Listing of the Regents of the University of Alaska
Philip Ernst
1917-1919 Nome			Owner Alaska Printing Co. and gold dredging co., Grand President of AK Pioneers-1911
Albert R. Heilig
1917-1921 Fairbanks			1st Chair of Trustees, Wickersham's court clerk 1900-05, attorney.
Harriet Belle Hess
1917- 1951 Fairbanks		Hess Rec. Ctr. Hess Hall Hess Village	served 24 years, Hess Commons named after her, Democratic National Committeewoman 1944-1948. More Information...
Dr. Louise S. Keller
1917-1921 Skagway			Dentist, editor Haines Pioneer Press, Mayor of Skagway.
Henry B. Parkins
1917-1918 Fairbanks			Manager of Waechter Bros. Cold Storage in Fairbanks. Died on the Princess Sophia in 1918.
Anton J. Nordale
1917- 1927 Fairbanks			Mayor of Fairbanks 1918-20, member of Territorial Legislature 1918-1920, hotelier.
Frank L. Shaw
1917-1921 Anchorage			Editor Anchorage Daily Times
Richard C. Wood
1917-1919 Fairbanks			President 1st National Bank of Fbks., former partner of E.T. Barnette.
John A. McIntosh
1918-1934 Fairbanks		McIntosh Hall	Owned McIntosh and Kubon Drug Store, McIntosh Hall named for him. More Information...
Kelly H. Claude
1918-1921 Fairbanks			Clerk of District Court 4th Division
Paul J. Rickert
1918-1923 Fairbanks			Member of Territorial Legislature 1920, Farmer.
Robert Bloom
1921-1925 Fairbanks			Owner clothing store. More Information...
Robert Lavery
1921-1925 Fairbanks			Owner grocery and general merchandise store.
Milton D. Snodgrass
1921-1929 Fairbanks			Member of Territorial Legislature 1923-25 and 1953-55, received UA honorary degree in 1961, established Mat-Su Valley Experiment Station.
Morton E. Stevens
1921-1932 Fairbanks		Stevens Hall	Board President, Stevens Hall on UAF campus named for him, attorney. More Information...
Leopold David
1923-1925 Anchorage			U.S. Commissioner 1910-21, first elected mayor of Anchorage 1920-22.
Edward M. Keys
1923-1928 Anchorage			Member of Territorial House of Representatives 1923-25, Miner
Edward F. Medley
1923-1928 Cordova			Attorney, U.S. Commissioner, partner of Austin Lathrop.
Thomas A. Marquam
1925-1929 Fairbanks			Mayor of Fairbanks 1920-25, attorney. More Information...
Ralph E. Robertson
1925-1933 Juneau			Signer of Alaska Constitution, attorney:original partner of Robertson, Monagle, Eastaugh and Annis. City councilman and mayor of Juneau 1920-23. More Information...
Arthur A. Shonbeck
1925-1936 Anchorage			Business man. More Information...
John H. Kelly
1928-1939 Fairbanks			Owner accounting firm.
George J. Love
1928-1935 Fairbanks			U.S. Commissioner for Valdez, attorney.
John W. Gilson
1929-1949 Valdez			President First National Bank of Valdez.
Andrew Nerland
1929-1956 Fairbanks		Nerland Hall	Board President 1934-56,received honorary UA degree in 1952, Nerland Hall at UAF named for him, mayor in Fairbanks 1915, member of territorial legislature 1917-37 and 1945-49, businessman. More Information...
Austin E. "Cap" Lathrop
1932-1950 Fbks, Cordova		Lathrop Hall	Lathrop Hall at UAF named for him, businessman (theaters), mayor of Cordova, Territorial House of Representatives 1920-22. More Information...
Grace Wickersham
1933-1941 Juneau		Wickersham Hall	Wife of Judge James Wickersam, school teacher. One wing of Wickersham Hall at UAF named for her. More Information...
