1888 - 1889 | ![]() |
Thomas C. Buchanan | Principal |
1889 - 1912 | ![]() |
Robert L. Madison | Principal, later President |
1912 - 1920 | ![]() |
Alonzo C. Reynolds | President |
1920 - 1923 | ![]() |
Robert L. Madison | President |
1923 - 1947 | ![]() |
Hiram T. Hunter | President |
1947 - 1949 | ![]() |
W. Ernest Bird | Acting President |
1949 - 1956 | ![]() |
Paul A. Reid | President |
1956 - 1957 | ![]() |
W. Ernest Bird | President |
1957 - 1968 | ![]() |
Paul A. Reid | President |
1968 - 1972 | ![]() |
Alexander S. Pow | President |
1972 | ![]() |
Frank H. Brown, Jr. | Acting President |
1972 - 1973 | ![]() |
Jack K. Carlton | Chancellor |
1973 | ![]() |
W. Hugh McEniry | Acting Chancellor |
1974 | ![]() |
Frank H. Brown, Jr. | Acting Chancellor |
1974 - 1984 | ![]() |
Harold F. Robinson | Chancellor |
1984 - 1994 | ![]() |
Myron L. Coulter | Chancellor |
1994 - 1995 | ![]() |
John H. Wakeley | Interim Chancellor |
1995 - 2011 | ![]() |
John W. Bardo | Chancellor |
2011 - 2017 | ![]() |
David O. Belcher | Chancellor |
2018 - 2019 | ![]() |
Alison Morrison-Shetlar | Interim Chancellor |
2019 - Present | ![]() |
Kelli R. Brown | Chancellor |
All images courtesy of Special Collections, Hunter Library Western Carolina University except for Thomas C. Buchanan, courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest.