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| <tr><td>Portrait</td><td>Name</td><td>Post</td><td>Took office</td><td>Left office</td><td>Division</td><td>Ref(s)</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Douglass Houghton</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1837</td><td>1845 (death)</td><td>First Geological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Office suspended (1845–1859)</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Alexander Winchell</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>March 9, 1859</td><td>1862</td><td>Second Geological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>Office suspended (1862–1869)</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Alexander Winchell</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>April 24, 1869</td><td>April 17, 1871</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Carl Rominger</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1871</td><td>1885</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Charles E. Wright</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1885</td><td>1888 (death)</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Marshman E. Wadsworth</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1888</td><td>1893</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Lucius L. Hubbard</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>July 3, 1893</td><td>1899</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Alfred Church Lane</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1899</td><td>1909</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Roland C. Allen</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1909</td><td>1919</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Richard A. Smith</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1919</td><td>1920</td><td>Third Geological Survey Michigan Geological and Biological Survey</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Richard A. Smith</td><td>Division Chief and State Geologist</td><td>1920</td><td>1946</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Gerald E. Eddy</td><td>Division Chief and State Geologist</td><td>1946</td><td>1951</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Franklin G. Pardee</td><td>Division Chief and State Geologist</td><td>1951</td><td>1952</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>William L. Daoust</td><td>Acting State Geologist</td><td>1952</td><td>1954</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>William L. Daoust</td><td>Division Chief and State Geologist</td><td>1954</td><td>1964</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Conservation</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Gerald E. Eddy</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1964</td><td>1971</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Arthur E. Slaughter</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1971</td><td>1976</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Arthur E. Slaughter</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1976</td><td>1977</td><td>Third Geological Survey Division of Geology, Department of Natural Resources</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Arthur E. Slaughter</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1977</td><td>1981</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>R. Thomas Segall</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1981</td><td>1996</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Natural Resources</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Harold R. Fitch</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>1996</td><td>2002</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological Survey Division, Department of Environmental Quality</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Harold R. Fitch</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>2002</td><td>2004</td><td>Third Geological Survey Geological and Land Management Division, Department of Environmental Quality</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Harold R. Fitch</td><td>State Geologist</td><td>2004</td><td>2011</td><td>Third Geological Survey Office of Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Quality</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>Alan E. Kehew</td><td>Director</td><td>2011</td><td>2013</td><td>Third Geological Survey WMU Department of Geosciences</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| <tr><td>-</td><td>John A. Yellich</td><td>Director</td><td>2013</td><td>—</td><td>Third Geological Survey WMU Department of Geosciences</td><td>-</td></tr> | |
| </table> | |