University Presidents
![Clark Hinman portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/01hinman-360x200.gif)
Clark T. Hinman
1st President of Northwestern:
1853 – 1854
![Henry S. Noyes portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/02noyes-360x200.gif)
Henry S. Noyes
President ad interim:
1854 – 1856;
1860 – 1867
![Randolph S. Foster portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/03foster-360x200.gif)
Randolph S. Foster
2nd President of Northwestern:
1856 – 1860
![Henry S. Noyes portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/02noyes-360x200.gif)
Henry S. Noyes
President ad interim:
1854 – 1856;
1860 – 1867
![David H. Wheeler portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/05wheeler-360x200.gif)
David H. Wheeler
President ad interim:
1867 – 1869
![Erastus O. Haven portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/06haven-360x200.gif)
Erastus O. Haven
3rd President of Northwestern:
1869 – 1872
![Charles H. Fowler portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/07fowler-360x200.gif)
Charles H. Fowler
4th President of Northwestern:
1872 – 1876
![Oliver Marcy portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/08marcy-360x200.gif)
Oliver Marcy
President (acting):
1876 – 1881
1890
![Joseph Cummings portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/09cummings-360x200.gif)
Joseph Cummings
5th President of Northwestern:
1881 – 1890
![Oliver Marcy portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/08marcy-360x200.gif)
Oliver Marcy
President (acting):
1876 – 1881
1890
![Henry Rogers portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/10rogers-360x200.gif)
Henry Rogers
6th President of Northwestern:
1890 – 1900
![Daniel Bonbright portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/11bonbright-360x200.gif)
Daniel Bonbright
President ad interim:
1900 – 1902
![Edmund James portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/12james-360x200.gif)
Edmund James
7th President of Northwestern:
1902 – 1904
![Thomas Holgate portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/13holgate-360x200.gif)
Thomas Holgate
President ad interim:
1904 – 1906
1916 – 1919
![Abram Harris portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/14harris-360x200.gif)
Abram Harris
8th President of Northwestern:
1906 – 1916
![Thomas Holgate portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/13holgate-360x200.gif)
Thomas Holgate
President ad interim:
1904 – 1906
1916 – 1919
![Lynn Hough portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/17hough-360x200.gif)
Lynn Hough
9th President of Northwestern:
1919 – 1920
![Walter Dill Scott portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/18scott-360x200.gif)
Walter Dill Scott
10th President of Northwestern:
1919 – 1939
![Franklin Snyder portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/19snyder-360x200.gif)
Franklin Snyder
11th President of Northwestern:
1939 – 1949
![J. Roscoe Miller portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/20miller-360x200.gif)
J. Roscoe Miller
12th President of Northwestern:
1949 – 1970
![Robert Strotz portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/21strotz-360x200.gif)
Robert Strotz
13th President of Northwestern:
1970 – 1984
![Arnold R. Weber portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/22weber-360x200.gif)
Arnold R. Weber
14th President of Northwestern:
1984 – 1994
![Henry S. Bienen portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/23bienen-360x200.gif)
Henry S. Bienen
15th President of Northwestern:
1994 – 2009
![Morton Schapiro portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/04/24schapiro-360x200.gif)
Morton Schapiro
16th President of Northwestern:
2009 – 2022
![Michael Schill portrait](https://sites.northwestern.edu/northwesternpresidents/files/2022/11/25schill-360x200.gif)
Michael H. Schill
17th President of Northwestern:
2022 – current
Special Thanks
Thank you to the following colleagues for their support for this project: Kevin Leonard, Dana Lamparello and Charla Wilson, University Archivists; Janet Olson and Patrick Quinn, Emeritus Archivists; Cory Slowik, Northwestern Libraries Marketing and Communication. Thank you also to the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives for stewarding the archives of Northwestern University.
Last updated: November 2022