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Napolitano becomes University of California president

On 30 September 2013 former Homeland Security Secretary and two-term Arizona governor Janet Napolitano took office as the 20th president of the University of California, the first woman to hold the post in its 145-year history. A 2017 state audit later criticised her office's handling of reserve funds.

Janet Napolitano (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 30 September 2013 former Homeland Security Secretary and two-term Arizona governor Janet Napolitano took office as the 20th president of the University of California, the first woman to hold the post in its 145-year history. A 2017 state audit later criticised her office's handling of reserve funds.

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  • Janet Napolitano

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    Napolitano becomes University of California president. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.newsroom.ucla.edu — sourcenewsroom.ucla.edu · verified
  2. 2.universityofcalifornia.educhecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: napolitano+university of california · verified
  3. 3.latimes.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: napolitano+university of california · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Napolitano becomes University of California president. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/napolitano-uc-president-2013-09-30

https://factrail.ai/facts/napolitano-uc-president-2013-09-30

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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