University of Alberta: Chancellors of the University of Alberta

Chancellors of the University of Alberta

It remains no small feat trying to chair the Senate, serve as a member of the Board of Governors, represent the University at ceremonial occasions, preside over Convocation, and connect the community to the University. The Chancellor of the University of Alberta is a volunteer position with wide-ranging responsibilities. Acting as titular head of the University, the Chancellor volunteers his or her time to oversee numerous partnerships, ceremonies, and meetings.

The passing of the University Act in 1906 officially established the University of Alberta, as well as a governing body, faculties, a Registrar, and a Chancellor. The University of Alberta has had seventeen Chancellors. Eric P. Newell is the eighteenth Chancellor of the University of Alberta and has served in this capacity since 2004. The previous Chancellors have included many remarkable and notable individuals including Alberta's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford, Senator Jean Beatrice Forest, and the Honourable Lois Elsa Hole.

Chancellors of the University of Alberta Senate
2004–	Eric P. Newell
2000–2004	John Thomas Ferguson
1998–2000	Lois Elsa Hole
1994–1998	Louis Davies Hyndman
1990–1994	Sandy Auld Mactaggart
1986–1990	Tevie Harold Miller
1982–1986	Peter Savaryn
1978–1982	Jean Beatrice Forest
1974–1978	Ronald Norman Dalby
1970–1974	Louis Armand Desrochers
1964–1970	Francis Philip Galbraith
1958–1964	Laurence Yeomans Cairns
1952–1958	Earle Parkhill Scarlett
1946–1952	George Fred McNally
1942–1946	Frank Ford
1927–1942	Alexander Cameron Rutherford
1926–1927	Nicolas Dubois Dominic Beck
1908–1926	Charles Allan Stuart