Marshall Criser III

Marshall McAllister Criser III (born September 1958) is the president of Piedmont University.

He was previously the president of AT&T Florida, and worked for AT&T and its predecessor, BellSouth, since 1980. He took office as the chancellor of the State University System of Florida on January 6, 2014.

At the time of his appointment as chancellor, Criser was in his fourth year as the Florida House of Representatives speaker's appointee to the Higher Education Coordinating Council. He is a member of the Scripps Research Institute Board of Trustees in California and the Florida Council of 100, where he is a former chairman.

He and his wife, Kimberly, have four daughters. He is the son of Marshall Criser, who served as the president of the University of Florida from 1984 to 1989.