Lou Anna Simon
Lou Anna Simon | |
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Simon in 2014 | |
| 20th President of Michigan State University | |
| In office January 1, 2005 – January 24, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | M. Peter McPherson |
| Succeeded by | John Engler (interim) Samuel L. Stanley |
| In office April 25, 2003 – September 30, 2003 | |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Indiana State University (BA) Michigan State University (MS, PhD) |
Lou Anna Kimsey Simon is an American academic administrator who served as the 20th president of Michigan State University (MSU) from 2005 until 2018.
Simon was named interim president of the university in 2003, then was appointed president in 2005. She also served as chair of the executive committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association from and as chair of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch from 2013 to 2015. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2016. In December 2017, MSU appointed her John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor in the College of Education.
The following month, Simon resigned as president amid claims that she had ignored reports of sexual abuse by Larry Nasser, a sports physician at MSU. She retired from her faculty job at MSU in 2019.