 ETSU graduate Barry B. Thompson served as president of Tarleton State University in the 1980s before serving as chancellor of TAMUS from 1994 to 1999.1999 A&M–Commerce graduate Sherilyn Emberton was elected the first female president of Indiana's Huntington University in 2013.In 2015, university alumna Beverlee J. McClure was named president of Adams State University in Colorado.