*Listed by date of emerita/emeritus distinction
1978	Douglas Clay Houchens, Professor Emeritus of Art; B.F.A., M.F.A. (Richmond Professional Institute)
1981	Winfred Pleasants Minter, Professor Emeritus of Political Science; B.S., M.S. (Virginia Polytechnic), Ph.D. (Chicago)
1983	Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr., President Emeritus of the College and Professor Emeritus of History; A.B. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), L.L.D (Davidson), L.H.D. (Oglethorpe, Queens, Bridgewater, Marymount, Hollins, Mary Baldwin), Litt.D. (Washington and Lee)
1984	George Labban, Jr., W. R. Grey Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies; A.B., M.A., Ph.D. (Texas)
1985	Richard Clyde Burts, Jr., Registrar Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Psychology; A.B. (Furman), M.A., Ed.D. (Columbia)
1985	Thomas A. Cartmill, Professor Emeritus of Physical Education; B.S. (Springfield), M.Ed. (Johns Hopkins)
1985	Hallam Walker, Professor Emeritus of French; A.B., M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)
1987	Jean S. Cornell, Associate Professor Emerita of Speech; B.A. (Ohio Wesleyan), M.S.J. (Northwestern), M.A. (Arizona)
1988	C. Louise Nelson, Professor Emerita of Economics; B.S., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)
1989	James Monroe Fredericksen, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; B.S. (Richmond), Ph.D. (Virginia)
1989	Malcolm Lester, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of History; A.B. (Mercer), M.A., Ph.D. (Virginia)
1991	J. Harris Proctor, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Political Science; A.B. (Duke), M.A. (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), Ph.D. (Harvard)
1991	Wilmer Hayden Welsh, Professor Emeritus of Music; B.S. (Johns Hopkins), B.Mus., M.M., Artist's Diploma (Peabody Conservatory)
1991	Albert Allen Wolf, Professor Emeritus of Physics; B.A., M.A. (Vanderbilt), Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
1992	Horace Alden Bryan, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; A.B. (King), Ph.D. (Tennessee)
1992	Charles Edward Ratliff, Jr., William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Economics; B.S. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)
1993	Richard Cargill Cole, Virginia Lasater Irvin Professor Emeritus of English; A.B. (Hamilton), M.A., Ph.D. (Yale)
1993	Max Eugene Polley, J.W. Cannon Professor Emeritus of Religion; A.B. (Albion), B.D., Ph.D. (Duke)
1993	Jerry Allan Roberts, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; B.E.Py., M.S., Ph.D. (North Carolina State)
1994	Ralph William Gable, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; B.S. (Texas), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)
1994	Samuel Dow Maloney, James Sprunt Professor Emeritus of Religion and Philosophy; A.B. (Davidson), B.D., Th.M., Th.D. (Union Seminary-Richmond)
1994	Junius Brutus Stroud, Richardson Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; B.S. (Davidson), M.A., Ph.D. (Virginia)
1994	William Holt Terry, Dean of Students Emeritus; B.S. (Davidson), M.Div., D.Min. (Union Seminary-Richmond)
1994	Erich-Oskar Joachim Siegfried Wruck, Professor Emeritus of German; A.B., M.A., Ph.D. (Rutgers)
1995	Jack R. Perry, Director Emeritus of the Dean Rusk Program in International Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science; A.B. (Mercer), M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia)
1997	John Nicholas Burnett, Maxwell Chambers Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; B.A., M.S., Ph.D. (Emory)
1997	John D. Kelton, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Psychology; B.S. (Davidson), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)
1998	Glenn Carlos Lindsey, Professor Emeritus of Economics; B.B.A., M.B.A. (Georgia)
1998	Alexander Jeffrey McKelway, Paul B. Freeland Professor Emeritus of Religion; A.B. (Davidson), B.A. (Princeton Seminary), Th.D. (Basel)
1999	William Francis Frey, Professor Emeritus of Physics; A.B. (King), M.S., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)
1999	Robert David Kaylor, James Sprunt Professor Emeritus of Religion; A.B. (Southwestern), B.D. (Louisville Seminary), Ph.D. (Duke)
1999	T.C. Price Zimmermann, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Emeritus and Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of History; B.A. (Williams), B.A., M.A. (Oxford), A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)
2000	David Carroll Grant, Professor Emeritus of Biology; A.B. (Wooster), Ph.D. (Yale)
2000	Donald L. Kimmel, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Biology; A.B. (Swarthmore), M.D., (Temple), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins)
2000	John H. Williamson, Herman Brown Professor Emeritus of Biology; B.S. (North Carolina State), M.S. (Cornell), Ph.D. (Georgia)
2001	Anthony S. Abbott, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of English; A.B. (Princeton), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard)
2001	Dirk French, W. R. Grey Professor Emeritus of Classics; A.B. (Lawrence), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)
2002	Charles D. Dockery, Professor of French Emeritus; B.A. (Earlham), M.A., Ph.D. (Iowa)
2002	Lunsford Richardson King, Richardson Professor of Mathematics Emeritus; B.S. (Davidson), Ph.D. (Duke)
2003	Grant D. Jones, Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology Emeritus; B.A. (Florida State), M.A., Ph.D. (Brandeis)
2003	John W. Kuykendall, President Emeritus of the College and Samuel E. and Mary W. Thatcher Professor of Religion Emeritus; B.A. (Davidson), B.D. (Union Seminary - Richmond), S.T.M (Yale), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton), D.D. (Hanover), L.H.D. (Wofford)
2003	Bonnie McAlister, Instructor Emeritus in Speech; B.A. (Northwestern), M.A. (UNC Greensboro)
2003	Malcolm O. Partin, Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor Emeritus of History, A.B. (UNC Chapel Hill), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)
2004	John Gill Holland, Professor Emeritus of English; A.B. (Washington & Lee), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill)
2004	Robert C. Williams, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Emeritus and Vail Professor Emeritus of History; B.A. (Wesleyan). A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)
2005	John Addis Casey, Executive Director and Professor Emeritus of Information Technology; B.S. (loyola), M.S., Ph.D. (Michigan State)
2005	Robert John Manning, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Physics and Humanities; A.B. (Gettysburg), M.S., Ph.D. (Virginia)
2005	Robert E. Maydole, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy; B.S. (St. Joseph's), Ph.D. (Boston University
2006	Leland Madison Park, Director Emeritus of the Library; A.B. (Davidson), M.Ln. (Emory), Adv .M. in L.S., PhD. (Florida State)
2007	C. Earl Edmondson, Professor Emeritus of History; B.A. (Mississippi College), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke)
2007	Alan J. Singerman, Professor Emeritus of French; B.A. (Ohio), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana)