Janet Napolitano
President
University of California
Janet Napolitano became the 20th president of the University of California in 2013. She leads a university system with 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program. As UC president, she has launched initiatives to stabilize in-state tuition and achieve financial stability for the University; improve the community college transfer process; achieve carbon neutrality across the UC system by 2025; accelerate the translation of UC research into products and services; and focus UC resources on local and global food issues. President Napolitano has a distinguished record of leading large, complex organizations at the federal and state levels. She served as secretary of homeland security from 2009 to 2013, as governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009, as attorney general of Arizona from 1998 to 2003, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona from 1993 to 1997. She holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.S. from Santa Clara University. In 2014, she was appointed a tenured faculty member of UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, and in 2015 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.