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Joseph Anthony DiPietro (born July 19, 1951) is the former president of the
University of Tennessee system The University of Tennessee system (UT system) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is one of two public university systems, the other being the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR). It consists of four primary campu ...
, who served from 2011 to 2018.


Early life and education

DiPietro was born in
Steubenville, Ohio Steubenville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Ohio River 33 miles west of Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 census. The city's name is derived from Fort Steuben, a ...
to Alphonso and Luisa DiPietro. He graduated from the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...
in 1974 and later received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from
UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine The College of Veterinary Medicine is a graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. External linksCollege of Veterinary Medicine Illinois Veterinary Medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that dea ...
in 1976 and a
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in 1980.


Career

In 2010, after the resignation of John D. Petersen, DiPietro was chosen to be the 25th president of the University of Tennessee and 8th president of the University of Tennessee system.


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