INDIANAPOLIS - Great Midwest Commissioner Tom Daeger announced on Tuesday afternoon that Jessica Harbison Weaver has joined the conference as its Deputy Commissioner. Harbison Weaver will also be designated as the conference’s Senior Woman Administrator (SWA).
 
As Deputy Commissioner, Harbison Weaver will oversee the Great Midwest governance and compliance efforts, and play a key role in strategic planning and committee oversight.
 
"We are really fortunate to have Jessica join our team as Deputy Commissioner," said Great Midwest Commissioner Tom Daeger. "She is a trusted colleague and has proven her excellence in compliance services during her extensive administrative career. Jessica will be an outstanding addition to our office staff and will provide valuable support to our member institutions.”  Harbison Weaver joins the Great Midwest with over 16 years of administrative experience, most recently having served as Commissioner of the PacWest Conference.
 
"It is an incredible honor to be working with the Great Midwest Athletic Conference." Harbison Weaver said. "I want to thank Tom Daeger for the opportunity to join the G-MAC. I look forward to continuing the high Compliance standards that have been put into place by former Deputy Commissioner Leslie Schuemann, while helping the membership adapt and thrive in the new landscape of Division II intercollegiate athletics."
 
In 2021, Harbison Weaver was named the recipient of the Division II Excellence Award by the National Association for Athletic Compliance. The Division II Excellence Award is given to one person in NCAA Division II each year, as "a prestigious annual award given to a compliance professional who is a leader in the compliance field at the Division II level."
 
In August 2024, she ended her term as the Chair of the NCAA Division II Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee after six years.  She sat on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Athletics Compliance (NAAC) as the Chair of the NAAC Division II Reasonable Standards Committee, and the co-Chair of the Division II Conference Commissioners Association Compliance Officers (D2CCACA). She has also previously  served on the NCAA Division II Baseball Committee and as the chair of the West Region Baseball Regional Advisory Committee.
 
She was the Deputy Athletics Director/SWA at Concordia University (Ore.) from 2017-2020. At Concordia, Harbison Weaver served as the senior compliance administrator for all 15 of the Cavaliers’ sports. She helped Concordia (Ore.) win the GNAC’s 2018-19 and 2019-20 All-Academic trophies, and was the sport supervisor for five sports.

Prior to arriving in Portland in 2017, Harbison Weaver was the Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance Services at the University of California, Riverside, helping oversee all 17 intercollegiate sports. She also spent three years as the Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
 
From 2009 to 2013, Harbison Weaver spent four and a half years working at the NCAA National Office where she rose to the level of Coordinator for Academic and Membership Affairs. Harbison Weaver has served on a number of key athletics and compliance-related committees over the years, and has also spent over a decade as a member of Women Leaders in College Sports.

Harbison Weaver is a graduate of Butler University and has a master's degree from Indiana University.