George A. Lingo
1934-1943 Fbks, McKinley Pk.			UA class of 1927, member of Territorial Legislature 1933-35, registrar of U.S. Land Office for Alaska. More Information...
Martin L. Harrais
1936-1937 Valdez			Attended only 1 meeting prior to death; at that meeting he introduced the "Harrais Resolution" calling for the formation of the Geophysical Institute, Mayor of Chena, U.S. Commissioner at Valdez. More Information...
Thomas M. Donahoe
1937-1947s Cordova,Anch.			Attorney. Youngest member of the Board of Regents More Information...
Orville D. Cochran
1939-1948 Nome			Mayor of Nome 1910-14, Territorial Representative 1921-23, Territorial Senate 1937-47.
Walter T. Stuart
1941-1955 Ketchikan		Stuart Hall	Stuart Hall named for him, Mayor of Valdez, electrician. More Information...
Michael J. Walsh
1943-1959 Nome		Walsh Hall	Territorial Representative 1945-47, received UA honorary degree in 1958, Walsh Hall at UAF named for him, City Clerk of Nome, signer of Alaska Constitution. More Information...
Leo F. Rhode
1948-1955 Homer			UA class of 1940, member of Alaska Legislature 1961-62 and 1975-78, Mayor of Homer. More Information...
William A. O'Neill
1948-1973 Anchorage		O'Neill Building	Board President 1968-72, UA class of 1934,O'Neill Building named for him. More Information...
Earl C. Albrecht
1949-1958 Juneau			Doctor, first Alaska Commissioner of Health, received UA honorary degree 1964. More Information...
Elmer E. Rasmuson
1950-1969 Anchorage		Rasmuson Library	Board President 1956-68, received UA honorary degree in 1970,Rasmuson Library at UAF named for him, Mayor of Anchorage 1964-67, Banker-National Bank of Alaska More Information...
Essie R. Dale
1951-1953 Fairbanks			State Representative 1949 (not confirmed by legislature), store owner .
Audrey Loftus
1953-1954 Fairbanks			UA class of 1949, U.S. Commissioner, coroner, justice of the peace and notary public at Chatanika. More Information...
Dr. Philip Moore
1954-1965 Sitka			Orthopedic surgeon, received UA honorary degree in 1967.
Louise V. Kellogg
1955 Palmer			Not confirmed by legislature, owner of Spring Creek Farm, member Alaska Pacific University Board of trustees for 20 years, honored on Memorial Day 2001 as Alaska's oldest surviving veteran of World War II. More Information...
Roland H. Stock
1955-1956 Anchorage			Owner R.H. Stock, builder of many highways in territory.
Helen (Linck) Atkinson
1954-1963 Fairbanks			UA class of 1936, first female civil engineering graduate, wife of regent Conrad Frank. More Information...
Arthur Leslie Nerland
1956-1961 Fairbanks			Son of Andrew Nerland; upon death of his father was appointed for the remainder of father's term, received UA honorary degree in 1981, businessman, Fairbanks mayor 1938-40, delegate to Alaska Constitutional Convention. More Information...
Lucy H. Cuddy
1957-1963 Anchorage		Cuddy Center	Banker, Cuddy Center named at UAA for her. More Information...
Frank B. Heintzleman
1957-1959			Territorial Governor of Alaska 1953-57.
John J. Conway
1959-1967 Sitka			Banker, 1st National Bank of Sitka, National Bank of Alaska, Mayor of Sitka 1940-42.
Boyd C. Harwood
1959-1964 Nome		Harwood Hall	Active in Alaska politics he was elected to the board of directors of the Miners & Merchants bank in 1957; elected president and chairman of the board of the bank in 1960; he served as a member of the UA Board of Regents from 1959-1964. More Information...
Dr. Arthur J. Schaible
1961-1969 Fairbanks			Doctor, received UA honorary degree 1972, husband of Regent Grace Schaible. More Information...
Robert E. MacFarland
1963-1975 Anchorage			Board President 1972-74, received UA honorary degree in 1977, resigned during 2nd term, President of Alaska State Federation of Labor.
Dorthy A. Wrede (Wilbur)
1963-1971 Fairbanks			Miner, business owner. Third generation, Fairbanks-born pioneer-Alaskan, Dorothy Geis Wrede, was appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska by Governor William Egan for a full 8-year term in 1963. Dorothy watched the growth of the university from its beginning in 1917. One of its first five students roomed and boarded with her family due to a lack of dormitory space. More Information...
Ruth S. McLean
1964-1967 Nome			Deputy U.S. Marshall, owner of Modern Dry Cleaners & Laundry, member of state board of eduction.
William M. Whitehead
1965-1966 Juneau		Whitehead Building	Father of Regent Virginia Whitehead Breeze, Whitehead Building at UAS named for him, member of House of Representatives 1963-64, established Juneau Medical & Surgical Clinic. More Information...
James Nolan
1967-1973 Wrangell			Territorial Representative 1947-51, delegate to Constitutional Convention, received UAS honorary degree in 1983, owner of Wrangell Drug Store.
Everett Boulden
1967-1968 Ketchikan			Executive with Ketchikan Pulp, resigned and moved out of state.
Edith Bullock
1967-1975 Kotzebue,Anch.			Territorial Legislator, founder of Bullock Award through UA Foundation, called "Tugboat Queen of the Arctic". named "Outstanding Alaskan" in 1967, received UAA honorary degree in 1976.
Alan D. "Robbie" Robertson
1968-1975 Ketchikan		Robertson Building	Robertson Building in Ketchikan named for him, employee of First National Bank of Ketchikan. More Information...
Dr. Hugh B. Fate Jr.
1969-1985 Fairbanks			Board President 1977-79, received UAF honorary degree in 1988, dentist, husband of Regent Mary Jane Fate.
Brian J. Brundin
1969-1977 Anchorage			Board President 1975-77, UA class of 1961 magna cum laude, attorney.
Vide Bartlett
1971-1976 Fairbanks			Wife of U.S. Senator Bob Bartlett. More Information...
Frank M. Doogan
1973-1974 Juneau			Attorney, resigned from board.
Roy H. Madsen
1973-1974 Kotzebue,Anch.			Attorney, resigned to take judgeship.
Ronald W. Wendte
1974-1976 Juneau			In 1974 when selected as UA's first student regent, Wendte was a graduate student working toward a Master's degee in public administration. Wendte served one term in the Legislature in 1983-84. He is a former banker and former president of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce.
Edward B. Rasmuson
1975-1989 Anchorage			Board President 1979-82, received UAF honorary degree in 2000, son of Regent Elmer Rasmuson, banker - National Bank of Alaska. More Information...
Donald B. Abel Jr.
1975-1989 Juneau			Board President 1983-84 More Information...
Sam Kito Jr.
1975-1983 Anchorage
Margaret J. Hall
1975-1983 Kodiak			Schoolteacher
Christopher R. Cooke
1975-1977 Bethel			Attorney, resigned to take judgeship.
Mildred Banfield
1976-1983 Juneau		Banfield Hall	Member Alaska Legislature, received UAS honorary degree in 1986, Banfield Hall at UAS named for her. More Information...
Bruce Lemke
1976 Fairbanks- UAJ			Student Regent - was not confirmed by legislature. Lemke, a retired logger, construction worker and commercial fisherman lives in Anchorage. He ran for the governor's office in 1982 and 2002, as well as the state House of Representatives in the late 1980s.
Gerard R. LaParle
1976-1977 Fairbanks - UAF			LaParle graduated in May 1977 with degrees in public administration and economics. He resigned the board position early to attend law school in Colorado, after which he became a successful and prominent divorce attorney in Fairbanks.
Conrad G. B. Frank
1976-1979 Fairbanks			UA class of 1949, husband of Regent Helen Atkinson. More Information...
