2019 – Present
Sunil Panikkath

2013 – 2018
Rebecca Hale

2009 – 2012
David Niose

Honorary President, April 2009 to his death July 31, 2012
Gore Vidal

2003 – 2008
Mel Lipman

1995 – 2002
Edd Doerr

March 1993 – 1994
Michael W. Werner

Honorary President, May 1992 to his death April 11, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut

April 6, 1992 – Feb. 1993
Suzanne I. Paul

1985 to his death April 6, 1992
Isaac Asimov

1980 – 1984
Lyle L. Simpson

June 1979 to 1980
Louis R. Gomberg

1973 – May 1979
Bette Chambers

1969 – 1972
Lloyd L. Morain

1966 – 1968
Robert W. McCoy

1962 – 1965
Vashti McCollum

1959 – 1961
George L. Axtelle

1956 – 1958
Hermann J. Muller

1951 – 1955
Lloyd L. Morain

1949 – 1950
Curtis W. Reese

1947 – 1948
J. Hutton Hynd

1944 – 1946
E. Burdette Backus

1941 – 1943
Raymond B. Bragg