Dr. Charles Warren
Interim President

Dr. Charles Warren will serve as interim president while Defiance College’s board of trustees launches a national search for a new president to succeed Dr. Gerald Wood who stepped down June 30, 2008.

Dr. Warren, retired president of Lynchburg College, comes as a familiar face to Defiance College and the local community. He led the McMaster School for Advancing Humanity during the 2004-05 academic year. Most recently, he was interim president at Bluefield College in Virginia during 2006 and 2007.

Dr. Warren earned a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He retired in 2001 as the ninth president of Lynchburg College, a post he had held since 1993. He previously served as president of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the SUNY College at Cortland, and dean of arts and sciences and professor of biology at Plattsburgh.

His career has also included work as a research biologist for a private laboratory and as a National Institutes of Health Research Fellow in Biochemistry at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. He has been involved with a wide range of community and state leadership organizations in Tennessee, New York, and Virginia, and remains active as an education and planning consultant.