Past Presidents

2020 – Today

2024-2025 Rick Riley

2023-2024 Mitchell Dobson, CPO
2022-2023 Teri Kuffel, JD
2021-2022 Dave McGill
2020-2021 Traci Dralle, CFm

2010 – 2019

2019-2020 Jeff Lutz, CPO
2017-2019 Jim Weber, MBA
2016-2017 Michael Oros, CPO, LPO, FAAOP
2015-2016 James Campbell, PhD, CO, FAAOP
2014-2015 Charles Dankmeyer, Jr., CPO
2013-2014 Anita Liberman-Lampear, MA
2012-2013 Thomas F. Kirk, PhD
2010-2012 Thomas DiBello,CO, FAAOP

2000 – 2009

2009-2010 James Kaiser, CP
2008-2009 Brian L.Gustin, CP
2007-2008 Bradley N. Ruhl
2006-2007 Ronald “Ted” Snell, CP
2005-2006 Walter L. Racette, CPO
2004-2005 Michael E. Hamontree
2003-2004 Keith D. Cornell, CP, BOCO, FAAOP
2002-2003 Jon P. Leimkuehler, CPO, FAAOP
2001-2002 David C. Schultz, CPO
2000-2001 Thomas H. Watson, CP

1990s

1999-2000 C. Michael Schuch, CPO, FAAOP
1998-1999 Ralph (Ronney) R. Snell, CPO, FAAOP
1997-1998 William W. DeToro, CO
1996-1997 Anthony J. Filippis, CPO
1995-1996 S. Dwayne Mullins, CPO
1994-1995 Rudolf B. Becker, III
1993-1994 H.E. Ted Thranhardt, CPO (E)
1992-1993 John M. Yarbrough
1991-1992 Donald E. Hardin
1990-1991 David C. Schultz, CPO

1980s

1989-1990 Gregory F. Scott, CP
1988-1989 Larry R. Bradshaw
1987-1988 Bradley C. Rosenberger, CPO, FAAOP
1986-1987 Franklin M. Floyd, CPO
1985-1986 William B. Smith, CO
1984-1985 Joseph M. Cestaro, CPO
1983-1984 Gene C. Jones
1982-1983 Garvin D. Marty
1981-1982 Thomas R. Bart, CO (E)
1980-1981 John E. Eschen, CPO

1970s

1979-1980 William D. Hamilton, CP
1978-1979 William M. Brady CP(E)
1977-1978 Daniel G. Rowe, CPO
1976-1977 Ben B. Moss
1975-1976 Howard R. Thranhardt, CP(E)
1974-1975 Ralph (Ronney) R. Snell, CPO, FAAOP
1973-1974 Robert V. Bush, CPO
1972-1973 Claude J. Lambert, CPO
1971-1972 Mary S. Dorsch, CPO
1970-1971 Roy Snelson, CPO(E)

1960s

1969-1970 William L. Bartels, CO(E)
1968-1969 Michael P. Cestaro
1967-1968 Alvin P. Muilenberg, CPO
1966-1967 George H. Lambert Sr.,CPO
1965-1966 Fred J. Eschen, CPO
1964-1965 Herbert J. Hart, CPO
1963-1964 Robert C. Gruman, CP(E)
1962-1963 Carlton E. Fillauer, CPO
1961-1962 Fred Quisenberry, CPO
1960-1961 Ralph Storrs, CO(E)

1950s

1959-1960 Paul E. Leimkuehler, CP
1958-1959 Karl Buschenfeldt, CO
1957-1958 John A. McCann
1956-1957 Charles A. Hennessy, CPO
1955-1956 W. Frank Harmon, CO
1954-1955 McCarthy Hanger, Jr.
1952-1954 Lee Fawver, CPO(E)
1951-1952 Lucius Trautman, CPO

1940s

1949-1950 Daniel A. McKeever, CP
1948-1949 Adelbert P. Gruman
1946-1948 Walter R. Sievers
1940-1946 Chester C. Hadden, CPO

1930s

1936-1939 Clyde Aunger, CP
1934-1936 Joseph Spievak, CP
1932-1934 Lowell Jepson
1930-1932 McCarthy Hanger Sr.

1920s and Earlier

1928-1929 H. T. Odgers
1925-1927 Chester B. Winn
1924-1925 McCarthy Hanger Sr.
1923-1924 James F. Rowley
1921-1923 Charles W. Frees
1920-1921 Thomas C. Moore
1917-1919 George E. Marks

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