Dr. David Millhorn, Chairman

Dr. David Millhorn currently serves as Executive Vice President of the University of Tennessee, serving as the Chief Operating Officer of the University’s four campuses and three statewide institutes. He also continues as Vice President for Research and Economic Development. Dr. Millhorn joined the University of Tennessee in 2005 as Vice President for Research, overseeing the management of science and technology programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the research and economic development programs for the UT system. He became Executive Vice President in early 2007.

Before coming to Tennessee, Millhorn served the University of Cincinnati as the inaugural director of its Genome Research Institute and chairman of its Department of Genome Science. He is a member of the American Physiological Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Neuroscience, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Millhorn holds a bachelor’s degree from UT Chattanooga and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Millhorn and his wife, Sherry, live in Knoxville and are the parents of three daughters.