Past Department Heads
For each year, the Department Heads are listed alphabetically by their last name.
1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
1890s
Ainsworth E. Blount
Horticulture and Agriculture
1890-1894
T. D. A. Cockerell
Biology
1893-1900
Charles A. Keffer
Agriculture and Horticulture
1898-1899
John D. Tinsley
Biology
1896-1910
C. H. Tyler Townsend
Entomology
1891-1893
George Vestal
Agriculture and Horticulture
1895-1899
Elmer O. Wooton
Biology
1890-1911
1900s
Luther Foster
Animal Husbandry
1908-1911 & 1914-1922
Fabian Garcia
Horticulture
1904-1945
Margaret H. Haggart
Home Economics
1907--1910
Alice Horning
Home Economics
1900-1907
John H. Squires
Agronomy
1909-1912
John J. Vernon
Agriculture and Horticulture
1900-1903
1910s
James W. Clarson
Agricultural Extension Education
1918-1921
O. C. Cunningham
Dairy
1918-1948
John Griffith
Biology
1918-1920
H. S. Hammond
Biology
1912-1914
Arthur H. Hoffman
Agricultural Engineering
1918-1920
Eugene P. Humbert
Agronomy
1912-1917
Luella E. Madson
Home Economics
1919-1921
J. R. Meeks
Dairy
1917-1918
Dayton E. Merrill
Biology
1914-1918
Pearl C. Miller
Home Economics
1910-1919
H. H. Simpson
Animal Husbandry
1912-1913
R. B. Thompson
Poultry
1917-1920
1920s
L. N. Berry
Poultry
1925-1958
Callie May Bliss
Home Economics
1923-1924
C. D. Bohannon
Agriculture and Extension Education
1924-1928
J.H. Bradsley
Poultry
1921-1923
Earl N. Bressman
Agronomy
1922
Raymond F. Crawford
Biology
1925-1955
Grace Dewey
Home Economics
1925-1926
Hugh Gardner
Agricultural and Extension Education
1922-1923 & 1928-1947
Harvey O. Garst
Agricultural Engineering
1924-1932
Blanche Gillmore
Home Economics
1921-1924
Harry L. Kent
Agricultural and Extension Education
1921-1922
J. L. Lantow
Animal Husbandry
1922-1935
Robert L. Middlebrook
Biology
1920-1925
Margaret O'Loughlin
Home Economics
1926-1953
John C. Overpeck
Agronomy
1923-1953
Fred R. Powers
Agricultural Engineering
1920-1922
George Quesenberry
Agronomy
1921-1922
F. E. Uhl
Poultry
1920-1921
A. L. Walker
Poultry, 1923-1925
Agricultural Economics, 1925-1934
Ernest White
Agricultural Engineering
1922-1924
1930s
Percy Cockerill
Agricultural Economics
1934-1954
John H. Knox
Animal Husbandry
1935-1964
1940s
Charles Bourns
Agricultural Engineering
1948-1950
J. V. Enzie
Horticulture
1945-1963
Carl Howard
Agricultural and Extension Education
1947-1961
W. I. Tretsven
Dairy
1948-1951
1950s
Helen Barbour
Home Economics
1953-1961
D. W. Francis
Poultry
1958-1977
Eldon G. Hanson
Agricultural Engineering
1950-1979
Philip J. Leyendecker
Agricultural Services
1953-1960
S. R. Skaggs
Dairy
1951-1962
H. R. Stucky
Agricultural Economics
1954-1965
J. Gordon Watts
Botany and Entomology
1955-1974
John Marshall White
Agricultural Information
Agriculture Editor
1953-1974
Marvin L. Wilson
Agronomy
1958-1963
1960s
Odelio Baca
Extension State Supervisor (Men)
1964-1971
Alton L. Bailey
Agricultural Services
1969-1981
A. A. Baltensperger
Agronomy
1963-1976
Dorman Brookey
4-H Youth Development Program Leader
1966-1980
Elsie Cunningham
Extension State Supervisor (Women)
1964-1967
George R. Dawson
Agricultural Economics
1965-1985
Paul C. Duffield
Agricultural Services
1960-1969
Bessie D. Fick
Home Economic
1961-1966
Evelyn Hollen
Home Economics
1969-1973
James D. McComas
Agricultural and Extension Education
1961-1966
D. D. Miller
Dairy
1962-1977
A. L. Neumann
Animal, Range, and Wildlife Sciences
1964-1971
Richardo Pino
District Supervisor
1961-1963
Helen Stock
Extension State Supervisor (Women)
1969-1970
Leon Wagley
Agricultural and Extension Education
1966-1991
