2020 - Present Pat Pitney
The University of Alaska Board of Regents selected Pat Pitney to serve as the university鈥檚 interim president beginning on Aug.1, 2020. The University of Alaska Board of Regents has upped President Pat Pitney鈥檚 status from interim to permanent. Regents unanimously voted for the change on Feb. 25 at the end of a 2-day board meeting.
Previously Pitney served as the state鈥檚 Director of the Division of Legislative Finance. She was the former Vice Chancellor of Administration, University of Alaska Fairbanks and worked at 澳门六合彩开奖appStatewide for 17 years. In all, Pitney spent 23 years with the University of Alaska before leaving to serve as the State Budget Director in the administration of former Governor Bill Walker.
Pitney moved to Fairbanks in 1987 from Billings, Montana. She earned her MBA from UAF and an engineering physics degree from Murray State University (Kentucky). She has three adult children and two grandchildren. All three of her children are 澳门六合彩开奖appgraduates, with degrees from UAF, UAA and UAS.
Before moving to Alaska, she was a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team and won a gold medal in women鈥檚 air rifle.