Former Tuck School Dean John W. Hennessey Jr. and former Vermont Governor Madeleine May Kunin were married on February 12, 2006, at The Equinox in Manchester, Vermont.
Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, Emeritus, Hennessey served on the Tuck faculty for 30 years, including 8 years as dean, and he was a co-founder of Dartmouth's Institute of Applied and Professional Ethics. In 1987, he became the first provost of The University of Vermont and served as interim president in 1990. Hennessey has served as a trustee and chairman of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and as a member of a number of corporate and nonprofit governing boards. He is currently a trustee of Vermont Law School, the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, and Americans for Campaign Reform, as well as a member of the board of advisors of Tuck's Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship.
Kunin served as governor of Vermont—the only woman to hold that office—from 1985 to 1991. She served in the Clinton administration as deputy secretary of education and in 1996 was appointed to a three-year term as United States ambassador to her native Switzerland. Kunin chronicled her years of public service in her book, Living a Political Life. She has been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth; bicentennial scholar at Middlebury College; fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and fellow at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute. She is now a distinguished visiting professor of political science at The University of Vermont and St. Michael's College.
Hennessey's wife died in June 2004, and Kunin was divorced in 1995. The couple will divide their time between their Burlington, Vermont, and Hanover, New Hampshire, homes.
