FAYETTEVILLE — Julie Cromer Peoples might not have been a household name in Arkansas prior to her appointment as the Razorbacks' interim athletics director Wednesday, but the 46-year-old is well-known throughout college sports circles.
Cromer Peoples has spent the past three years at Arkansas and had assumed a large list of responsibilities in a short time. She managed the department's staff of senior-level employees and the sport administrators assigned to all 19 programs.
She was the department's designated Senior Women's Administrator, replacing the longtime women's AD Bev Lewis, and other than now-ousted AD Jeff Long, she was the only athletics staffer with a chancellor title.