Vice President and Secretary
Linda Koch Lorimer, B.A., J.D.
Linda Koch Lorimer, Vice President of the University, has been the University’s Secretary since 1993 and is the officer responsible for an array of institutional functions, ranging from corporate governance to public relations, alumni affairs, security, and licensing. She also directs the new Office of International Affairs at Yale. She served as a member of the Yale Corporation, the University’s governing board, before being tapped to come back to Yale. Ms. Lorimer held a series of administrative appointments at Yale from 1978 to 1986, including service as the youngest Associate Provost in the University’s history. She practiced law in New York City at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
From 1986 to 1993, Ms. Lorimer was President of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. She was President of the Board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which represents over 600 universities and colleges. She has served as the Vice Chair of the Board of the Center for Creative Leadership and as a director for more than twenty regional or national nonprofit organizations. Ms. Lorimer is currently the Lead Director of the McGraw-Hill Companies and serves as a director of Sprint Corporation.