Fred Widmoyer
Horticulture
1963-1982
1970s
George H. Abernathy
Agricultural Engineering
1979-1986
Toribio Apodaca
Northern District Director
1976-1986
Keith Austin
Community Rural Development State Program Leader
1972-1980
Margery Brooks
Home Economics
1973-1980
Morris D. Finkner
Experimental Statistics
1970-1984
John Gaume
District Supervisor
1971-1972
Alice Haddock
Northern District Director
1971-1982
E. H. Huddleston
Botany and Entomology
1974-1984
Koert J. Lessman
Agronomy
1976-77
A. B. Nelson
Animal and Range Sciences
1971-1985
Norman L. Newcomer
Agricultural Communication
1974-1985
Merle H. Niehaus
Agronomy
1978-1984
S. D. Schemnitz
Fishery and Wildlife Sciences
1975-1981
Irvin Williams Skelton
Agriculture Program Leader
1976-1980
Kathy Treat
Extension Home Economics
State Program Leader
1977-1980
Edward H. Wallace
Eastern District Director
1972-1983
1980s
Paul P. Biemer
Experimental Statistics
1986-1990
Ron Cox
Hospitality Tourism Services
1988-1992
Merrilyn Cummings
Home Economics
1984-1987
LeRoy Daugherty
Agronomy and Horticulture
1986-1997
Charles Davis
Fishery and Wildlife Sciences
1981-1996
Robert Del Campo
Home Economics
1988-1993
Billy D. Dictson
Eastern District
1988-1997
Michael English
Extension Plant Sciences
1986-1997
Richard Glaze
Extension Computer Application
1988-1991
Allie Sue Gottwald
Extension Home Economics and Community Development
1986-1988
John Hampton
4-H Youth Development
1985-1986
Paul D. Hay
Eastern District Director
1983-1987
Grant Kinzer
Entomology, Plant Pathology,
and Weed Science
1985-2007
Mildred Latini
Northwestern District
1980-1986
Palemon Martinez
Northeastern District Director
1982-1987
John G. Mexal
Horticulture
1983-1986
Melchor Ortiz
Experimental Statistics
1984-1985
John C. Owens
Entomology and Plant Pathology
1984-1985
Bobby Rankin
Animal and Range Sciences
1986-2000
Lynn Robbins
Agricultural Economics
1986-1988
Anthony Romo
Extension Area Director
1986-1987
Kenneth E. Sabo
4-H Program Leader
1986-1989
James R. Sais
Northern District
1987-1992
Charles Siepel
Southwest District & Hidalgo County Program Director
1986-2005
1990s
Deborah Breiter
Hotel, Restaurant, and
Tourism Management
1999-2000
Ron Byford
Extension Plant Sciences
1997-2007
Donald Caccamise
Fishery Wildlife Sciences
1998-2006
Terry Canup
Agricultural Communications
1996-2005
Gerald Chacon
Northern District
1993-2006
Thomas Dormody
Agricultural & Extension Education
1994-2009
David Faulkenberry
Experimental Statistics
1991-1994
I. Miley Gonzales
Agricultural & Extension Education
1991-1994
Wendy Hamilton
Extension Program Development
and Accountability
1998-2008
Jess Holloway
4-H & Youth Development
1994-2003
Dan R. Liesner
Southwest District Director
1990-2004
Mary Ellen McKay
Extension Home Economics director
1990
Family & Consumer Science
1995
Extension Home Economics
1990-1998
Family and Consumer Sciences
1995-1998
Patrick J. Moreo
Hotel, Restaurant, and
Tourism Management
1994-1998
Ronald Parker
Extension Animal Sciences
and Natural Resources
1991-2005
Roberta Rios
Northern District Director
2006-2009
Ann Vail
Family Consumer Science &
Extension Family Consumer Science
1999-2005
John Waelti
Agricultural Economics
and Agricultural Business
1990-2001
2000s
Chris Allison
Extension Animal Sciences
and Natural Resources
2005-2012
Martha Archuleta
Extension Home Economics Head
2005-09
Family & Consumer Sciences
2004-09
Jeff Bader
Northern District Director Head
2009-2014
J. Michael Cerletti
Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management
2000-2002
James Fisher
Agronomy and Horticulture
