Kendra Stearns O'Donnell (born 1944) is an American educator and painter who served as the 12th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
She served as a program officer at the Markle Foundation, the program director of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and as a consultant and special assistant to the president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
[2][3] During her time at Exeter, she received significant press coverage over her handling of a scandal involving the firing of a drama teacher, Larry Lane Bateman, over child pornography charges in 1992.
[4][5] She currently serves as a member of the board of trustees at the Hotchkiss School;[6] Emma Willard School,[7] where she served as the president of the board prior to becoming principal of Exeter; and the Currier Museum of Art.
[2] Past positions of hers include the director of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and the vice-president of the board of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.