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Jim Knowlton

James Arthur Knowlton (born 1960) is an American college athletics administrator and civil engineer who is the former director of athletics for the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Knowlton served as the athletic director for the United States Air Force Academy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Originally from Burlington, Massachusetts, Knowlton graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1982, where he studied engineering and played on the Army Black Knights men's ice hockey team. Knowlton then served in the United States Army, rising to commander and later assistant director at the Army Corps of Engineers. He retired from the Army in 2008 at the rank of colonel.

Beginning in 2003 as deputy athletics director at Army, Knowlton worked as a college athletics administrator. Knowlton later was athletics director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2008 to 2013, the U.S. Air Force Academy from 2015 to 2018, and the University of California, Berkeley from 2018 to 2025. Provided by Wikipedia