Chronology of Union Pacific Chief Executive Officers and Presidents
2000s
- V. Jim Vena, Chief Executive Officer, Union Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Corporation, August 2023 - present
- Elizabeth F. (Beth) Whited, president, Union Pacific Railroad, August 2023 - present
- Lance M. Fritz, president, Union Pacific Railroad, February 2014 - August 2023; CEO, Union Pacific Railroad, and president and CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, February 2015 - August 2023
- John J. (Jack) Koraleski, president, Union Pacific Railroad, March 2012 - January 2014; CEO, Union Pacific Railroad, and president and CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, March 2012 - January 2015
- James R. (Jim) Young, president, Union Pacific Railroad, January 2003 - March 2012; CEO, Union Pacific Railroad, and president and CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, January 2006 - February 2012
- Ivor J. (Ike) Evans, president, Union Pacific Railroad, 1998 - December 2002
1900s
- J.R. Davis, president, Union Pacific Railroad, 1996-1997
- Ron Burns, president and CEO, Union Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Corporation, January 1995 - December 1995
- Richard (Dick) Davidson, Chairman of the Railroad, 1991 - 1994 and January 1996 - January 2007; CEO, Union Pacific Railroad, 1992 - 1994 and January 1996 - 2005; CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, 1996 - 2005
- Drew Lewis, CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, 1987 - 1995
- Michael Walsh, Chairman of the Railroad, 1986-1990
- R.G. Flannery, president, Union Pacific Railroad, January 1983 - 1986
- John C. (Jack) Kenefick, president, Union Pacific Railroad; October 1971 - January 1982; Chairman of the Railroad, 1982 - 1985; CEO, Union Pacific Railroad, 1982 - 1982
- William S. Cook, CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, 1983 - 1987
- James H. Evans, CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, 1978 - 1982
- Frank E. Barnett, CEO, Union Pacific Corporation, 1969 - 1976
- Edd H. Bailey, president, Union Pacific Railroad, April 1966 - October 1971; CEO, Union Pacific Railroad, April 1966 - 1969
- Arthur E. Stoddard, president, Union Pacific Railroad, March 1949 - January 1965; CEO, Union Pacific Railroad, April 1961 - April 1964
- George Ashby, president, February 1946 - March 1949
- William M. Jeffers, president, October 1937 - February 1946
- Carl R. Gray, president, January 1920 - October 1937
- Robert S. Lovett, president, February 1919 - January 1920
- Charles B. Seger, president, November 1918 - February 1919
- Edgar E. Calvin, president, July 1916 - November 1918
- A.L. Mohler, president, October 1911 - July 1916
- Robert S. Lovett, president, 1910 - October 1911
- Edward H. Harriman, president, 1904-1909
- Horace G. Burt, president, December 1897 - January 1904
* No president of the railroad 1987-1994 and February 1982 – January 1983
1800s
- Silas H.H. Clark, president, June 1892 - June 1897
- Sidney Dillon, president, November 1890 - April 1892
- Charles F. Adams, president, June 1884 - November 1890
- Sidney Dillon, president, March 1874 - June 1884
- John Duff, president, June 1873 - March 1874
- Horace F. Clark, president, March 1872 - June 1873
- Thomas A. Scott, president, April 1871 - March 1872
- Oliver Ames, president, 1865-1871
- John A. Dix, president, October 1863-1865
- W.B. Ogden, president, September 1862 - October 1863