James B. Milliken
President, University of Nebraska
Office of the President
3835 Holdrege
Lincoln, NE 68583
(402) 472-8636
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James B. ("J.B.") Milliken is president of the University of Nebraska, a position he has held since 2004. He also holds faculty appointments in the College of Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He previously served as senior vice president for the 16-campus University of North Carolina. Prior to joining UNC, Milliken was vice president of the University of Nebraska.

Milliken is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He earned his law degree from New York University, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. He practiced law on Wall Street before joining the University of Nebraska in 1988. He has also worked in Washington as legislative assistant to Congresswoman Virginia Smith.

Milliken serves as a co-chair of the Council on Competitiveness' Regional Innovation Initiative Leadership Steering Committee, chair-elect of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) Commission on On-line Learning and a former member of the APLU Board of Directors. He also serves on the executive committee of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and the board of directors of the Nebraska State Chamber of Commerce and the Nebraska "Dream It, Do It" workforce initiative. He co-chairs the Nebraska P-16 program and is a member of the Governor's Education Leadership Council and the Board of Academic Advisors of the Omaha-based Building Bright Futures scholarship initiative. Milliken is vice chairman of BioNebraska and a member of the U.S. Strategic Command Consultation Committee and the Business Higher Education Forum. Milliken and his wife, Nana Smith, live with their three children in Lincoln.