Brain Roberts (2012–Present); Kenneth Young (2009–2012); William Doolittle (interim chair, 2009); Leo Zonn (2006–2009); William Doolittle (2004–2006); Gregory Knapp (1996–2004); William Doolittle (1992–1996); Paul English (1982–1992; George Hoffman (1978–1982); Robert Holz (1972–1978); C. Shane Davies (acting chair, 1971–1972); Robert Mayfield (1967–1971); Lorrin Kennamer (1960–1967); Donald Brand (1949–1960).
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A member of the fourth generation, William E. Doolittle studied with Billie Lee Turner II, earned the Ph.D. in 1979, became a professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin, and has extended the school into the fifth generation: Dean P. Lambert (1992), Andrew Sluyter (1995), Emily H. Young (1995), Eric P. Perramond (1999), Phil L. Crossley (1999), Jerry O. (Joby) Bass (2003), Maria G. Fadiman (2003), and Matthew Fry (2008).
Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov (1938–2003), Author, Professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin.