List of presidents of Shimer College

This is a list of presidents of Shimer College, from 1853 to the position's abolition in 2017.

List A "–" indicates that the individual served as interim or acting president. # Image Name Term begin Term end Notes Ref.1Frances Shimer18531896Principal of Mount Carroll SeminaryFormer schoolteacherCindarella Gregory18531870Co-Principal of Mount Carroll Seminary, departed in 1870Former schoolteacher–Frank J. Miller18961897Non-resident principal of Frances Shimer AcademyProfessor at University of Chicago2William Parker McKee18971930Dean of Frances Shimer AcademyFormer Baptist minister3Floyd Wilcox19301935President of Frances Shimer Junior College–A. Beth Hostetter193519364Raymond Culver19361938Formerly professor of Bible and religious education at Linfield College–A. Beth Hostetter193819395Albin C. Bro19391949Former staff at University of Chicago PressPresident of Frances Shimer College–John H. Russel194919506Aaron Brumbaugh19501954Former Dean of the College of the University of Chicago7Francis Joseph Mullin19541968Former professor of medicine at the University of Chicago8Milburn Akers19681970Former editor at the Chicago Sun-Times9Robert Spencer Long19701974Formerly Dean at Roger Williams College–Esther G. Weinstein19741975Formerly Professor of Social Sciences and Associate Dean at Shimer College10Ralph W. Conant19751978Urbanologist11Donald P. Moon19782004Episcopal priestFormer nuclear reactor physicist12William Craig Rice20042006Former staff member at the American Academy for Liberal Education–Ronald Champagne20072009Former administrator at Roosevelt University13Thomas K. Lindsay20092010Former director at the National Endowment for the Humanities–Edward Noonan20102012Former architect14Susan Henking20122017Scholar of religious studiesFinal President of Shimer College

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