Juliet Villareal Garcia joined The University of Texas system in 1992 as president of The University of Texas at Brownsville, after serving as President of Texas Southmost College (TSC) for six years. She led the drive to establish The University of Texas at Brownsville and to form a unique partnership between the University and Texas Southmost College. Under her leadership, the campus has grown: from 49 acres to more than 460 acres, from a budget of $31 million to $173 million, and from a total fall enrollment of 7,000 to more than 15,000 students. She was named by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 college presidents in 2009 and she has been inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement in Education. Her current service on boards of directors includes the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Academies Policy and Global Affairs Division.