John W. Schaeffer
1977-1979 Kotzebue			Chair of NANA
Jeffry J. Cook
1977-1983 Fairbanks			Board President 1982-83.
Charles R. Webber
1977-1979 Anchorage			Resigned to take position of State Commissioner of Commerce & Economic Development.
Ric Davidge
1977-1978 Juneau			Student Regent
Sharilyn Mumaw
1978-1980 Anchorage			Student Regent
Herbert C. Lang
1979-1985 Anchorage			Board President 1984-85
Thomas J. Miklautsch
1979-1987 Fairbanks
John T Shively
1979-1984 Kotzebue			Resigned to become Chief of Staff to Governor Sheffield 1983-1985, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources 1995 - 2000,appointed to the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Board of Trustees in January 1999 More Information...
Timothy Burgess
1980-1982 Fairbanks-UAF			Student Regent
Sara T. Hannan
1982-1984 Fairbanks-UAF			Student Regent
Ann T. Parrish
1983-1991 Anchorage			Board President 1987-89, 2003 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence, active in UAA’s College of Fellows and serves as First Vice President of the UA Foundation Board of Trustees. She is a 1978 graduate of UAA. More Information...
Ruth E. Burnett
1983-1991 Fairbanks			Former Mayor of Fairbanks, Businesswoman.
Roy M. Huhndorf
1983-1991 Anchorage			Board President 1985-87, received honorary degree from UAA in 1991, chair of CIRI. More Information...
Gordon E. Evans
1983-1991 Juneau			Board president 1989-90, attorney.
Willie L. Hensley
1984-1987 Anchorage
Lynn B. Shaver
1984-1986 Anchorage-UAA			Student Regent
Grace Berg Schaible
1985-1987 Fairbanks			UA class of 1949, former secretary to Charles Bunnell, received UAF honorary degree in 1991, attorney, resigned to become Attorney General of Alaska. More Information...
Robert F. Williams
1985-1993 Kenai			Board President 1990-93.
Lance P. Bousley
1986-1987 Juneau-UAS			Student Regent, resigned after graduating in spring 1987
John C. Sackett
1987-1988 Ruby		Sackett Hall	Resigned from BOR in 1988, Sackett Hall at Kuskowkwim Campus named for him, member of Alaska Legislature, chair of Doyon. More Information...
Mark H. Helmericks
1987-1995 Prudhoe Bay			1984 Rhodes Scholar, youngest full term regent ever appointed (28 years old).
Susan A. Stitham
1987-1995 Fairbanks			Member State Board of Education, H.S. English Teacher. More Information...
Judith J Graham
1987-1989 Anchorage-UAA			Student Regent
Marcus R. Clapp
1988-1989 Fairbanks			Resigned, attorney.
Virginia W. Breeze
1989-1997 Anch, Juneau			Board Vice President 1993-1995. Daughter of Regent William Whitehead.
Morris Thompson
1989-1993 Fairbanks		Thompson Drive	CEO of Doyon, killed in Alaska Airlines crash in California. Thompson Drive is named in honor of the late Native leader Morris Thompson and his family. The Department of Transportation project is scheduled for completion in 2005. More Information...
Eric Forrer
1989-1997 Juneau			Fisherman, Carpenter
Jack Van Hatten III
1989-1990 Fairbanks-UAF			Student Regent, resigned.
Mary F. Reeve
1990-1991 Anchorage-UAA			Student Regent
Dr. Sharon D. Gagnon
1991-1999 Anchorage		Gagnon Lane	Board President 1993-96, Sharon Gagnon Lane at UAA named for her, served on Harvard University's Board of Overseers.
Lew M. Williams
1991-1999 Ketchikan			Received UAS honorary degree in 1981, journalist, newspaper publisher.
Michael P. Kelly
1991-1999 Fairbanks			Board President 1996-98, CEO of Golden Valley Electric Assoc.
Joseph R. Henri
1991-1999 Anchorage			Former Commissioner of Administration for Alaska, attorney.
