A complete chronological list of Trinity's past presidents.

• 1824-1831 Thomas Church Brownell
• 1831-1837 Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton
• 1837-1848 Silas Totten
• 1848-1853 John Williams ’35
• 1853-1860 Daniel Raynes Goodwin
  • 1860-1861, 1864, 1865-1867, 1874 John Brocklesby H’45, Acting President
• 1861-1864 Samuel Eliot H’57
• 1864-1865 John Barrett Kerfoot H’65
• 1867-1874 Abner Jackson '37
• 1874-1883 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon ’41
• 1883-1895 George Williamson Smith H’87
  • 1896 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon ’41, Acting President
• 1896-1904 George Williamson Smith H’87
• 1904-1919 Flavel Sweeten Luther ’70, H’04
  • 1915-1916, 1919-1920 Henry Augustus Perkins, Acting President
• 1920-1943 Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby
  • 1943-1945, 1951-1953 ​Arthur Howard Hughes M’38, H’46, Acting President ​
• 1945-1951 George Keith Funston '32
• 1953-1968 Albert Charles Jacobs H’68
• 1968-1981 Theodore Davidge Lockwood ’48, H’81
  • 1980 James Fairfield English, Jr. H’89, Acting President
• 1981-1989 James Fairfield English, Jr. H’89
• 1989-1994 Tom Gerety
  • 1994-1995 Borden W. Painter, Jr. '58, H’95, Acting President
• 1996-2001 Evan S. Dobelle
• 2002-2003 Richard H. Hersh
  • ​2003-2004 ​Borden W. Painter, Jr. ’58, H’95
• 2004-2014 James F. Jones, Jr. H’14
• 2014-present Joanne Berger-Sweeney

Past Presidents