The study aimed to identify the planning aspects for the administrative succession of women academic leaders in Saudi universities, covering its obstacles from the study sample and educational leadership experts’ perspectives, the descriptive survey method, in addition to the Delphi method was adopted in this study. The sample size consists of (363) faculty members (women) and (52) experts. The study concluded, that the aspects of the practices followed in the process of women’s academic leaders’ replacement in Saudi universities scored (1.82 out of 3.00), with average approval, and the whereas the best practice followed are, the replacement of the alternative administrative leaders is based on the recommendation of the current leaders, and the integrity of the female candidates is taken into consideration when appointing to leadership positions. As for the readiness of universities to adopt and implement administrative succession plans for women leaders, scored of (1.85 out of 3.00) with average approval. The most prominent expected obstacles were the weak integration between the Deanship of Human Resources Development and other deanships to build future leaders, the lack of a department specialized in planning leadership succession within the university, as well as the weak financial incentives for the targeted leaders. The study recommended the necessity of implementing administrative succession programs for women leaders in saudi universities, working on preparing training and development programs for leaders, announcing the terms of appointment for all, and making them clear and specific in order to achieve administrative transparency, and taking into account the suggestions of experts to facilitate the process of implementing succession plans
MUNERAH NAIF ALOTAIBI (Sun,) studied this question.