This is a list of presidents of Shimer College , from 1853 to the position's abolition in 2017.
| # | Image | Name | Term begin | Term end | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Frances Shimer | 1853 | 1896 | Principal of Mount Carroll Seminary Former schoolteacher | |
| | Cindarella Gregory | 1853 | 1870 | Co-Principal of Mount Carroll Seminary, departed in 1870 Former schoolteacher | ||
| – | | Frank J. Miller | 1896 | 1897 | Non-resident principal of Frances Shimer Academy [1] Professor at University of Chicago | [2] |
| 2 | | William Parker McKee | 1897 | 1930 | Dean of Frances Shimer Academy Former Baptist minister | [2] |
| 3 | | Floyd Wilcox | 1930 | 1935 | President of Frances Shimer Junior College | [2] |
| – | | A. Beth Hostetter | 1935 | 1936 | [2] | |
| 4 | | Raymond Culver | 1936 | 1938 | Formerly professor of Bible and religious education at Linfield College | [2] |
| – | | A. Beth Hostetter | 1938 | 1939 | [2] | |
| 5 | | Albin C. Bro | 1939 | 1949 | Former staff at University of Chicago Press President of Frances Shimer College | [2] |
| – | | John H. Russel | 1949 | 1950 | [3] | |
| 6 | | Aaron Brumbaugh | 1950 | 1954 | Former Dean of the College of the University of Chicago | [2] [4] |
| 7 | | Francis Joseph Mullin | 1954 | 1968 | Former professor of medicine at the University of Chicago | [2] |
| 8 | | Milburn Akers | 1968 | 1970 | Former editor at the Chicago Sun-Times | [2] |
| 9 | Robert Spencer Long [2] | 1970 | 1974 | Formerly Dean at Roger Williams College | ||
| – | | Esther G. Weinstein | 1974 | 1975 | Formerly Professor of Social Sciences and Associate Dean at Shimer College | [2] |
| 10 | | Ralph W. Conant | 1975 | 1978 | Urbanologist | [2] |
| 11 | | Donald P. Moon | 1978 | 2004 | Episcopal priest Former nuclear reactor physicist | [2] |
| 12 | | William Craig Rice | 2004 | 2006 | Former staff member at the American Academy for Liberal Education | |
| – | | Ronald Champagne | 2007 | 2009 | Former administrator at Roosevelt University | |
| 13 | | Thomas K. Lindsay | 2009 | 2010 | Former director at the National Endowment for the Humanities | |
| – | | Edward Noonan | 2010 | 2012 | Former architect | |
| 14 | | Susan Henking | 2012 | 2017 | Scholar of religious studies Final President of Shimer College |