List of presidents of the American Bar Association

This list of the presidents of the American Bar Association includes all presidents of the association, which was formed in 1878 to represent the interests of lawyers, and create and maintain a code of ethics. Since 1923, the ABA has accredited law schools. The American Bar Association is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.

The association comprises 410,000 members, who are represented by a House of Delegates, the organization's primary body, which acts to create and adopt new policies and recommendations pertaining to the practice of law. The House of Delegates and the association itself are headed by the President, who generally serves a one-year term.

Presidents edit

The organization's seventh president, John W. Stevenson, served from 1884 to 1885.
One of its co-founders, Henry Hitchcock, was also the A.B.A.'s twelfth president, serving from 1889 to 1890.
Charles F. Manderson was the association's president in 1900.
William Howard Taft is better known as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Chester Isaiah Long was formerly a member of both the US House of Representatives and Senate from the state of Kansas.
After serving as president from 1964 to 1965, Lewis Powell, Jr. became a Supreme Court Justice.
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1James O. Broadhead1878–1879MissouriAmerican Bar Association co-founder[1]
2Benjamin H. Bristow1879–1880New York[2]
3Edward John Phelps1880–1881Vermont
4Clarkson Nott Potter1881–1882New YorkFormer Congressman
5Alexander Lawton1882–1883Georgia
6Cortlandt Parker1883–1884New Jersey
7John W. Stevenson1884–1885KentuckyGovernor/Senator
8William Allen Butler1885–1886New York
9Thomas J. Semmes1886–1887Louisiana
10George G. Wright1887–1888Iowaformer Senator
11David Dudley Field1888–1889New York
12Henry Hitchcock1889–1890MissouriAmerican Bar Association co-founder[3]
13Simeon E. Baldwin1890–1891Connecticut
14John Forrest Dillon1891–1892New York
15John Randolph Tucker1892–1893Virginia[4]
16Thomas Cooley1893–1894Michigan
17James C. Carter1894–1895New York
18Moorfield Storey1895–1896Massachusetts
19James M. Woolworth1896–1897Nebraska
20William Wirt Howe1897–1898Louisiana
21Joseph H. Choate1898–1899New York|
22Charles F. Manderson1899–1900Nebraskaformer Senator[5]
23Edmund Wetmore1900–1901New York[6]
24U.M. Rose1901–1902Arkansas
25Francis Rawle1902-1903Pennsylvania
26James Hagerman1902–1903Missouri[3]
27Henry St. George Tucker, III1904–1905Virginia[7]
28George R. Peck1905–1906Illinois[8]
29Alton B. Parker1906–1907New York[9]
30Jacob M. Dickinson1907–1908Illinoisfuture United States Secretary of War
31Frederick William Lehmann1908–1910MissouriFuture US Solicitor General[3]
32Charles F. Libby1909-1910Maine
33Edgar Howard Farrar1910–1911Louisiana[10]
34Stephen S. Gregory1911-1912Illinois
35Frank B. Kellogg1912–1913MinnesotaFuture US Secretary of State
36William Howard Taft1913–1914District of ColumbiaFormer US President
Future US Supreme Court Chief Justice
37Peter W. Meldrim1914-1915Georgia
38Elihu Root1915-1916New York
39George Sutherland1916–1917UtahFuture US Supreme Court Justice
40Walter George Smith1917–1918Pennsylvania
41GeorgeT.Page1918-1919Illinois
42Hampton L. Carson1919–1921Pennsylvania[11]
43William A. Biount1920-1921Florida
44Cordenio A. Severance1921–1922Minnesota
45John W. Davis1922-1923New York
46R. E. L. Saner1923-1924Texas
47Charles E. Hughes1925–1926New YorkFuture US Supreme Court Chief Justice
48Chester Isaiah Long1926-1927Kansas
49Charles S. Whitman1926-1927New York
50Silas H. Strawn1927-1928Illinois
51Gurney E. Newlin1928-1929California
52Henry Upson Sims1929-1930Alabama
53Josiah Marvel1930-1931Delaware
54Charles A. Boston1930-1931New York
55Guy A. Thompson1931-1932Missouri
56Clarence E. Martin1932-1933West Virginia
57Earle W. Evans1933-1934Kansas
58Scott M. Loftin1934–1935Florida
59William L. Ransom1935–1936New York
60Frederick Harold Stinchfield1936–1937Minnesota[12]
61Arthur T. Vanderbilt1937–1938New Jersey
62Frank J. Hogan1938–1939District of Columbia
63Charles A. Beardsley1939–1940California
64Jacob M. Lashley1940–1941Missouri
65Walter P. Armstrong1941–1942Tennessee
66George Maurice Morris1942–1943District of Columbia
