1871-73 — Noah P. Gates
1873-75 — Albert W. Bishop
1875-77 — Noah P. Gates
1877-84 — Daniel H. Hill
1884-87 — George M. Edgar
1887-94 — Edward H. Murfee
1894-1902 — John L. Buchanan
1902-05 — Henry S. Hartzog
1905-12 — John N. Tillman
1912-13 — John Hugh Reynolds, acting
1913-39 — John C. Futrall
1939-41 — J. William Fulbright
1941-47 — Arthur M. Harding
1947-51 — Lewis Webster Jones
1952-59 — John Tyler Caldwell
1959-60 — Storm Whaley, acting
1960-74 — David Wiley Mullins
1974-80 — Charles E. Bishop
1980-84 — James E. Martin
1984-90 — Ray Thornton
1990-2011 — B. Alan Sugg
2011-25 — Donald R. Bobbitt
2025 to present — Jay B. Silveria
See also the list of chancellors of the University of Arkansas.