File:T Jefferson by Charles Willson Peale 1791 2.jpg|<!--upright=0.90|Thomas Jefferson is the founder of the university File:James Madison.jpg|<!--upright=0.90|James Madison was the 2nd rector of the University of Virginia until 1836 File:Alderman 1920.jpg|<!--upright=0.70|Edwin Alderman was UVA's first president between 1904 and 1931, and instituted many reforms toward modernization File:Secretary Kerry Walks With UVA President Sullivan.jpg|<!--upright=1.1|Teresa A. Sullivan|President Sullivan speaks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in front of The Rotunda (University of Virginia)|The Rotunda in 2013 File:Serpentine wall UVa daffodils 2010.jpg|<!--upright=1.10|One of the serpentine walls File:Rotunda (University of Virginia) - dome.jpg| |archivedate = April 16, 2008}}