Past Presidents
- 2011 - 2012 Larry Gross
- 2010 - 2011 Francois Cooren
- 2009 - 2010 Barbie Zelizer
- 2008 - 2009 Patrice M. Buzzanell
- 2007 - 2008 Sonia Livingstone
- 2006 - 2007 Ronald E. Rice
- 2005 - 2006 Jon F. Nussbaum
- 2004 - 2005 Wolfgang Donsbach
- 2003 - 2004 Robert T. Craig
- 2002 - 2003 Jennings Bryant
- 2001 - 2002 Cindy Gallois
- 2000 - 2001 Joseph N. Cappella
- 1999 - 2000 Linda L. Putnam
- 1998 - 1999 Howard Giles
- 1997 - 1998 Peter Monge
- 1996 - 1997 Stanley A. Deetz
- 1995 - 1996 Charles R. Berger
- 1994 - 1995 Bradley S. Greenberg
- 1993 - 1994 Akiba A. Cohen
- 1992 - 1993 Ellen Wartella
- 1991 - 1992 Mary Anne Fitzpatrick
- 1990 - 1991 Margaret L. McLaughlin
- 1989 - 1990 Jay George Blumler
- 1988 - 1989 Phillip K. Tompkins
- 1987 - 1988 L. Edna Rogers
- 1986 - 1987 B. Aubrey Fisher (Deceased)
- 1985 - 1986 Brenda Dervin
- 1984 - 1985 Klaus Krippendorff
- 1983 - 1984 James A. Anderson
- 1982 - 1983 Erwin P. Bettinghaus
- 1981 - 1982 Steve Chaffee (Deceased)
- 1980 - 1981 Everett M. Rogers (Deceased)
- 1979 - 1980 Gerald R. Miller (Deceased)
- 1978 - 1979 Frederick D. Williams (Deceased)
- 1977 - 1978 Robert J. Kibler (Deceased)
- 1976 - 1977 Richard W. Budd
- 1975 - 1976 Mark L. Knapp
- 1974 - 1975 Nathan Maccoby (Deceased)
- 1973 - 1974 Alfred G. Smith (Deceased)
- 1972 - 1973 Malcolm S. MacLean (Deceased)
- 1971 - 1972 Ronald L. Smith (Deceased)
- 1970 - 1971 R. Wayne Pace
- 1969 - 1970 Robert S. Goyer
- 1968 - 1969 Darrell T. Piersol
- 1967 - 1968 Lee Thayer
- 1966 - 1967 Frank E. X. Dance
- 1965 - 1966 Harold P. Zelko (Deceased)
- 1964 - 1965 Clarence J. Dover (Deceased)
- 1963 - 1964 James I. Brown
- 1962 - 1963 W. Charles Redding (Deceased)
- 1961 - 1962 John B. Haney
- 1960 - 1961 Thorrel Fest (Deceased)
- 1959 - 1960 Wesley Wiksell
- 1958 - 1959 Francis A. Cartier
- 1957 - 1958 Donald E. Bird
- 1956 - 1957 Thomas R. Lewis
- 1955 - 1956 Kenneth A. Harwood
- 1954 - 1955 Burton H. Byers (Deceased)
- 1953 - 1954 Kenneth Clark
- 1952 - 1953 Herold Lillywhite
- 1951 - 1952 Elwood Murray (Deceased)
- 1950 - 1951 Ralph G. Nichols (Deceased)
- 1949 - 1950 Paul D. Bagwell (Deceased)
