J. A. C. Chandler

• President of the College of William and Mary
• Strong supporter of the Norfolk Division
• Chandler Hall (now Constant Hall) was named in his honor.

Joseph Ewart Healy

A. H. Foreman

• Chairman of the Noroflk School Board
• Member pof the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary
• Foreman Field was named in his honor.

Robert Morton Hughes

• Member of the Board of Visitors of William and Mary (1893-1917)
• Suggested the need for a two-year branch of the College of William and Mary in Norfolk
• Hughes Library (now Perry Library) and Hughes Hall were named in his honor.
• The Old Dominion University Library's Special Collections houses The Papers of Robert Morton Hughes

Early Administrators and Faculty

H. Edgar Timmerman

First director of the Norfolk Division, 1930-1932

Edward Gwathmey

Second director of the Norfolk Division, 1932

William T. Hodges

Director, 1933-1941

Perry Y. Jackson

• Chemistry Faculty, 1930
• Interviewed on April 24, 1975

W. Gerald Akers

• One of the first faculty 1931-1972
• Foreign languages Department
• Interviewed on July 10, 1974