List of presidents of the University of Florida

The primary campus of the university is located in Gainesville, and it has academic, agricultural, medical and other research facilities in Jacksonville, Orlando, and throughout Florida.

When the Florida Board of Control appointed Sledd as the first president of the new state university on June 7, 1905, he was five months short of his thirty-fifth birthday.

[5] The longest-serving president of the university was John J. Tigert, who held the office for nineteen years from 1928 to 1947.

Since August 2024, Kent Fuchs has been the acting president of the University of Florida.

Fuchs previously served as the twelfth president of the university from January 1, 2015 until February 6, 2023, and was succeeded by Ben Sasse; he was named acting president upon Sasse's resignation on July 31, 2024.

Statue of Albert A. Murphree , second president of the University of Florida, located in the courtyard adjacent to Criser Hall, Peabody Hall and Smathers Library East.