greensboro; and dean at the University of North Dakota. She has served on the boards of the American Council on Education and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, as well as the boards of the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Crater Lake National Trust.

She was the University of Idaho's first female president.

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Presidents of the University of Idaho, 1892-2025:

James Harvey Forney (acting), 1891-1892

Franklin Benjamin Gault, 1892-1898

Charles William McCurdy (acting), July 1898-October 1898

Joseph Philip Blanton, 1898-1900

James Alexander MacLean, 1900-1912

William Levi Carlyle (acting) January 1913-April 1914

Melvin Amos Brannon, April 1914-June 1917

Ernest Hiram Lindley, July 16, 1917-August 15, 1920

Alfred Horatio Upham, December 3, 1920-January 24, 1928

Frederick James Kelly, June 1, 1928-June 30, 1930

Melvin Gordon Neale, September 1930-April 1, 1937

Thomas Stoner Kerr (acting), April 1937-September 1937

Harrison Clifford Dale, September 1, 1937-July 30, 1946

Jesse Everett Buchanan, August 1, 1946-June 30, 1954

Donald Richard Theophilus, July 1, 1954-July 31, 1965

Ernest William Hartung, August 1, 1965-June 30, 1977

Richard Dean Gibb, July 1, 1977-June 30, 1989

Elisabeth Ann Zinser, July 1, 1989-June 30, 1995

Thomas O. Bell (interim), July 1, 1995-June 30, 1996

Robert A. Hoover, July 1, 1996-June 30, 2003 (resignation effective)

Brian L. Pitcher (acting), March 2003-June 2003

Gary Michael (interim), June 2003-July 2004

Timothy Peter White, August 2004-June 30, 2008

Steven Daley-Laursen (interim), July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009

Marvin Duane Nellis, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2013

Donald L. Burnett (interim), July 1, 2013-February 28, 2014

Charles Alan Staben, March 1, 2014-June 30, 2019

Cumer Scott Green, July 1, 2019-present