President Term Dr. Joseph S. Clark 1914 -- 1938 Dr. Felton G. Clark 1938 -- 1969 Dr. G. Leon Netterville 1969 -- 1974 Dr. Jesse N. Stone, Jr. 1974 -- 1985 Dr. Joffre T. Whisenton 1985 -- 1988 Dr. Dolores R. Spikes * 1988 -- 1996 Dr. Leon R. Tarver II 1997 -- 2005 Dr. Edward Jackson, (interim) 2005 -- 2006 Dr. Ralph Slaughter 2006 -- 2009 Dr. Ronald Mason Jr. 2010 -- 2015 Dr. Ray Belton 2015 -- present * First female head of any college system in the U.S.
who is the president of southern university baton rouge
Dr. Ray Belton