Michael Heindl

Dr. Michael J. Heindl was selected as the ninth president of Northwest Mississippi Community College on April 26, 2018—he assumed office on July 1st of that year.

Dr. Heindl, who is a community college graduate, has 24 years of higher education experience in a number of key areas, including student services, instruction, finance, technology, legal issues, human resources, emergency management, recruiting, campus leadership, campus safety, athletics, student services, workforce training, and admissions.

In addition to his administrative leadership experience, Dr. Heindl has 17 years of teaching experience, having served as an adjunct instructor for legal courses in both the Department of Business and in the Career-Technical paralegal program at Hinds Community College. He has also taught graduate-level courses in higher education law at Mississippi College in Clinton, MS, and has served as an adjunct professor in the Community College Leadership doctoral program at Mississippi State University teaching Community College Legal Issues.

He holds a Ph.D. in community college leadership from Mississippi State University (2011), a Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School at Western Michigan University (2001), a B.S. in psychology from Mississippi College (1997), and an Associate of Arts in general studies/music from Hinds Community College (1994).

He was honored with MS Business Journal’s Top CEO recognition in 2021, received the Paragon Award from Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society in 2021, was a Leadership Mississippi graduate, a Leadership DeSoto graduate, and a CCBO Outstanding Chief Business Officer award recipient. He serves on the American Association of Community College’s Board of Directors, the NJCAA Legal Advisory Council, and is a member of the Tate County Economic Development Foundation Board.

He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children—Taryn, 29, Harrison, 21 and Nicholas, 19—and one grandson, Jayson, 9.