Wardens of Sing Sing

The Wardens of Sing Sing are appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.^[1]

• Elam Lynds (1825–1830)
• Robert Wiltse (1830–1840)
• David L. Seymour (1840–1843)
• William H. Peck (warden) (1843–1845)
• Hiram P. Rowell (1845–1848)
• Chauncey Smith (1848–1849)
• Edward L. Potter (January, 1849)
• Alfred R. Booth (July, 1849)
• Munson J. Lockwood (1850–1855)
• C. A. Batterman (1855–1856)
• William Beardsley (warden) (1856–1862)
• Gaylord B. Hubbell (1862–1864)
• Thomas E. Sutton (1864–1865)
• Stephen H. Johnson (1865–1868)
• David P. Forrest (1868–1869)
• Henry Clay Nelson (1869–1870)
• E. M. Russell (1870–1872)
• Henry C. Nelson (1872–1873)
• Gaylord B. Hubbell (1873–1874)
• James Williamson (warden) (September 1874)
• Alfred Walker (warden) (October 1874)
• George R. Youngs (1876–1877)
• Charles Davis (warden) (February 1877)
• Benjamin S. W. Clark (March 1877)
• Charles Davis (warden) (1877–1880)
• Augustus A. Brush (1880–1891)
• W. R. Brown (1891–1893)
• Charles F. Durston (1893–1894)
• Omar Van Leuven Sage (1894–1899) ^[2]
• Addison Johnson (1899–1907)
• Jesse D. Frost (1907–1911)
• John S. Kennedy (1911–1913)
• James Connaughton (warden)* (June 1913) acting warden
• James M. Clancy (1913–1914)
• Thomas McCormick (June 1914)
• George Standish Weed* (October 1914) acting warden
• Thomas Mott Osborne (1914–1915)
• George Washington Kirchwey (1915) ^[3]
• Thomas Mott Osborne (July 1916) ^[4]
• Calvin Derrick (October 1916)
• William H. Moyer (1916–1919)
• Edward V. Brophy (April 1919)
• Daniel J. Grant* (1919–1920) acting warden
• Lewis Edward Lawes (1920–1941)
• Robert John Kirby (1941–1944)
• William F. Snyder (1944–1950)
• Wilfred Louis Denno (1950–1967) ^[5][6]
• John T. Deegan (1967–1969)
• James L. Casscles (1969–1972)
• Theodore Schubin (1972–1975)
• Joseph Higgins* (July 1975) acting warden
• Harold Butler (warden) (October 1975)
• William G. Gard (1975–1977)
• Walter Fogg* (August 1977) acting warden
• Stephen Dalsheim (1977–1980)
• Wilson E.J. Walters (1980–1983)
• James E. Sullivan (warden) (1983–1988)
• John P. Keane (1988–1997)
• Charles Greiner (1997–2000)
• Brian S. Fischer (2000–2007)
• Luis Marshall (2007-2009)
• Dawson J.W. Brown* (January 2009 - July 2009) acting Superintendent
• Philip Heath (2009-2012)
• Michael Capra (2012–2023)
• Marlyn Kopp (2023–present) ^[7]

* denotes an acting warden who holds the position until a full-time warden can be appointed