Longwood University, a public liberal arts college in Farmville, Virginia, is led by a president selected by a Board of Visitors, who are appointed by the Governor of Virginia. Beginning with its founding as a private finishing school in 1839, through its 1884 conversion to a public normal school, and its postwar transition to a coeducational university, Longwood has had twenty-seven presidents. The current president is W. Taylor Reveley IV, who was inaugurated in 2013.
Principals (1839–1884) In the private finishing school era, when the school was known as Farmville Female Seminary and later Farmville Female College, the school president was known as a principal.
# Name Years Reference Image1 1839–1843 2 1843–1846 3 1846–1850 4 1850–1855 5 1855–1859 6 1859–1862 7 1862–1869 8 1869–1870 9 1871–1872 10 1872–1873 11 1873–1882 12 1882–1884
Presidents (1884–present) Following the Virginia government's purchase of the then-Farmville College in 1884 and conversion into a normal school, the head official of Longwood became known as a president. # Name Years Reference Image13 1884–1887 14 1887–1897 15 1898–1902 16 1902–1946 17 Dabney S. Lancaster 1946–1955 18 1955–1965 19 1965–1967 20 1967–1981 21 1981–1987 22 1987–1988 23 1988–1996 24 1996–2010 25 Patrick Finnegan 2010–2012 26 2013–present
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