{{short description|American educator and administrator (born 1942)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = L. Joseph Thomas | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|1|16}} | birth_place = Barnesville, Ohio | occupation = Academician, administrator | parents = | spouse = Margaret Gilboy Thomas | children = 2 | education = Carnegie Mellon University&nbsp;<small>(B.S.)</small><br>Yale University&nbsp;<small>(Ph.D.)</small> | known_for = }}

'''Louis Joseph Thomas''' (born January 16, 1942) is an American educator and administrator who is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean Emeritus and professor of operations management of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.<ref name="history">{{cite book |title=Not Just Another School of Business Administration: A History of Graduate Management Education at Cornell University |last=Schmotter |first=James W. |year=1992 |publisher=Cornell University Press }}</ref> He served Johnson as its dean for five years, prior to returning to the faculty in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile.aspx?id=ljt3| title=L. Joseph Thomas profile at Johnson School}}</ref>

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