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Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter to Step Down at End of 2025


Kennedy Center president Deborah F. Rutter will step down from her role at the end of 2025. She has served as president since 2014.

Deborah F. Rutter, who has served as president of the Kennedy Center since 2014, has announced her decision to step down at the end of this year. “After more than 10 extraordinary years in Washington, D.C., collaborating with some of the most phenomenal artists, cultural leaders, diplomats, philanthropists, volunteers, and administrators, I have come to believe it is time to pass the torch,” Rutter said in a statement. In her first year, Rutter broke ground on a transformative arts facility and first-ever campus expansion, the REACH.

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