Joseph A. DiPietro

{{Short description|American academic administrator}}

{{Use American English|date=November 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Joe DiPietro

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| title = 8th President of the University of Tennessee system

| term_start = January 1, 2011

| term_end = November 22, 2018

| predecessor = Jan Simek (interim)

| successor = Randy Boyd (interim)

| birthname = Joseph Anthony DiPietro

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|07|19}}

| birth_place = Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.

| residence = Knoxville, Tennessee

| education = University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (BS, DVM, MS)

| spouse = Deborah Sue Brown

}}

Joseph Anthony DiPietro (born July 19, 1951) is the former president of the University of Tennessee system, who served from 2011 to 2018.{{citation|url=http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/New_UT_President_DiPietro_has_first_day_on_the_job_112828344.html|publisher=WVLT|title=New UT President DiPietro has first day on the job|date=January 3, 2011}}.{{citation|url=http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/jan/03/ut-president-dipietro-welcomed-rock/?print=1|publisher=Knoxnews.com|title=UT President DiPietro welcomed on the 'Rock'|date=January 3, 2011}}.{{citation|publisher=OCLC|title=Di Pietro, Joseph Anthony. The endoparasitic activity of the ivermectin MK-933 in the horse. M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980|date=August 25, 2019|oclc = 7351991}}.{{Cite web|title=About the Office of the President|url=https://president.tennessee.edu/about/|access-date=2020-12-13|website=Office of the President {{!}} University of Tennessee|language=en-US}}