Past Presidents
Since its founding in 1871, Christian Brothers University has been served by 24 full-term Presidents (several earlier Presidents served more than one non-consecutive terms). All past Presidents were members of the De La Salle Christian Brothers teaching order from 1871 to 2009, when Dr. John Smarrelli was appointed the first lay President.
Past Presidents 1871-Present
- President Maurelian Sheel, FSC | 1871-91
- President Anthony Walsh, FSC | 1891-94
- President Maurelian Sheel, FSC | 1894-99
- President Anthony Walsh, FSC | 1899-1902
- President Icarion Havighorst, FSC | 1902-04
- President Maurelian Sheel, FSC | 1904-09
- President Jovitus Edward O’Rourke, FSC | 1909-14
- President Elzear Stephen Kelly, FSC | 1914-15
- President Baldwin Witzleben, FSC | 1915-16
- President John Joseph McMahon, FSC | 1916-18
- President Leopold Julian Dodd, FSC | 1918-22
- President Luke Joseph Kenrick, FSC | 1922-28
- President Ignatius Francis McEvoy, FSC | 1928-35
- President Luke Joseph Kenrick, FSC | 1935-41
- President Lawrence David Bickett, FSC | 1941-47
- President Hyacinth Richard Gerlach, FSC | 1947-53
- President Lambert Thomas Matthews, FSC | 1953-62
- President Terence McLaughlin, FSC | 1962-64
- President Luke Grande, FSC | 1964-70
- President Malcolm O’Sullivan, FSC | 1970-73
- President Bernard LoCoco, FSC | 1973-80
- President Theodore Drahmann, FSC | 1980-93
- President Stanislaus Sobczyk, FSC* | 1993-94
- President Michael J. McGinniss, FSC | 1994-99
- President Stanislaus Sobczyk, FSC | 1999-2005
- President H. Lance Forsdick, AFSC* | 2005
- President Vincent Malham, FSC | 2005-08
- President H. Lance Forsdick, AFSC* | 2008-09
- President John Smarrelli Jr., PhD | 2009-2019
- President John T. Shannon Jr. | 2019-2021
- President David L. Archer | 2021-
*Interim