On March 1, Garnett S. Stokes officially became the University of New Mexico’s 23rd president and the first female president in UNM’s 129-year history.
As the new Lobo leader, she plans to incorporate many of the lessons she has learned on her journey through higher education. Stokes will soon start charting a course for the university, something she has experience doing. She was provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Missouri. This past summer, she served as that flagship university’s interim chancellor as well. Prior to that, she served as interim president, as well as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, at Florida State University, also a public research university.
Stokes earned a B.A. in psychology from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Georgia in industrial/organizational psychology, where she also was a faculty member and administrator.
