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About the President

Thomas C. Hudnut, President and Chief Executive Officer, has been with Harvard-Westlake School since 1987. The school serves the greater Los Angeles area and enrolls 1,600 students in grades seven through 12. Mr. Hudnut previously served as head of The Branson School in Ross, California, and Norwood School in Bethesda, Maryland, after beginning his teaching career in 1970 at St. Albans School in Washington, DC.

A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, Mr. Hudnut also holds a master's degree in diplomatic history and international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. He is the author of numerous articles on education and co-author of a book on French politics.

Mr. Hudnut is currently President-General of The Cum Laude Society, a Trustee of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Good Hope Medical Foundation.  He is a past president of The Headmasters Association, the Country Day School Headmasters' Association and of the California Association of Independent Schools, has been a trustee of five independent schools and the Treasurer and a director of School Year Abroad, Inc.  Additionally, he has been a director of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, The National Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, the United States Water Polo Foundation, and the Marin Symphony, of which he was also the president.

Mr. Hudnut is married to the former Deirdre Steele Moran, Director of Admissions at the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles, and they are the parents of three adult children.