Office of the President

Western Michigan University has had nine presidents since it was founded as the Western State Normal School in 1903:

• Dwight B. Waldo (1904–1936)
• Paul V. Sangren (1936–1960)
• James W. Miller (1961–1974)
• John T. Bernhard (1974–1985)
• Diether Haenicke (1985–1998)
• Elson Floyd (1998–2003)
• Judith Bailey (2003–2006)
• Diether Haenicke (interim) (2006–2007)
• John Dunn (2007–2017)
• Edward B. Montgomery (2017-Present)