The Lyon College Board of Trustees approved Weatherman’s nomination as the next president of Lyon at its spring meeting today (April 17).
Weatherman served as the John D. Trimble Sr. Professor of Political Philosophy at Lyon from 1983 to 1999. He left to become vice president and dean of Erskine College in South Carolina. In 2003, he was promoted to executive vice president and dean. He also serves as a professor of politics at Erskine.
He earned a Ph.D. in American government and political philosophy from Claremont Graduate University, and his master’s degree from the same institution. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University at Los Angeles, Calif., majoring in political science. Weatherman was a Bradley Resident Scholar for The Heritage Foundation for six months in 1988. He was one of the first to participate in this program designed to bring academics to Washington, D.C.
Before coming to Lyon in 1983, Weatherman held faculty position at the College of St. Catherine, the College of Idaho, and California State University at San Bernardino. At Lyon, Weatherman served as a division chair for several years and received the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching in1986.
He has been a member of many academic and civic organizations in both South Carolina and Arkansas. He was a weekly columnist in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1997-99) and the Batesville Daily Guard (1995-97). He has been a political analyst for The Index-Journal in Greenwood, S.C.
He has been an elder in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as well as a church school teacher.
When he and his family lived in Batesville, he was a member of the White River Medical Center Regional Advisory Board, a member of the Batesville City Planning Commission, and was a troop instructor for the Boy Scouts of America.
He is the author of a book, Endangered Guardians: Party Reform Within a Constitutional System (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994), and has written numerous articles on politics and government that have appeared in academic journals, reference books, and general publications.
He is married to Lynn Weatherman and they have two children, David, a law student at the University of Memphis, and Andrea, a Converse College graduate who plans to move to Austria to study German.