2000-2004
Jeanne Gleason
Agricultural Information - Interim
1986-1987
Media Productions and Innovative
Media, Research & Extension
2005-2020
Natalie P. Goldberg
Extension Plant Sciences
2007-2017
Janet Green
Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management
2002-2014
Frank Hodnett
Extension 4-H
2004-2012
Agricultural & Extension Education
2012-2018
Greg Mullins
Plant and Environmental Sciences
2005-2009
Octavio Ramirez
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business
Extension Economics
2003-2008
Tim Ross
Animal and Range Sciences
2007-2012
Charles Siepel
SW District Dept. Head
2005-2012
David Thompson
Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Sciences & Poultry
2007-2010
Raul Valdez
Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology
2006-2010
Mark Wise
Animal and Range Sciences
2003-2007
2010s
Greg Blanch
Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management
2014-2015
Cynda Clary
Agricultural and Extension Education
2009-2012 (Interim)
Terry Crawford
Agricultural Economic and Agricultural Business
2008-2015
Esther Devall
Family Consumer Sciences
2010-2017
Glenn Duff
Animal and Range Science
2015-2017
Jerry Hawkes
Extension Animal Science and Natural Resources
2013-2017
Bruce Hinrichs
Eastern District Director
1997-2018
Richard Pratt
Plant and Environmental Sciences
2011-2015
Jill Schroeder
Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Sciences
2011- 2012 (Interim)
Kathryn Stoner
Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology
2014-2018
2020s
Steve Beck
Extension 4H & Youth Development
2016-2020
Laura Bittner
Extension 4H & Youth Development
2020-2024 (Interim)
Priscilla Bloomquist
Family And Consumer Sciences
2017-2019 (Interim)
Barbara Chamberlin
Innovative Media
2020 –
Tom Dean
Southwest District Director Head
2012 –
Efren Delgado
Family And Consumer Sciences
2023 –
Martha Desmond
Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology
2010-2013 (Interim)
Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology
2024 –
Steve Fraze
Agricultural Economic and Agricultural Business
2023-2024 (Interim)
Agricultural and Extension Education
2020-2025
Matt Gompper
Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology
2019-2024
Jean Hertzman
School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
2016 –
Anowar Islam
Extension Plant Science
2023 –
Shanna Ivey
Animal Range Science and Ext. Animal Science and Natural Resources
2017 –
Patrick Kircher
Eastern District Director Head
2024 –
Jay Lillywhite
Agricultural Economic and Agricultural Business
2015-2022
Steve Loring
Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology
2013-2014 (Interim)
Agricultural and Extension Education
2019-2020 (Interim)
Allen Malone
Extension 4H & Youth Development
2024-2025 (Interim)
Leigh Ann Marez
Eastern District Director Head
2018-2024
Merranda Marin
Family And Consumer Sciences
2022-2023 (Interim)
Robert Moreno
Family And Consumer Sciences
2020-2022
Carlos Carpio Ochoa
Agricultural Economic and Agricultural Business
2024 –
Ricardo Ramirez
Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Sciences
2023 –
F. Richie Roberts
Agricultural and Extension Education
2025 –
Rolston St. Hilaire
Plant and Environment Sciences & Extension Plant Sciences
2015-2022
Gerald “Jerry” Sims
Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology
2018-2019 (Interim)
Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Sciences
2012-2022
Patrick Torres
Northern District Director Head
2014-2021
Christina Turner
Northern District Director Head
2021 –