Dr. Susan B. Mettlen, appointed vice chancellor for Information Infrastructure in July 1996 was UT Knoxville’s first female vice chancellor. She succeeded Dr. Jose Marie Griffiths of the UT School of Library and Information Science, who had served as acting vice chancellor since 1994. When appointed, Mettlen was associate vice president of Information Technology at Southwest Missouri State University. She held the AB degree from Vassar College; a master’s degree from Drury College; the Ed. Specialist degree from Southwest Missouri; and the doctorate in higher and adult education from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Mettlen left abruptly in November 1998 in the wake of a UT audit dealing with possible conflict of interest with the software firm Prosolvia. She left to take a post as vice president of Information Services and Technology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.