Department Chronological Faculty Appointments
Faculty
Permanent/tenured appointments only. Cross-appointees from other departments are not included.
Colons denote some uncertainty in the date.
| Clarence A. Chant | 1905 – 1935 | Died 1956 | |
| Reynold K. Young | 1924 – 1946 | Died 1977 | |
| Peter M. Millman | 1934: – 1946 | Died 1990 | |
| Frank S. Hogg | 1934: – 1951 | Died 1951 | |
| John F. Heard | 1935 – 1976 | Died 1976 | |
| Helen S. Hogg | 1941 – 1976 | Died 1993 | |
| Ruth J. Northcott | 1941: – 1969 | Died 1969 | |
| Ralph E. Williamson | 1946 – 1953 | Died 1982 | |
| Donald A. MacRae | 1953 – 1982 | Died 2006 | |
| J. Beverly Oke | 1953 – 1958 | Died 2004 | |
| Leonard Searle | 1956 – 1961 | ||
| Sidney van den Bergh | 1958 – 1977 | ||
| J. Donald Fernie | 1961 – 1996 | Died 2022 | |
| Pierre Demarque | 1962 – 1966 | ||
| Robert C. Roeder | 1964 – 1983 | ||
| William H. Clarke | 1965-2008 | Died 2020 | |
| S.P.S. Anand | 1966 – 1973 | ||
| Ernest R. Seaquist | 1966 – 2004 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| Maurice J. Clement | 1967 – 2002 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| John R. Percy | 1967 – 2007 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| Robert F. Garrison | 1968 – 2001 | Deceased 2017 | |
| Philipp P. Kronberg | 1968 – 1999 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| Rene Racine | 1969 – 1976 | ||
| C. Thomas Bolton | 1972 – 2008 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| Peter G. Martin | 1972 – 1984 | Transferred to CITA/SGS | |
| Christine C. Clement | 1974 – 2005 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| Robert A. McLaren | 1975 – 1990 | ||
| John B. Lester | 1976 – | ||
| Karl W. Kamper | 1979 – 1998 | Died 1998 | |
| Charles C. Dyer | 1980 – 2011 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| Barry F. Madore | 1981 – 1989 | ||
| Stefan W. Mochnacki | 1981 – 2015 | Retired | |
| Raymond G. Carlberg | 1987 – | ||
| Howard K. C. Yee | 1989 – | ||
| Simon J. Lilly | 1990 – 2001 | ||
| C. Barth Netterfield | 1999 – | ||
| Slavek M. Rucinski | 1999 – 2009 | Now Professor Emeritus | |
| Roberto G. Abraham | 2000 – | ||
| Marten van Kerkwijk | 2002 – | ||
| Chris Matzner | 2002 – | ||
| Yanqin Wu | 2002 – | ||
| Ray Jayawardhana | 2004 – | ||
| Dae-Sik Moon | 2006 – | ||
| James R. Graham | 2010- 2012 | Dunlap Director | |
| Shelley Wright | 2012- 2015 | ||
| Keith Vanderlinde | 2013- | ||
| Bryan Gaensler | 2015 – | Dunlap Director | |
| Jo Bovy | 2015 – | ||
| Suresh Sivanandam | 2015 – | ||
| Renée Hložek | 2016 – |
CITA
CITA members who are/were cross-appointed as Faculty to the Department (and SGS)
| Peter G. Martin | 1984 – | Transferred from the Department |
| Scott Tremaine | 1985 – 1997 | |
| Dick Bond | 1985 – | |
| Nick Kaiser | 1988 – 1997 | |
| Norm Murray | 1993 – | |
| Lev Kofman | 1998 – 2009 | Died 2009 |
| Ue-Li Pen | 1998 – | |
| Chris Thompson | 2000 – | |
| Roman Rafikov | 2005 – 2007 | |
| Harald Pfeiffer | 2009 – | |
| Dan Green | 2014 – |
Department Head/Chair & DDO Director
| Clarence.A. Chant | 1905 – 1935 |
| Reynold K Young | 1935 – 1946 |
| Frank S. Hogg | 1946 – 1951 |
| John F. Heard | 1951 – 1952 (acting), 1952 – 1965 |
| Donald A. MacRae | 1965 – 1978 * |
| J. Donald Fernie | 1978 – 1988 *; 1993 – 94 (acting) |
| Ernest R. Seaquist | 1988 – 1993; 1994 – 1999 |
| Peter G. Martin | 1999 – 2001; 2002-2005; 2006 – 2010 |
| William H. Clarke | 2001 – 2002; 2005 – 2006 Acting Chair |
| Howard K.C. Yee | 2010 – 2015 |
| Raymond Carlberg | 2015 – |
* D. MacRae was the last departmental Head with a career appointment as such. D. Fernie was the first Chair with a term appointment.
Dunlap Institute Director
| James R. Graham | 2010 – 2012 | Director |
| Bryan Gaensler | 2015 – | Director |
Departmental Librarians
From 1935 to approximately 1962, the secretary at DDO was also the librarian in the sense that he/she was responsible for recording and putting out incoming library materials.
| Jean Lehmann | 1962 – 1969 (part-time) |
| Sheila Smolkin | 1969 – 1972 |
| Priscilla Wagner | 1972 – 1973 |
| Carol Morrison | 1973 – 1974 |
| Ruta Caune | 1974 – 1976 |
| Sheila Summerhays | September 1976 only |
| Zane Sterns | 1976 – 1981 |
| Lynda Colbeck | 1981 – 1984 |
| Marlene Cummins | 1984 – 2004 |
| Lee Robbins | 2004 – |