Shirley M. Tilghman

Shirley M. Tilghman

Shirley Marie Tilghman, FRS (née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator, the President of Princeton University. She is the first woman to hold the position and only the second female president in the Ivy League. A leader in the field of molecular biology, Tilghman was a member of the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president.

Tilghman announced on September 22, 2012, that she would step down as president at the end of the 2012-2013 academic year.