Willard L. Boyd

Biography

Willard L. “Sandy” Boyd first came to the University of Iowa as a law professor, and eventually became the university’s fifteenth president from 1969 to 1981, when he left to become president of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He returned to UI as a law professor in 1996 and served as interim president from 2002 to 2003. He is also founder of the university’s Nonprofit Resource Center. Sandy lives in Iowa City.

Willard L. Boyd