William Turner 

Provost's Office

Distinguished Professor

Biography

William Lofton Turner, Ph.D. holds a Distinguished Professorship of Psychology, Counseling & Family Therapy in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and is special counsel to the president and provost. An expert in family, community, and public health, Turner’s extensive and lauded academic career has included tenured professorships at Vanderbilt University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Kentucky. From 2007 to 2009, he worked for then-Senator Barack Obama as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and continued through his presidency.