| 2008-2009 –– Robert Wiltenburg, Washington University |
| 2007-2008 –– Richard Novak, Rutgers University |
| 2006-2007 –– Barbara Scott, Southern Oregon University |
| 2005-2006 –– Roger Whitaker, George Washington University |
| 2004-2005 –– James Broomall, University of Delaware |
| 2003-2004 –– Muriel Oaks, Washington State University |
| 2002-2003 –– John Ebersole, Boston University |
| 2001-2002 –– Audrey S. Anderson, California State University-Fresno |
| 2000-2001 –– Wendell Smith, Univ of Missouri-St. Louis |
| 1999-2000 –– Thomas Kowalik, SUNY-Binghamton |
| 1998-1999 –– Sue C. Maes, Kansas State University |
| 1997-1998 –– Gordon H. (Nick) Mueller, University of New Orleans |
| 1996-1997 –– James P. Pappas, The University of Oklahoma |
| 1995-1996 –– Edward G. Simpson, Jr., The University of Georgia |
| 1994-1995 –– Miriam Williford, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| 1993-1994 –– Marcia Bankirer, Colorado State University |
| 1992-1993 –– Robert W. Comfort, Univ of Pittsburgh |
| 1991-1992 –– Calvin L. Stockman, Grand Valley State University |
| 1990-1991 –– Thomas M. Hatfield, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 1989-1990 –– Daniel W. Shannon, University of Chicago |
| 1988-1989 –– Mary L. Pankowski, Florida State University |
| 1987-1988 –– Harold A. Miller, University of Minnesota |
| 1986-1987 –– Hilton T. Bonniwell, University of Akron |
| 1985-1986 –– John C. Snider, University of Alabama |
| 1984-1985 –– Harvey J. Stedman, New York University |
| 1983-1984 –– Adelle F. Robertson, University of Virginia |
| 1982-1983 –– Quentin H. Gessner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 1981-1982 –– Joseph P. Goddard, University of Tennessee-Knoxville |
| 1980-1981 –– Jean C. Evans, University of Wisconsin |
| 1979-1980 –– Grace M. Donehower, University of Nevada-Reno |
| 1978-1979 –– William L. Turner, North Carolina State University |
| 1977-1978 –– Phillip E. Frandson, University of California-Los Angeles |
| 1976-1977 –– Paul E. Hadley, Univ of Southern California |
| 1975-1976 –– John B. Ervin, Washington Univ. of St. Louis |
| 1974-1975 –– Lowell R. Eklund, Oakland University |
| 1973-1974 –– Glenn A. Goerke, Florida Int’l University |
| 1972-1973 –– Armand L. Hunter, Michigan State University |
| 1971-1972 –– Floyd B. Fischer, The Pennsylvania State University |
| 1970-1971 –– Robert F. Ray, University of Iowa |
| 1969-1970 –– Nicholas P. Mitchell, University of South Carolina |
| 1968-1969 –– Stanley C. Robinson, University of Illinois |
| 1967-1968 –– T. Howard Walker, University of Kansas |
| 1966-1967 –– Charles F. Milner, Univ. of North Carolina |
| 1965-1966 –– Alexander N. Charters, Syracuse University |
| 1964-1965 –– Stanley J. Drazek, University of Maryland |
| 1963-1964 –– Howard R. Neville, Michigan State University |
| 1962-1963 –– Paul H. Sheats, Univ of California-Los Angeles |
| 1961-1962 –– D. Mack Easton, University of Colorado |
| 1960-1961 –– Thurman White, University of Oklahoma |
| 1959-1960 –– James R. D. Eddy, University of Texas |
| 1958-1959 –– John R. Morton, University of Alabama |
| 1957-1958 –– Ernest E. McMahon, Rutgers University |
| 1956-1957 –– Ernest A. Lowe, University of Georgia |
| 1955-1956 –– Roy R. Thomkins, Oklahoma State University |
| 1954-1955 –– Lloyd W. Schram, University of Washington |
| 1953-1954 –– Everett J. Soop, University of Michigan |
| 1952-1953 –– J. Walter Brouillette, Louisiana State University |
| 1951-1952 –– Lorenz H. Adolfson, University of Wisconsin |
| 1950-1951 –– Julius M. Nolte, University of Minnesota |
| 1949-1950 –– Edward L. Keller, The Pennsylvania State University |
| 1948-1949 –– Knute O. Broady, University of Nebraska |
| 1947-1948 –– Robert E. Tidwell, University of Alabama |
| 1946-1947 –– Maurice A. Chaffee, Rutgers University |
| 1945-1946 –– Fessenden C. Lowry, University of Tennessee |
| 1944-1945 –– Charles A. Fisher, University of Michigan |
| 1943-1944 –– Robert B. Browne, University of Illinois |
| 1942-1943 –– George B. Zehmer, University of Virginia |
| 1941-1942 –– Russell M. Grumman, University of North Carolina |
| 1940-1941 –– J. Orvis Keller, The Pennsylvania State University |
| 1939-1940 –– Bert C. Riley, University of Florida |
| 1938-1939 –– Bruce E. Mahan, University of Iowa |
| 1937-1938 –– D. Walter Morton, Syracuse University |
| 1936-1937 –– Frank M. Debatin, Washington University of St. Louis |
| 1935-1936 –– Albert A. Reed, University of Nebraska |
| 1934-1935 –– Frank W. Shockley, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1933-1934 –– Arthur M. Harding, University of Arkansas |
| 1932-1933 –– Theodore G. Grayson, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1931-1932 –– Robert E. Cavanaugh, Indiana University |
| 1930-1931 –– Elmore Petersen, University of Colorado |
| 1929-1930 –– Norman C. Miller, Rutgers University |
| 1928-1929 –– Thomas H. Shelby, University of Texas |
| 1927-1928 –– James A. Moyer, Massachusetts Department of Education |
| 1926-1927 –– William H. Lighty, University of Wisconsin |
| 1925-1926 –– Leon J. Richardson, University of California-Berkeley |
| 1924-1925 –– Harold G. Ingham, University of Kansas |
| 1923-1924 –– Richard R. Price, University of Minnesota |
| 1922-1923 –– Charles G. Maphis, University of Virginia |
| 1921-1922 –– Frederick W. Reynolds, University of Utah |
| 1920-1921 –– John J. Pettijohn, University of Minnesota |
| 1919-1920 –– William D. Henderson, University of Michigan |
| 1917-1919 –– Charles B. Robertson, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1916-1917 –– Hervey F. Mallory, University of Chicago |
| 1915-1916 –– Louis E. Reber, University of Wisconsin |
