Jessica Harbison Weaver became the PacWest Conference Commissioner on July 1, 2023, taking over for Bob Hogue, who retired after 16 years of leading the conference.
“I want to thank President (Adam) Morris, the Executive Board, and the search committee for this opportunity to serve the PacWest in a new role as the commissioner,” Harbison Weaver said. “I look forward to continuing the tradition of academic and athletic success, and growing the PacWest into the premier Division II conference on the west coast.”
Harbison Weaver joined the PacWest in May 2020 as the Associate Commissioner and Senior Woman Administrator. She was promoted to the conference's Senior Associate Commissioner and Senior Woman Administrator in July 2022, overseeing compliance and select sports and championships. She served as the advisor to the PacWest SAAC and Medical Aspects Committee.
Currently she is on the NCAA Division II Baseball Committee and serves as the chair of the West Region Baseball Regional Advisory Committee. 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).
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."
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. She and her husband, Rodney, reside in Long Beach.