President of Dartmouth College
Incumbent Sian Beilock since June 12, 2023
Appointer	Board of Trustees
Term length	No term limit
Inaugural holder	Eleazar Wheelock
Formation	December 13, 1769 (256 years ago) (1769-12-13)
Website	president.dartmouth.edu

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, a Yale graduate and Congregational minister, through a royal charter issued by John Wentworth in the name of King George III.^[1][2] The charter created a college for the education of Native Americans and others in the "liberal arts and sciences", connecting it to Wheelock's earlier Charity School.^[1] Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, the institution is the ninth oldest college in the United States and the last founded under colonial rule.^[1][3]

The president of Dartmouth College is the institution's chief executive officer and chief adviser to the Board of Trustees. Under the Board's bylaws, the president has "general charge and control of the College and its affairs," including the organization of the faculties; responsibility for the conduct of educational and administrative operations and internal discipline; authority to execute instruments on the College's behalf; and the power to appoint and remove officers and administrators consistent with Board policies. The president serves as a trustee ex officio and is a voting member of the Board's Executive Committee, and an ex officio non-voting member of its other standing committees, with recusals required when the Board considers presidential compensation or performance. In the event of the president's death, absence, or disability, the Board may designate an interim president and define the scope of interim authority.^[4]

The College's 1769 charter vests governance in the "Trustees of Dartmouth College", authorizing them to elect officers, grant degrees, and "displace and remove" officers as necessary; in modern practice, degrees approved by the Trustees are conferred by the president at commencement.^[4][5] Dartmouth's status as a private corporation governed by its Board, and the inviolability of its charter, were affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819).^[6][7]

Since 1769, nineteen individuals have held the office, a line known as the "Wheelock Succession".^[8] The current president, Sian Beilock, was elected by the Board on July 21, 2022, took office on June 12, and was inaugurated on September 22, 2023, becoming the first woman to lead Dartmouth.^[9][10][11]

The following persons have served as president of Dartmouth College:^[8]

Presidents

No.	Image	Name	Class	Term start	Term end	Ref.
1		Eleazar Wheelock[a]	–	1769	1779	[12][13]
2		John Wheelock	1771	1779	1815	[12][14]
3		Francis Brown	1805	1815	1820	[12][15]
4		Daniel Dana	1788	1820	1821	[12][16]
5		Bennet Tyler	–	1822	1828	[12][17]
6		Nathan Lord	–	1828	1863	[12][18]
7		Asa Dodge Smith	1830	1863	1877	[12][19]
8		Samuel Colcord Bartlett	1836	1877	1892	[12][20]
9		William Jewett Tucker	1861	1893	1909	[12][21]
10		Ernest Fox Nichols[b]	–	1909	1916	[12][22]
11		Ernest Martin Hopkins	1901	1916	1945	[12][23]
12		John Sloan Dickey	1929	1945	1970	[12][24]
13		John George Kemeny[c]	–	1970	1981	[12][25]
14		David T. McLaughlin[d]	1954	1981	1987	[12][26]
15		James O. Freedman	–	1987	1998	[12][27]
16		James Wright[e]	–	1998	June 30, 2009	[12][28]
17		Jim Yong Kim[f]	–	July 1, 2009	June 30, 2012[g]	[12][29]
acting		Carol Folt	–	July 1, 2012	June 30, 2013	[30]
18		Philip J. Hanlon[h]	1977	July 1, 2013	June 11, 2023	[12][31][32]
19		Sian Beilock	–	June 12, 2023	present	[12][33][34]