Dr.Barry Dunn, the endowed dean of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, director of SDSU Extension, and professor of animal science at South Dakota State University, will become SDSU’s 20th president, the South Dakota Board of Regents announced Monday.

Dunn, who graduated from SDSU with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1975 and later completed two graduate degrees at the Brookings campus, is described by friends as a “servant leader who bleeds Yellow and Blue,” referring to the school’s colors. He becomes president at the Brookings campus this summer, succeeding President David L. Chicoine, who will continue as a faculty member in the university’s Department of Economics.
Dunn lives with his wife, Jane Dunn, on her family’s original homestead north of Brookings, where they raised their two sons. Before returning to college and becoming a professor, Dunn ranched with his family near Mission, S.D, for 17 years.