UM-Flint Chancellor Ruth Person, right, signals her enthusiasm for the task ahead after speaking at her inauguration Friday as the seventh leader of the Flint campus (Photo by Alisha Smith, UM-Flint). Also speaking at the inauguration was President Mary Sue Coleman, left (Photo by Mel Serow, UM-Flint). Person, a U-M alumna, became chancellor in late August. Prior to her appointment by the Board of Regents, she was chancellor of Indiana University, Kokomo, since 1999. She replaced UM-Flint Chancellor Juan Mestas, who retired in July 2007.