University Senate Officers

Chair

Lori Eckhardt

Professor

Chair-Elect

Virginia Davis

Daniel & Josephine Breeden Professor

Secretary

Jaena Alabi

Professor

Secretary-Elect

Rachel Prado

Senior Lecturer

Immediate Past Chair

Lisa Kensler

Leischuck Distinguished Professor, EFLT

University Senate Roster 2024-2025

Parliamentarian - Allison Batts

Department/Officers Name Rotation Year

Chair

Lori Eckhardt

2025

Chair-Elect

Virginia Davis

2025

Secretary

Jaena Alabi

2025

Secretary-Elect

Rachel Prado

2025

Immediate Past-Chair

Lisa Kensler

2025

 

Department/Officers Name Rotation Year

VP for Development

Rob Wellbaum

2025

Dean, Harrison College of Pharmacy

Leigh Ann Ross

2025

Dean, College of Human Sciences

Susan Hubbard

2025

Dean, Harbert College of Business

Jennifer Mueller-Phillips

2025

Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Jason Hicks

2025

Dean, SG College of Engineering

Mario Eden

2025

Dean, COSAM

Ed Thomas

2025

VP of Enrollment Management

Joffery Gaymon

2025

VP for Research

Steven Taylor

2025

 

Department/Officers Name Rotation Year

Provost

Vini Nathan

Continuing

Dean of Libraries

Shali Zhang

Continuing

SGA President

Jack Hilton

2025

GSC President

Esther Akinrinde

2025

Staff Council Chair

Kimberly McCadden

2025

A&P Assembly Chair

Thomas Sawyer

2025

Steering Committee

Andrew Pendola

2026

Steering Committee

L. Octavia Tripp

2025

Steering Committee

Tom Leathem

2026

Steering Committee

J. Brian Anderson

2025

 

Department/Officers Name Rotation Year

Accountancy

Xu (Joyce) Cheng

2026

ACES

Geni Payne

2027

Aerospace Engineering

Roy Hartfield [2nd]

2027

Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology

Wendiam Sawadgo

2027

Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology

Vinicia Biancardi [2nd]

2026

Animal Sciences

Paul Dyce

2027

Architecture

Kevin Moore [2nd]

2026

Art 

Lauren Woods

2025

Aviation

James Birdsong [2nd]

2027

Biological Sciences

Rebecca Riggs

2026

Biosystems Engineering

David Blersch [2nd]

2026

Building Sciences

Jeff Kim

2026

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Regina Gramling

2025

Chemical Engineering

Elizabeth Lipke

2026

Chemistry

Evert Duin

2027

Civil Engineering

Joel Hayworth [2nd]

2027

Communication and Journalism

Kevin Smith

2025

Computer Science & Software Engineering

Sanjeev Baskiyar

2026

Consumer & Design Sciences

Jung Eun Lee

2027

Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences

David Han [2nd]

2025

Curriculum & Teaching

Christopher Clemons

2027

Drug Discovery and Development

Murali Dhanasekaran

2025

Economics

Liliana Stern [2nd]

2027

Educational Foundations, Leadership & Technology

Sara Wolf

2027

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Michael Baginski [2nd]

2027

English

Sunny Stalter-Pace

2025

Entomology & Plant Pathology

John Beckmann [2nd]

2026

Finance

David Cicero

2026

Fisheries & Allied Aquaculture

Nathan Whelan [2nd]

2026

Forestry & Wildlife Science

Robert Gitzen

2027

Geosciences

Stephanie Shepherd

2027

Health Outcomes and Research Policy

Jan Kavvookjian

2026

History

Zachary Schulz [2nd]

2027

Horticulture

Elina Coneva

2025

Hospitality Management

Clark Danderson

2025

Human Development & Family Studies

Diana Samek

2026

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Rich Sesek [2nd]

2025

Industrial Design

David Smith

2026

Kinesiology

Christopher "Brooks" Mobley

2025

Library

Kasia Leousis [2nd]

2026

Management and Entrepreneurship

Liesl Wesson

2025

Marketing

Jeremy Wolter [2nd]

2025

Mathematics and Statistics

Hans Werner Van Wyk [2nd]

2025

Mechanical Engineering

Sabit Adanur [2nd]

2026

Music

Lee Johnson

2025

Nursing

Chris Martin [2nd]

2027

Nutritional Sciences

Kevin Huggins

2025

Outreach

Anna Margaret Goldman

2027

Pathobiology

Katharine Horzmann

2027

Pharmacy Practice

Lena McDowell [2nd]

2027

Philosophy

David Miller

2026

Physics

Luca Guazzotto [2nd]

2026

Political Science

Spencer Goidel

2027

Poultry Science

Amit Morey

2025

Psychology

Alejandro A. Lazarte

2027

ROTC Air Force

LTC Michael Quinn

2027

ROTC Army

LTC Laura Pangallo Fryar

2025

ROTC Naval

Captain Michael Witherspoon

2026

Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work

Danilea Werner

2026

Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Gregory Spray

2027

Supply Chain Management

David Strickland [2nd]

2027

Theatre and Dance

Adrienne Wilson

2026

Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Chance Armstrong

2027

World Languages & Literatures

Kerri Munoz

2026