List of Texas Tech University presidents

This is a complete list of Texas Tech University presidents of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Presidents

Texas Tech Alumni^†

Grover E. Murray (1966–1976)

#	Name	Term	Notability	References
1	Paul W. Horn	1923–1932	Former National Education Association (NEA) Vice-president. Died in office.	^[1]
2	Bradford Knapp	1932–1938	Former president of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Oklahoma State University) and Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). Second Texas Tech president to die in office.	^[2]
3	Clifford B. Jones	1938–1944
4	William M. Whyburn	1944–1948
5	Dossie M. Wiggins	1948–1952
6	Edward N. Jones	1952–1959
7	Robert C. Goodwin	1959–1966
8	Grover E. Murray	1966–1976
9	M. Cecil Mackey	1976–1979
10	Lauro F. Cavazos^†	1980–1988
11	Robert W. Lawless	1989–1996
12	Donald R. Haragan	1996–2000
13	David J. Schmidly^†	2000–2002
14	Jon Whitmore	2003–2008
15	Guy Bailey	2008–2012
16	Lawrence Schovanec	2012–2013	Interim
16	M. Duane Nellis	2013–present		^[3]