Presidents of Kalamazoo College
In 2005 Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran became Kalamazoo College's 17th President and first female president, as well as the first African-American president of the school. She is the 22nd President overall, including interim and acting presidents. Her immediate predecessors are Bernard Palchick, who served as interim president and returned to the administration, and James F. Jones, who departed to become President of Trinity College, in Connecticut.
- Nathaniel Marsh (1835)
- Walter Clark (1835–1836)
- Nathaniel Aldrich Balch (1836–1838)
- David Alden (1838–1840)
- William Dutton (After whom Dutton Street was named) Fifth and last Principal teacher. (1840–1843)
- James Stone (1843–1863)
- John Milton Gregory (1864–1867)
- Kendall Brooks (1868–1887)
- Monson A. Wilcox (1887–1891)
- Theodore Nelson (1891–1892)
- Arthur Gaylord Slocum (1892–1912)
- Herbert Lee Stetson (1912–1922)
- Allan Hoben (1922–1935)
- Charles True Goodsell (1935–1936) (interim)
- Stewart Grant Cole (1936–1938)
- Paul Lamont Thompson (1938–1948)
- Allen B. Stowe (1948–1949) (interim)
- John Scott Everton (1949–1953)
- Harold T. Smith (1953) (interim)
- Weimer K. Hicks (1953–1971)
- George M. Rainsford (1972–1983)
- David W. Breneman (1983–1989)
- Timothy Light (1989–1990) (acting)
- Lawrence D. Bryan (1990–1996)
- James F. Jones (1996–2004)
- Bernard Palchick (2004–2005) (interim)
- Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran (since 2005)
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