Presidents of The Examiner Club

  • Frederic Henry Hedge

    Frederic Henry Hedge, Unitarian Minister, Harvard Professor, Founder of the Transcendental Movement
    1863-1883

  • James Freeman Clarke

    Liberalizing Unitarian Minister
    1883-1888

  • Edward Everett Hale

    Unitarian Minister, Harvard Professor, U. S. Senate Chaplain
    1888-1909

  • James Normandie

    Unitarian Minister, First Church in Roxbury
    1910-1920

  • William Wallace Fenn

    Unitarian Minister, Dean, Harvard Divinity School
    1920-1924

  • George Wigglesworth

    Lawyer, Businessman
    1924-1931

  • Arthur Dehon Little

    Chemist, Businessman
    1931-1933

  • Henry LeFavour

    President, Simmons College
    1935-1943

  • Harlow Shapley

    Astronomer, Harvard Professor
    1943-1947
    1952-1958

  • Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague

    Professor, Harvard Business School
    1947-1949

  • Leonard Carmichael

    President, Tufts University
    1949-1952

  • Bailey Aldrich

    Judge, US Court of Appeals, First District
    1958-1975

  • Frank Coffin

    Judge, US Court of Appeals, First District
    1975-1983

  • Roy Lamson

    MIT Professor of Literature
    1983-1984

  • Peter Davison

    Poet, Editor
    1984-1992

  • Carola Eisenberg

    Psychiatrist, Educator
    1992-2003

  • Douglas Woodlock

    Judge, US District Court, District of Massachusetts
    2003-2013

  • Ranganath Nayak

    Engineer, Consultant, Businessman
    2013-2016

  • Robert Kuttner

    Writer, Publisher, Political Scientist
    2016-2022

  • Willian (Ned) Friedman

    Professor, Head, Arnold Arboretum
    2022-Present