Chronology of Union Pacific Chief Executive Officers and Presidents

2000s

  • V.  Jim Vena, Chief Executive Officer, August 2023 - present
  • Elizabeth F. (Beth) Whited, President, August 2023 - present
  • Lance M. Fritz, February 2014 - August 2023
  • John J. (Jack) Koraleski, March 2012 - January 2014
  • James R. (Jim) Young, January 2003 - March 2012
  • Ivor J. (Ike) Evans, 1998 - December 2002

1900s

  • J.R. Davis, 1996-1997
  • Ron Burns, January 1995 - December 1995
  • Richard (Dick) Davidson, Chairman of the Railroad, 1991-1994
  • Michael Walsh, Chairman of the Railroad, 1986-1990
  • R.G. Flannery, January 1983 -1986
  • John C. (Jack) Kenefick, Chairman of the Railroad, 1982 - 1985
  • John C. (Jack) Kenefick, October 1971 - January 1982
  • Edd H. Bailey, April 1966 - October 1971
  • Arthur E. Stoddard, March 1949 - January 1965
  • George Ashby, February 1946 - March 1949
  • William M. Jeffers, October 1937 - February 1946
  • Carl R. Gray, January 1920 - October 1937
  • Robert S. Lovett, February 1919 - January 1920
  • Charles B. Seger, November 1918 - February 1919
  • Edgar E. Calvin, July 1916 - November 1918
  • A.L. Mohler, October 1911 - July 1916
  • Robert S. Lovett, 1910 - October 1911
  • Edward H. Harriman, 1904-1909
  • Horace G. Burt, December 1897 - January 1904

* No president of the railroad 1987-1994 and February 1982 – January 1983

1800s

  • Silas H.H. Clark, June 1892 - June 1897
  • Sidney Dillon, November 1890 - April 1892 
  • Charles F. Adams, June 1884 - November 1890
  • Sidney Dillon, March 1874 - June 1884
  • John Duff, June 1873 - March 1874
  • Horace F. Clark, March 1872 - June 1873
  • Thomas A. Scott, April 1871 - March 1872
  • Oliver Ames, 1865-1871
  • John A. Dix, October 1863-1865
  • W.B. Ogden, September 1862 - October 1863