Chairs of the Board of Trustees
The chair of the board shall be elected from among the trustees at the annual meeting for a four-year term and may be elected to a second consecutive term. Except as otherwise provided herein, the chair of the board shall preside at all meetings of the board and the executive committee of the board. The chair of the board shall be an ex officio member of each trustee committee.
Vassar College Governance
| William Kelly | 1861–1871 |
| Ira Harris | 1872–1875 |
| Edward D. Lathrop. D.D | 1876–1906 |
| Augustus H. Strong, D.D.,LL.D. | 1906–1911 |
| Henry M. Sanders, D.D. | 1911–1913 |
| W.C.P. Rhoades, D.D. | 1913–1917 |
| Charles M. Pratt | 1917–1920 |
| Daniel Smiley | 1920–1922 |
| Henry Evertson Cobb, D.D. | 1922–1929 |
| Helen Kenyon, 1905 | 1929–1939 |
| Morris Hadley | 1939–1941 |
| Kathryn H. Starbuck, 1911 | 1941–1945 |
| Katherine Blodgett Hadley, 1920 | 1945–1953 |
| Harriet Taylor Mauck, 1925 | 1953–1956 |
| Herbert F. Goodrich, LL.D. | 1956–1957 |
| Frederica Pisek Barach, 1925 | 1957–1961 |
| John Wilkie | 1961–1969 |
| Elizabeth Runkle Purcell, 1931 | 1969–1977 |
| Mary St. John Villard, 1934 | 1977–1981 |
| Mary Draper Janney, 1942 | 1981–1989 |
| James C. Kautz | 1989–1996 |
| Richard E. Van Demark, 1977 | 1996–2006 |
| William A. Plapinger, 1974 | 2006–2018 |
| Anthony J. Friscia, 1978 | 2018– |
EAD, CJ, 2019