High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Gerety, a lawyer, philosopher, and self-proclaimed "60s radical", is the former president of both Trinity College (1989-1994) and Amherst College (1994–2003). After leaving Amherst College, he became the executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. His early departure from the presidency of Trinity College was the subject of a critical Harvard Business School case about board governance.