Julie Sullivan Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Julie Sullivan serves as President at Santa Clara University. She serves as President & Trustee at the University of St. Thomas Minnesota. She enrolled at Valdosta State College in Georgia after her junior year in high school and transferred a year later to the University of Florida in Gainesville. She began her studies as a premed major and enjoyed and excelled in numerous science classes, but changed her mind after organic chemistry. She planned to work as a public accountant, and after a six-month internship with what then was Ernst and Whinney, she concluded that she preferred tax accounting over auditing. She served as president of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She was the executive vice president and provost at the University of San Diego and as a professor of business and accounting at the University of California-San Diego, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated with three degrees from the University of Florida-a bachelor's degree in accounting, a master's degree in taxation, and a Ph.D. in business.