AFSA Presidents

In This Section

Year(s) in Office Name Title
2025-present John W. Dinkelman President
2023-2025 Tom Yazdgerdi President
2019-2023 Hon. Eric S. Rubin President
2015-2019 Hon. Barbara J. Stephenson President
2013-2015 Robert J. Silverman President
2009-2013 Susan Rockwell Johnson President
2007-2009 John K. Naland President
2005-2007 Hon. J. Anthony Holmes President
2003-2005 Hon. John W. Limbert President
2001-2003 John K. Naland President
1999-2001 Marshall Adair President
1997-1999 Daniel F. Geisler President
1997 Hon. Willard A. (Bill) De Pree President
1997 Hon. Alphonse F. La Porta President
1993-1997 F. Allen 'Tex' Harris President
1992-1993 William A. Kirby, Jr. President
1991-1992 Hume Horan President
1989-1991 Theodore Wilkinson President
June 1987-1989 Perry Shankle President
May-June 1987 Frank Young President
July 1985-May 1987 Gerald Lamberty President
July 1985 Robert Keeley President
1982-July 1985 Dennis K. Hays President
July 1981-1982 Hon. Charles S. Whitehouse President
May-July 1981 Antheas de Rouville President
1980-May 1981 Kenneth Bleakley President
1978-1979 Lars Hydle President
1977 Patricia Woodring President
1976 John D. Hemenway President
1973-1975 Hon. Thomas D. Boyatt President
1972-1973 David H. McKillop President
  Hon. William C. Harrop
(succeeded by Thomas D. Boyatt, April 1973)		 Chairman
1970-1972 Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. President
  Charles W. Bray III
(succeeded by William C. Harrop, January 1971)		 Chairman
1968-1969 Philip Habib President
  Lannon Walker Chairman
1967-1968 Foy D. Kohler President
  David H. McKillop Chairman
1966-1967 Douglas MacArthur II President
  David H. McKillop Chairman
1965-1966 U. Alexis Johnson President
  John H. Stutesman, Jr. Chairman
1964-1965 Samuel D. Berger President
  W.T.M. Beale Chairman
1963-1964 U. Alexis Johnson President
  Taylor G. Belcher
(succeeded by Leslie Brady, 3/6/64)		 Chairman
1962-1963 Lucius D. Battle President
  Elbert G. Matthews Chairman
1961-1962 Charles E. Bohlen President
  William Boswell
(succeeded by Hugh Appling, 4/24/62)		 Chairman
1960-1961 Livingston T. Merchant President
  William L. Blue Chairman
1959-1960 G. Frederick Reinhart President
  Thomas S. Estes Chairman
1958-1959 Joseph C. Satterthwaite President
  J. Graham Parsons Chairman
1956-1958 E. Allan Lightner, Jr. Chairman
1955-1956 Robert D. Murphy President
  Outerbridge Horsey
(succeeded by Henry Villard)		 Chairman
1954-1955 John D. Hickerson President
  Andrew D. Foster Chairman
1953-1954 John D. Hickerson President
  Tyler Thompson Chairman
1952-1953 John F. Simmons President
  Herve L'Heureux Chairman
1951-1952 Herve L'Heureux Chairman
1950-1951 George F. Kennan President
  Herve L'Heureux Chairman
1948 Norman Armour President
1945-1946 John Erhardt President
  Loy Henderson Chairman
1944-1945 H. Merle Cochran Chairman
1943-1944 Joseph C. Grew President
  Edwin P. Stanton Chairman
1942-1943 Nathaniel Davis President
  Howard Travers Chairman
1941-1942 Herschel V. Johnson President
  Howard Bucknell Chairman
1940-1941 Joseph E. Jacobs President
  George L. Brandt Chairman
1939-1940 John K. Davis President
  Joseph W. Ballantine Chairman
1938-1939 Clarence Gauss President
  Jay Pierrepont Moffat Chairman
1937-1938 Ray Atherton President
  G. Howland Shaw Chairman
1936-1937 Coert Du Bois President
  Thomas M. Wilson Chairman
1935-1936 John Campbell White President
  Thomas M. Wilson Chairman
1934-1935 Homer M. Byington President
  Thomas M. Wilson Chairman
1932-1933 Leo J. Keena President
1931-1932 Arthur Bliss Lane President
1930-1931 Ralph J. Totten President
1929-1930 George T. Summerlin President
  Arthur Bliss Lane Chairman
1928-1929 Horace Lee Washington President
  Arthur Bliss Lane Chairman
1927-1928 Evan R. Young President
  William Dawson Chairman
1925-1926 Francis White Chairman
1924-1925 Evan R. Young Chairman