NACUA’s Current and Past Chief Elected Officers

Below is a list of NACUA’s Current and Past Chief Elected Officers.

2020 – Present

2025-2026

  • Timothy G. Lynch, University of Michigan

2024-2025

  • Traevena Byrd, American University

2023-2024

  • Melissa Holloway, North Carolina A&T State University

2022-2023

  • Janine DuMontelle, Chapman University

2021-2022

  • Laura Todd Johnson, University of Arizona

2020-2021

  • Stephen Sencer, Emory University 
2010 – 2020

2019-2020

  • Jerry Blakemore, [University of North Carolina General Administration], University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2018-2019

  • Leanne Shank*, Law School Admission Council

2017-2018

  • Nancy E. Tribbensee, Arizona Board of Regents

2016-2017

  • José Padilla, DePaul University

2015-2016

  • L. Lee Tyner, University of Mississippi

2014-2015

  • Thomas G. (Tom) Cline, Northwestern University

2013-2014

  • William J. (Bill) Mullowney, Valencia College

2012-2013

  • Dana Scaduto, Dickinson College

2011-2012

  • Jonathan Alger, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2010-2011

  • Marianne Schimelfenig, Saint Joseph’s University
2000 – 2010

2009-2010

  • Derek P. Langhauser, Maine Community College System

2008-2009

  • Mary E. Kennard, American University

2007-2008

  • Henry L. Cuthbert, Duke University 

2006-2007

  • Georgia Yuan, Smith College

2005-2006

  • Melinda W. Grier, Oregon University System

2004-2005

  • Basil H. Thomson, Jr., Southern Methodist University

2003-2004

  • Francine Tilewick Bazluke, University of Vermont

2002-2003

  • Christine Helwick, California State University

2001-2002

  • Edward N. Stoner II, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Westminster College

2000-2001

  • Pamela J. Bernard, University of Florida
1990 – 2000

1999-2000

  • William R. Kauffman, Saint Louis University

1998-99

  • Mary Ann Connell, University of Mississippi

1997-98

  • S. Andrew Schaffer*, New York University

1996-97

  • Paul J. Ward, Arizona State University

1995-96

  • Michael C. Weston, Northwestern University

1994-95

  • Lee B. Liggett, University of Houston System

1993-94

  • David M. Donaldson*, Radcliffe College

1992-93

  • Mary Elizabeth Kurz, Michigan State University

1991-92 

  • Beverly E. Ledbetter, Brown University

1990-91

  • Richard B. Crockett, Syracuse University
1980 – 1990

1989-90

  • Peter Ruger, Washington University

1988-89 

  • George M. Shur*, Northern Illinois University

1987-88

  • Donald R. Fowler*, California Institute of  Technology

1986-87

  • Sanford H. Levine*, State University of New York

1985-86

  • John A. Beach*, Albany Medical College, Syracuse University

1984-85

  • Roderick K. Daane, University of Michigan

1983-84

  • Donald L. Reidhaar* University of California

1982-83

  • William H. Oswald, Loyola University of Chicago

1981-82

  • Marvin E. Wright*, Stephens College

1980-81

  • Estelle A. Fishbein*, Johns Hopkins University
1970 – 1980

1979-80

  • James B. Wilson*, University of Washington

1978-79

  • John W. Wheeler*, Columbia University

1977-78

  • William Byron Darden*, New Mexico State University

1976-77

  • Neal R. Stamp*, Cornell University

1975-76

  • James J. Costello*, University of Illinois

1974-75

  • Charles S. Horgan*, College of New Rochelle, College of the Holy Cross

1973-74

  • Norman L. Epstein*, California State University and Colleges

1972-73

  • Norman A. Wiggins*, Campbell University

1971-72

  • R. Joel Tierney*, University of Minnesota

1970-71

  • Edwin G. Gemrich*, Kalamazoo College
1961 – 1970

1969-70

  • J. Rufus Bealle*, University of Alabama

1968-69

  • Lawrence R. Caruso*, Princeton University

1967-68

  • Ray Trammell*, University of Arkansas

1966-67

  • Edmund McIlhenny*, Tulane University

1965-66

  • Thomas J. Cunningham*, University of California

1964-65

  • E.C. Bryson*, Duke University

1963-64

  • Paul M. Peterson*, University of Missouri

1962-63

  • Alban Weber*, Northwestern University

1961-62

  • Ralph A. Lesemann*, University of Illinois

*deceased

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