Thomas J. Hochstettler

Thomas John Hochstettler became Lewis & Clark College’s 23rd president on August 16, 2004.

An Ohio native, he has a broad background in higher education that spans financial and strategic planning, institutional and academic development, fund-raising, and scholarly research and teaching as a historian.

Hochstettler earned his bachelor of arts degree in history from Earlham College in 1969 and a year later his master’s degree in history at the University of Michigan. A Woodrow Wilson National Fellow from 1969 to 1970, he held a Horace H. Rackham Doctoral Fellowship from 1973 to 1974 and a teaching fellowship in history at the university from 1974 to 1977. Hochstettler was also a Stipendiat of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Würzburg, Germany, from 1975 to 1976. During that time, he attended the Goethe Institute in Lüneburg, Germany, and Würzburg’s Julius-Maximillian-Universtität. Upon returning to the States, Hochstettler earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Michigan in 1980.

A teaching and research fellow in the department of history at Stanford University from 1978 to 1980, Hochstettler spent the next six years as a financial analyst, budget manager, and assistant director of finance at Stanford University Hospital. His accomplishments included achieving for Stanford the second highest reimbursement rate of all medical facilities nationwide. In 1986, Hochstettler became a senior associate and staff economist for Stanford’s Office of Financial Planning.

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