Timothy Lamkin
1991-1993 Wasilla-UAF			Student Regent, served as Vice President of Board 1993.
Mary Jane Fate
1993-2001 Fairbanks			Received UAF honorary degree in 1992, wife of Regent Hugh Fate.
Danforth R. Ogg
1993-2001 Kodiak			Attorney, fisherman, Mayor of Kodiak.
Scott Otterbacher
1993-1995 Palmer-UAF			Student Regent
Chancy Croft
1995-2003 Anchorage			Board Chair 2002-03, member of Alaska Legislature,representative and senator, president of Senate, attorney.
Joe J. Thomas
1995-2003 Fairbanks			Manager of Local Laborers 942, life-long Alaskan
Joe L. Hayes Jr.
1995-1997 Fairbanks-UAF			Student Regent, first African-American to serve on board.
Elsa F Demeska
1997-2005 Juneau			Businesswoman More Information...
Michael J. Burns
1997-2005 Anchorage			Board Chair, 1998-2001, banker, KeyBank
Annette Nelson-Wright
1997-1999 Juneau-UAS			Student Regent, served as secretary 1998-99.
Robert A. Malone
1999-2000 Anchorage			President Alyeska Pipeline, resigned and left state to work for BP.
Brian D. Rogers
1999-2007 Fairbanks			Former UAF student, VP for Finance at UA, member of Alaska Legislature
Frances H. Rose
1999-2007 Anchorage			UAA class of 1975
Joseph E. Usibelli Jr.
1999-2007 Healy			UAF class of 1981, president Usibelli Coal Mine.
Joshua B. Horst
1999-2001 Juneau-UAS			Student Regent UAS graduate 2001.
Dr Kevin O. Meyers
2000-2004 Anchorage			Senior VP Phillips Petroleum/Conoco Phillips, Dr. from MIT. Resign from board position 2004.
Marlene Johnson
2001-2002 Juneau			Senior board member of Seaalaska, citizen of the year by AFN in 1995, born and raised in Hoonah, Alaska Legislature did not confirm BOR appointment. More Information...
Mark Begich
2001-2002 Anchorage			Mayor of Anchorage, Anchorage assembleman for 10 years, member of Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, Alaska Legislature did not confirm BOR appointment. More Information...
Joseph Hardenbrook
2001-2002 Fairbanks-UAF			National Merit Scholar, founding member AK Renaissance Project, UAF graduate 2001, Alaska Legislature did not confirm BOR appointment. Main organizer/researcher for UA's Creating Alaska Project.
Mary K. Hughes
2002-2009 Anchorage			UA class of 1971, Anchorage Municipal Attorney 1995-2000, member UA Foundation Board.
Byron I. Mallott
2002-2003 Juneau			UAA class of 1995,Exec. Director of AK Permanent Fund Corporation 1995-2000, Sealaska Corp 1972-92, Alaska Air Group member, honorary Doctor of Humanities from UAS in 1984. More Information...
Derek Miller
2002-2003 Fairbanks-UAF			Student Regent UA class of 2003.
Michael Snowden
2003-2009 Sitka			UA class of 1969, businessman, lifelong Alaskan, sea captain.
Cynthia Henry
2003-2011 Fairbanks			UA class of 1980, busniesswoman, member and president of FNSB School Board, Member of FNSB assembly.
James C. Hayes
2003-2011 Fairbanks			UA class of 1970, pastor, City Council Member, Fairbanks Mayor 1992-01, rec'd distinguished alumnus award 2002.
David J. Parks
2003-2005 Palmer-UAA			Student Regent, interned for Senator Murkowski.
Carl Marrs Jr.
2005-2013 Anchorage			Former CEO of CIRI; life-long Alaskan; More Information...
Robert R. Martin
2005-2013 Juneau			UA Class of '69 ­ BS in Electrical Engineering; employed by BIA; life-long Alaskan.
Jeffrey B. Staser
2005-2013 Anchorage			Federal Co-chair of Denali Commission. 4th generation Alaskan.