President of the High Council
The Lord or Lady President (or President of the Council or simply President) governed the High Council of Time Lords, making him or her the holder of the most powerful office on Gallifrey. Lady President Romana often used a full title of President of the Supreme Council of Gallifrey and all of her Dominions. (BFG: Gallifrey)
The ceremonial privileges of the President included access to the APC Net by means of the Matrix Crown (DW: The Invasion of Time) and the possession of the Sash and Rod of Rassilon (sometimes also called the Key of Rassilon). (DW: The Deadly Assassin)
The President also had the formal responsibility, not attempted in reality, to seek the Great Key of Rassilon (a separate artefact from the Rod of Rassilon, also sometimes referred to as the Key of Rassilon). (DW: The Invasion of Time)
The Lord President cannot be put on trial. (DW: The Mysterious Planet)
Holders of the office of President
- Pandak III (DW: The Deadly Assassin, RT: Birth of a Renegade)
- Saran, Vice President, became President during the Morbius Crisis. (PDA: Warmonger)
- Drall, President during The Doctor's time at the Time Lord Academy. (PDA: Divided Loyalties)
- Un-named male President (DW: The Three Doctors)
- Un-named male President (assassinated) (DW: The Deadly Assassin) (possibly the same President)
- Greyjan the Sane was President for three days between the 2nd September 1752 and 14th September 1752. (EDA: The Ancestor Cell)
- The Doctor, was the 407th President. (DW: The Invasion of Time, EDA: The Ancestor Cell)
- Un-named male President (impersonated by the White Guardian and later by the Black Guardian) (DW: The Armageddon Factor)
- Borusa (DW: Arc of Infinity. The Five Doctors)
- The Doctor (did not assume office; deposed), he was (still counted as) the 409th President. (DW: The Five Doctors, EDA: The Ancestor Cell)
- Niroc was president during Operation Ravalox and the Doctor's (faked) trial. He was a puppet of the Celestial Intervention Agency. (DW: The Trial of a Time Lord, EDA: The Eight Doctors)
- Flavia was president for some time, then challenged and beaten for presidency by Romana. (EDA: The Eight Doctors, NA: Happy Endings)
- Un-named male President (BFA: The Sirens of Time), this President also served as interim President during Romana's imprisonment by the Daleks . (BFA: The Apocalypse Element)
- Romanadvoratrelundar (see her entries Romana (second incarnation) and Romana (third incarnation) for more details) (NA: Blood Harvest, Happy Endings, Lungbarrow, MA: Goth Opera, BFA: Neverland, Zagreus, BFG: Gallifrey, EDA: The Shadows of Avalon, The Ancestor Cell)
- Voran, Dromeian Castellan was acting President. PDA: The Infinity Doctors)
- The Narrator was the President during the Last Great Time War. (DW: The End of Time (TV story)
