List of women presidents or chancellors of co-ed colleges and universities
Current and former female presidents or chancellors of co-ed colleges and universities are listed in order of the inaugural year. == United States == Julia Sears, 1872–1873, Mankato Normal School (now Minnesota State University, Mankato) Mary A. Hill, 1900–1901, Anna Draper, 1901–1903, Bertha Pinkham Dixon, 1903–1904, and Matilda Atkinson, 1904–1909, Training School for Christian Workers (now Azusa Pacific University) Lucy Robertson, 1902–1913, Greensboro Female College (now Greensboro College) Mary Hayes Allen, 1906–1908, Virginia Theological Seminary and College (now Virginia University of Lynchburg) Emma Elizabeth Johnson, 1925–1927, Johnson University (Kimberlin Heights, TN) Mary Elizabeth Branch, 1930–1944, Huston–Tillotson University (Austin, TX) Kate Galt Zaneis, 1935–1937, Southeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College (now Southeastern Oklahoma State University) Miriam Parker Schumacher, 1944–1967, Southwestern University (now Southwestern Law School) Mary McLeod Bethune, 1941–1942 and 1946–1947, Bethune-Cookman College (now Bethune-Cookman University) Isabel McKay, 1951–1965, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute Gertrude Shapiro, 1952–1971, New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science, then renamed New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University) Dora E. Kirby, 1959–1977, Woodbury University Sr.