Thomas C. Galligan Jr. (born September 3, 1955) is an American lawyer, legal scholar, administrator and educator who was the Interim President of Louisiana State University. He served as the eighth president of Colby-Sawyer College and as dean and professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, where he taught torts and admiralty. Galligan grew up in Montclair, New Jersey with the dream of becoming a lawyer. He graduated from Montclair Kimberley Academy in 1973.