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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