Daniel S. Hendrickson SJ is the 25th president of Creighton University starting on July 1, 2015, until the present.

[2] Daniel's identical twin is D. Scott Hendrickson, a Loyola University Chicago assistant professor of modern languages.

Daniel's older brother Ryan Hendrickson is a political science professor and interim dean of Eastern Illinois University Graduate School.

From 2000 to 2003, Hendrickson returned as an adjunct philosophy instructor and briefly served as an adjunct professor with Creighton's Institute for Latin American Concern (ILAC) program in Santiago, Dominican Republic for a year.

The principal celebrant for the Missioning Mass was Thomas A. Lawler, Provincial of the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus.

[7][8] The inauguration took place on Friday, October 2, 2015, with various dignitaries and honored guests, including George Lucas, Archbishop of Omaha.