Since 1913, our Section has had an impressive succession of leaders administering the organization. We greatly appreciate all that these past presidents have done to bring about the organization we have today.
| Term | President |
| 2009-10 | Kristen Bowman Kavanagh |
| 2008-09 | Mark Tiger |
| 2007-08 | James P. Markham |
| 2006-07 | Carol C. Martsolf |
| 2005-06 | Christopher J. Menna |
| 2004-05 | Brian A. Stover |
| 2003-04 | Allan F. Moore, Jr. |
| 2002-03 | Ruben D David |
| 2001-02 | Chris L Rood |
| 2000-01 | Thomas J Branigan |
| 1999-00 | Faruq M A Siddiqui |
| 1998-99 | Sandra J May |
| 1997-98 | Darin L Gatti |
| 1996-97 | Alvin Zion |
| 1995-96 | William G Richards |
| 1994-95 | William T Thomsen |
| 1993-94 | Robert M Wright |
| 1992-93 | Klaus K Fuelleborn |
| 1991-92 | Moustafa A Gouda |
| 1990-91 | Frank J Depman |
| 1989-90 | J Richard Weggel |
| 1988-89 | Susan K Lior |
| 1987-88 | Norman G Weintraub |
| 1986-87 | Albert M Tantala |
| 1985-86 | Ira N Pierce |
| 1984-85 | John E Durrant |
| 1983-84 | William M Malarkey |
| 1982-83 | Bernard M McNamee |
| 1981-82 | Frederic Roll |
| 1980-81 | Joseph R Syrnick |
| 1979-80 | Kenneth J Zitomer |
| 1978-79 | C R "Chuck" Pennoni |
| 1977-78 | Brian J Lewis |
| 1976-77 | Will M Heiser |
| 1975-76 | Robert M Koerner |
| 1974-75 | Alfred O Quinn |
| 1973-74 | Robert O Drange |
| 1972-73 | Bruno J Talvacchia |
| 1971-72 | Lawrence M Moy |
| 1970-71 | John E McCall |
| 1969-70 | James W McPhillips |
| 1968-69 | Richard deCharms |
| 1967-68 | Milton W Rothbaum |
| 1966-67 | Frank R Rennis |
| 1965-66 | Richard Z Zimmerman |
| 1964-65 | Joseph R Farrell Jr |
| 1963-64 | Ranald V Giles |
| 1962-63 | Sidney Robin |
| 1961-62 | William Padlasky |
| 1960-61 | John J Gallen |
| 1959-60 | Alfred A Estrada |
| 1958-59 | Harry B Vaughan |
| 1957-58 | John H Ferguson |
| 1956-57 | Victor G Thomassen |
| 1955-56 | Blair Birdsall |
| 1954-55 | Joseph R Farrell |
| 1953-54 | Samuel T Carpenter |
| 1952-53 | Joseph A Schulcz |
| 1951-52 | Samuel S Baxter |
| 1950-51 | Oliver W Hartwell |
| 1949-50 | Neville C Courtney |
| 1948-49 | Edwyn L Shoemaker |
| 1947-48 | Howard K Preston |
| 1946-47 | Lester L Lessig |
| 1945-46 | Francis S Friel |
| 1944-45 | Francis S Friel |
| 1943-44 | Howard T Critchlow |
| 1942-43 | Julius Adler |
| 1941-42 | Charles A Howland |
| 1940-41 | Harry M Freeburn |
| 1939-40 | Scott B Lilly |
| 1938-39 | William Doherty |
| 1937-38 | William H Chorlton |
| 1936-37 | Berthold F Hastings |
| 1935-36 | Charles S Shaughnessey |
| 1934-35 | Isaac S Walker |
| 1933-34 | Sanford W Sawin |
| 1932-33 | C E Myers |
| 1931-32 | James W Follin |
| 1930-31 | William R Scanlin |
| 1929-30 | Robert Farnham |
| 1928-29 | A Zane Hoffman |
| 1927-28 | Charles A Emerson |
| 1926-27 | Clark Dillenbeck |
| 1925-26 | Henry J Sherman |
| 1924-25 | Charles H Stevens |
| 1923-24 | Harrison W Latta |
| 1922-23 | William Easby |
| 1921-22 | Benjamin Franklin |
| 1920-21 | John Meigs |
| 1919-20 | S M Swab |
| 1918-19 | F Herbert Snow |
| 1917-18 | Henry H Quimby |
| 1916-17 | Samuel T Wagner |
| 1915-16 | Edward B Temple |
| 1914-15 | Richard L Humphrey |
| 1913-14 | George S Webster |