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On June 27, 2011, Clifton M. “Clif” Smart, III was named interim president of the university. Smart had been General Counsel at Missouri State since Dec. 1, 2007. Over the past three-and-a-half years at Missouri State, Smart had provided legal counsel to the Board, president, faculty, staff and administrators. He also had been involved in many campus-wide initiatives, including leading the university response to the state auditor’s report on Missouri State; serving on the JQH Arena Task Force; developing a comprehensive on-line policy library for the university; and chairing or serving on a variety of searches: vice president for diversity and inclusion, chief financial officer (twice), director of admissions, director of human resources and men’s basketball coach. Smart joined The Strong Law Firm in 1992. He became a shareholder in the firm in 1995 and vice president in 1998. During his 15 years at the firm, Smart’s practice consisted primarily of representing individuals and entities in catastrophic injury, medical malpractice and commercial cases. Smart was selected to the panel of three applicants submitted to the governor for the vacant Missouri Supreme Court positions in 2002 and 2004. In February 2009, he was elected for a five-year term as one of the two lawyer members of the 31st Circuit Judicial Commission. Smart was listed in Best Lawyers in America for 2007-08 in the fields of product liability, personal injury and professional negligence. Prior to joining The Strong Law Firm, Smart worked for two years with the firm of Wright, Lindsey & Jennings in Little Rock, Ark. From 1986-90, he was with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. in Ft. Knox, Ky. Smart graduated from Fayetteville High School in 1979 where he was valedictorian. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in 1983, graduating Summa Cum Laude. In 1986, he graduated with his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law, receiving the second highest GPA (3.95) in school history. While in law school, he received the Leflar Scholarship, was an Oxford Scholar and was on the Law Review. Smart and his wife, Gail, have two sons: Murray, a student at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, and Jim, an incoming freshman at Hamilton College in New York.
Dr. Frank Einhellig Interim Provost
Dr. Jim Baker
Ken McClure
Vice President for Administrative and Information Services
Dr. Earle Doman
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Brent Dunn
Dr. Ken Coopwood
Vice President for University Advancement
Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion
University Administrative Council Clif Smart
Interim President
Dr. Frank Einhellig
Interim Provost
Dr. Jim Baker
V.P. for Research and Economic Development
Dr. Drew Bennett
Chancellor, Missouri State University-West Plains
Dr. Ken Coopwood
V.P. for Diversity and Inclusion
Dr. Earle Doman
V.P. for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
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Interim President Fourth Year at Missouri State
Brent Dunn
V.P. for University Advancement
Steve Foucart
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Penni Groves
Interim General Counsel
Dr. Tammy Jahnke
Dean, College of Natural and Applied Sciences
Paul Kincaid
Chief of Staff/Asst. to President for Univ. Relations
John McAlear
Secretary to the Board of Governors
Ken McClure
V.P. for Administrative and Information Services
June McHaney
Director, Internal Audit
Kyle Moats
Director of Athletics
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