| Jim M. Nichols | |
| Birth Date: | 27 August 1975 |
| Birth Place: | Camden, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Harding University |
| Coach Years1: | 2003–2005 |
| Coach Team1: | Auburn (GA) |
| Coach Years2: | 2006–2008 |
| Coach Team2: | Faulkner |
| Coach Years3: | 2009 |
| Coach Team3: | Troy (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 2010–2013 |
| Coach Team4: | Texas Tech (director of football) |
| Coach Years5: | 2016 |
| Coach Team5: | Mount Dora Christian (FL) |
| Coach Years6: | 2019 |
| Coach Team6: | Liberty (chief of staff) |
| Admin Years1: | 2015–2019 |
| Admin Team1: | Mount Dora Christian (FL) |
| Admin Years2: | 2019–? |
| Admin Team2: | Liberty (assistant AD) |
Jim M. Nichols is American college administrator and former football coach. He was the first head football coach at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, [1] Nichols was hired at Faulkner in 2006 following three seasons as a graduate assistant at Auburn University, where he worked under head football coach Tommy Tuberville.[2]
Nichols was the athletics director at Mount Dora Christian Academy in Mount Dora, Florida from 2015 to 2019 and was the school's head football coach in 2016. He resigned in January 2019 to take a job as assistant athletic director and chief of staff for the football team at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.[3] Nichols is now the vice president of development for Liberty.
Nichols was born in Camden, Arkansas and grew up in Searcy, Arkansas, where he went to Searcy High School and graduated from Harding University.