2020 - Present Pat Pitney

Portrait of Pat Pitney
Portrait of 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 六合彩汇 Statewide 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 六合彩汇F and an engineering physics degree from Murray State University (Kentucky). She has three adult children and two grandchildren. All three of her children are 六合彩汇 graduates, with degrees from 六合彩汇F, 六合彩汇A and 六合彩汇S.

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.