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James Montgomery
James R. Montgomery has B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. in University Administration, with a minor in History, from Columbia Universi...view moreJames R. Montgomery has B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. in University Administration, with a minor in History, from Columbia University in New York. He is the author or co-author of three volumes on the history of UT and over fifty articles on administration and educational research. After service in the Active Army, he joined the staff of UT as its Director of Institutional Research and continued his military career in the Army Reserve. After eight years with UT, he became the Director of Institutional Research at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. In addition, he served as the president of the Southern Association for Institutional Research and the Association for Institutional Research. After a thirty-year academic career, he entered law school at age sixty and obtained his J.D. from Dickinson Law, a part of Penn State University. He then practiced law in Blacksburg for almost thirty years. He and his wife, Mary, have three children and are the proud grandparents of five grandchildren and, at last count, six great-grandchildren.view less