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)

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