Alumni who have served as president/chair of the GAA Board of Directors:
Name and class year | Dates of office |
David C. Keesler ’84 | 2022-23 |
Dana E. Simpson ’96 (’00 JD) | 2021-22 |
Jill Silverstein Gammon ’70 (’72 MSW) | 2020-21 |
J. Rich Leonard ’71 (’73 MEd) | 2019-20 |
L. Ferguson “Ferg” Norton ’61 | 2018-19 |
James E. “Jim” Delany ’70 (’73 JD) | 2017-18 |
Teresa Holland Williams ’77 | 2016-17 |
Dan A. Myers ’71 (’75 MD) | 2015-16 |
Vaughn D. Bryson ’60 | 2014-15 |
Robyn S. Hadley ’85 | 2013-14 |
Eric S. Montross ’94 | 2012-13 |
Donald W. Curtis ’63 | 2011-12 |
D. Jordan “Jordy” Whichard III ’79 | 2010-11 |
Eleanor Saunders Morris ’55 | 2009-10 |
Randy K. Jones ’79 (’82 JD) | 2008-09 |
Dwight M. “Davy” Davidson III ’77 | 2007-08 |
Tom D. Efird ’61 (’64 LLBJD) | 2006-07 |
Jean Almand Kitchin ’70 | 2005-06 |
Anthony S. Harrington ’63 | 2004-05 |
Carl Lafayette Matheson Jr. ’57 | 2003-04 |
Richard T. “Stick” Williams ’75 | 2002-03 |
Betty Ray McCain ’52 | 2001-02 |
Richard Y. Stevens ’70 (’74 JD, ’74 MPA) | 2000-01 |
William P. Aycock II ’65 (’70 JD) | 1999-2000 |
Charles M. Winston Sr. ’53 | 1998-99 |
Edward H. Hardison ’55 | 1997-98 |
Anthony Eden Rand ’61 (’64 LLBJD) | 1996-97 |
Anne Wilmoth Cates ’53 | 1995-96 |
* J. Allen Adams ’52 (’54 LLBJD) | 1994-95 |
Willis P. “Bill” Whichard ’62 (’65 LLBJD) | 1993-94 |
Elizabeth Stetson Dowd ’53 | 1992-93 |
Robert C. Eubanks Jr. ’61 | 1991-92 |
Wade M. Smith ’60 (’63 LLBJD) | 1990-91 |
Thomas W. Lambeth ’57 | 1989-90 |
William M. Cochrane ’37 (’41 LLBJD) | 1988-89 |
James G. Exum Jr. ’57 | 1987-88 |
James A. Harrell Sr. ’44 | 1986-87 |
S. Philip Harris Jr. ’54 | 1985-86 |
Ralph N. Strayhorn Jr. ’47 (’50 LLBJD) | 1984-85 |
David L. Grigg ’61 | 1983-84 |
Edward L. Rankin Jr. ’40 | 1982-83 |
Ray S. Farris Jr. ’62 (’67 JD) | 1981-82 |
John T. Church ’42 | 1980-81 |
John Dewey Dorsett Jr. ’47 (’49 CMED) | 1979-80 |
Harold Kimsey Bennett ’35 (’37 LLB) | 1978-79 |
William Burwell Harrison Sr. ’35 | 1977-78 |
Grace Rutledge Hamrick ’41 | 1976-77 |
John Franklin Alspaugh ’47 | 1975-76 |
Lindsay Carter Warren Jr. ’46 (’51 JD) | 1974-75 |
James Boyce Garland ’41 (’46 LLB) | 1973-74 |
Emanuel Joshua Evans ’28 | 1972-73 |
Charles Grandison Rose Jr. ’33 | 1971-72 |
Wilburn Jackson Smith Jr. ’43 | 1970-71 |
Harry Howard Montgomery ’36 | 1969-70 |
George Watts Carr Jr. ’40 | 1968-69 |
Morris Carey Benton Jr. ’38 | 1967-68 |
Vermont Connecticut Royster ’35 | 1966-67 |
Daniel Edward Hudgins Sr. ’28 | 1965-66 |
Hugh MacRae Morton ’43 | 1964-65 |
Horatio Nelson Woodson ’29 (’32 LLBJD) | 1963-64 |
Meade Homer Willis Jr. ’31 | 1962-63 |
James Evans Davis ’40 (’42 CMED) | 1961-62 |
Haywood Dail Holderness ’31 | 1960-61 |
Kenneth Claiborne Royall (class of 1914) | 1959-60 |
Thomas Willis Alexander Jr. ’32 | 1958-59 |
James Webb ’26 | 1957-58 |
Robert Mayne Albright ’31 (’34 MA, ’36 JD) | 1956-57 |
John William Harden ’27 | 1955-56 |
William Haywood Bobbitt ’21 | 1954-55 |
Walter Frank Taylor (class of 1911, 1914 LLB) | 1953-54 |
Rufus Arthur Spaugh Sr. ’(class of 1920) | 1952-53 |
Edwin Earle Rives ’22 (LLB) | 1951-52 |
James Harold Lineberger ’26 | 1950-51 |
William Haywood Ruffin Sr. ’21 | 1949-50 |
Henry Leonidas Stevens Jr. (class of 1917) | 1948-49 |
Samuel James Ervin Jr. (class of 1917) | 1947-48 |
William Thomas Joyner (class of 1911) | 1945-47 |
William Bradley Umstead (class of 1916) | 1944-45 |
John Motley Morehead III (class of 1891) | 1943-44 |
Lennox Polk McLendon (class of 1912 LLB) | 1942-43 |
William Archie Dees Sr. (class of 1911) | 1941-42 |
Frederick Isler Sutton (class of 1908) | 1940-41 |
Charles Walter Tillett (class of 1909) | 1939-40 |
John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus (class of 1901) | 1938-39 |
George Gullett Stephens (class of 1896) | 1937-38 |
Howard Edward Rondthaler (class of 1893) | 1935-37 |
Hubert Benbury Haywood (class of 1905) | 1934-35 |
John Johnston Parker (class of 1907) | 1933-34 |
Kemp Plummer Lewis (class of 1900) | 1931-33 |
Charles Felix Harvey (class of 1892) | 1931 |
William Thomas Shore (class of 1905) | 1929-31 |
Alexander Boyd Andrews (class of 1893) | 1927-29 |
Alfred Moore Scales (class of 1892) | 1926-27 |
Walter Parker Stacy (class of 1908) | 1925-26 |
William Nash Everett (class of 1886) | 1924-25 |
Walter Murphy (class of 1892) | 1922-24 |
Albert Lyman Cox (class of 1904) | 1921-22 |
Robert Digges Wimberley Connor (class of 1899) | 1917-21 |
Julian Shakespeare Carr (class of 1866) | 1912-17 |
Walter Leak Steele (class of 1844) | 1887–90 |
Thomas Stephen Kenan (class of 1857) | 1885, 1891–1911 |
Bartholomew Figures Moore (class of 1820) | 1859–80 |
Charles Lewis Hinton (class of 1814) | 1858 |
Paul Carrington Cameron (class of 1828) | 1857, 1881–84, 1886 |
James Mebane (class of 1799) | 1856 |
John Davis Hawkins (class of 1801) | 1855 |
Charles Manly (class of 1814) | 1850–54 |
John Motley Morehead (class of 1817) | 1843–49 |
* 1994 was the first year the title “GAA chair” was used rather than “GAA president.”