List of Shimer College presidents

This is a list of presidents of Shimer College, from 1853 to the present.

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#	Name	Term begin	Term end	Notes	References
1	Frances Shimer	1853	1896	Title: Principal Former schoolteacher
-	Frank J. Miller	1896	1897	Title: Non-resident principal^[1] Professor at University of Chicago	^[2]
2	William Parker McKee	1897	1930	Title: Dean Former Baptist minister	^[2]
3	Floyd Wilcox	1930	1935	Title: President	^[2]
-	A. Beth Hostetter	1935	1936		^[2]
4	Raymond Culver	1936	1938	Formerly professor of Bible and religious education at Linfield College	^[2]
-	A. Beth Hostetter	1938	1939		^[2]
5	Albin C. Bro	1939	1949	Former staff at University of Chicago Press	^[2]
-	John Russel	1949	1950		^[3]
6	Aaron Brumbaugh	1950	1954	Former Dean of the College of the University of Chicago	^[2]^[4]
7	Francis Joseph Mullin	1954	1968	Former professor of medicine at the University of Chicago	^[2]
8	Milburn Akers	1968	1970	Former editor at the Chicago Sun-Times	^[2]
9	Robert Spencer Long^[2]	1970	1974	Formerly Dean at Roger Williams College
-	Esther G. Weinstein	1974	1975	Formerly Professor of Social Sciences and Associate Dean at Shimer College	^[2]
10	Ralph W. Conant	1975	1978	Urbanologist	^[2]
11	Donald P. Moon	1978	2004	Episcopal priest Former nuclear reactor physicist	^[2]
12	William Craig Rice	2004	2006	Former staff member at the American Academy for Liberal Education
-	Ronald Champagne	2007	2009	Former administrator at Roosevelt University
13	Thomas K. Lindsay	2009	2010	Former director at the National Endowment for the Humanities
-	Edward Noonan	2010	2012	Former architect
14	Susan Henking	2012	2017	Scholar of religious studies

Susan Henking, president of Shimer College 2012–2017 Final President of Shimer College
Edward Noonan, interim president of Shimer College 2010-2012
Thomas Lindsay, president of Shimer College 2009-2010
Ron Champagne, interim president of Shimer College 2006-2008
William Craig Rice, president of Shimer College 2004-2006
Don Moon, president of Shimer College 1978-2004
Esther Weinstein, interim president of Shimer College 1974-1975
Ralph Conant, president of Shimer College 1975-1978
Milburn Akers, president of Shimer College 1968-1970
F.J. Mullin, president of Shimer College 1954-1968
Aaron Brumbaugh, president of Shimer College 1950-1953
John H. Russel, interim president 1949-1950
Albin Bro, president of Frances Shimer College 1939-1949
A. Beth Hostetter, interim president 1935-1936 and 1938-1939
Raymond Culver, president of Frances Shimer Junior College 1936-1938
Floyd Wilcox, president of Frances Shimer Junior College 1930-1935
William Parker McKee, dean of Frances Shimer Academy 1897-1930
Frank Justus Miller, principal of Frances Shimer Academy 1896-1897
Frances Shimer, principal of Mount Carroll Seminary 1853-1896
Frances Shimer and Cindarella Gregory, co-principals of Mount Carroll Seminary 1853-1870

^ Bateman, Newton; Selby, Paul; Hostetter, Charles Linnaeus (1910). "The Frances Shimer School of the University of Chicago". Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, Volume 2. pp. 715–718.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Shimer College (2000). Shimer College Faculty & Alum Directory 2000.
^ "Dr Russel Appointed As Frances Shimer College Acting Head". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1949-09-01.
^ "Something for the Girls". Time. 1950-07-10. Archived from the original on January 31, 2011.