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Education 2025: MAHONEY, PAUL G.
INTERIM PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Education 2025: MAHONEY, PAUL G.
INTERIM PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
A former dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and a longtime faculty member, Mahoney was named in August as the university’s interim leader. He will serve until U.Va.’s board can find a permanent replacement for former leader Jim Ryan, who resigned as head of the state’s flagship university under pressure from the Trump administration and the U.S. Department of Justice.
A Yale Law and MIT alum, Mahoney joined U.Va.’s law faculty in 1990, serving as dean from 2008 to 2016, and specializes in securities regulation and corporate finance. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ryan left office in mid-July after two Virginia alumni who lead the DOJ’s civil rights division sent a volley of letters to him and other university officials demanding that they prove U.Va. was dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Ryan said that he was leaving to preserve federal funding for research and student financial aid, which according to multiple reports, a DOJ attorney had said would be threatened if Ryan hadn’t stepped down.