67Joseph W. Henderson1943–1944Pennsylvania
68David A. Simmons1944–1945Texas
69Willis Smith1945–1946North Carolina
70Carl B. Rix1946–1947Wisconsin
71Tappan Gregory1947–1948Illinois
72Frank E. Holman1948–1949District of Columbia
73Harold J. Gallagher1949–1950New York
74Cody Fowler1950–1951Florida
75Howard L. Barkdull1951–1952Ohio
76Robert G. Storey1952–1953Texas
77William James Jameson1953–1954Montana
78Loyd Wright1954–1955California
79E. Smythe Gambrell1955–1956Georgia
80David Farrow Maxwell1956–1957Pennsylvania
81Charles S. Rhyne1957–1958District of Columbia
82Ross L. Malone, Jr.1958–1959New MexicoFormer Deputy Attorney General, 1952–53
83John D. Randall1959–1960Iowa
84Whitney N. Seymour, Sr.1960–1961New YorkFormer Assistant Solicitor General, 1931–33
85John C. Satterfield1961–1962Mississippi
86Sylvester C. Smith, Jr.1962–1963New Jersey
87Walter E. Craig1963–1964Arizona
88Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.1964–1965VirginiaFuture US Supreme Court Justice[13]
89Edward W. Kuhn1965–1966Tennessee
90Orison S. Marden1966–1967New York
91Earl F. Morris1967–1968Ohio
92William T. Gossett1968–1969Michigan
93Bernard Segal1969–1970PennsylvaniaFirst Jewish American president[14]
94Edward L. Wright1970–1971Arkansas
95Leon Jaworski1971–1972Texas
96Robert W. Meserve1972–1973Massachusetts[15]
97Chesterfield Smith1973–1974Florida[16]
98James D. Fellers1974–1975Oklahoma
99Lawrence E. Walsh1975–1976New York
100Justin A. Stanley1976–1977Illinois
101William B. Spann, Jr.1977–1978Georgia
102S. Shepherd Tate1978–1979Tennessee
103Leonard S. Janofsky1979–1980California
104William Reece Smith, Jr.1980–1981Florida[16]
105David R. Brink1981–1982Minnesota
106Morris Harrell1982–1983Texas[17]
107Wallace D. Riley1983-1984Michigan
108John C. Shepherd1984-1985Missouri
109William W. Falsgraf1983–1985Ohio[18]
110Eugene C. Thomas1986–1987Idaho
111Robert MacCrate1987–1988New York
112Robert D. Raven1988-1989California
113L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr.1988–1989Kentucky
114John J. Curtin, Jr.1990–1991Massachusetts[19]
115Sandy D'Alemberte1991–1992FloridaFuture president of FSU[16]
116J. Michael McWilliams1992-1993Maryland
117R. William Ide, III1994–1995Georgia[20]
118George Edward Bushnell Jr.1994–1995Michigan[21]
119Roberta Cooper Ramo1995–1996New MexicoFirst female president
[22]
120N. Lee Cooper1996–1997Alabama[23]
121Jerome J. Shestack1997–1998Pennsylvania[24]
122Philip S. Anderson1998-1999Arkansas
123William G. Paul1999–2000Oklahoma[25]
124Martha W. Barnett2000–2001Florida[16]
125Robert Edward Hirshon2001–2002Michigan
126Alfred P. Carlton Jr.2002–2003North Carolina
127Dennis W. Archer2003–2004MichiganFirst African-American president[25]
128Robert J. Grey, Jr.2004–2005Virginia
129Michael S. Greco2005–2006MassachusettsFirst foreign-born president[26]
130Karen J. Mathis2006–2007Pennsylvania[27]
131William H. Neukom2007–2008California[28]
132H. Thomas Wells Jr.2008–2009Alabama[29]
133Carolyn B. Lamm2009–2010District of Columbia[30]
134Stephen N. Zack2010–2011FloridaFirst Hispanic American president[31]
135William T. Robinson III2011–2012Kentucky[32]
136Laurel G. Bellows2012–2013Illinois[33]
137James R. Silkenat2013–2014New York[34]
138William C. Hubbard2014–2015South Carolina
139Paulette Brown2015–2016New JerseyFirst woman of color[35]
140Linda Klein2016–2017Georgia
141Hilarie Bass2017–2018Florida
142Bob Carlson2018-2019Montana
143Judy Perry Martinez2019-2020Louisiana
144Patricia Lee Refo2020-2021Arizona
145Reginald M. Turner2021-2022Michigan
146Deborah Enix-Ross2022-2023New York
147Mary L. Smith2023-2024IllinoisFirst Native American (Cherokee) woman president.[36]

References edit

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Notes and references edit

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  2. ^ Sobel, 1990. p. 44
  3. ^ a b c "BAMSL Members". Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Archived from the original on 2000-10-01. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  4. ^ "Tucker, John Randolph". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  5. ^ "Manderson, Charles Frederick". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  6. ^ "Edmund Whetmore, Noted Lawyer, Dies" (PDF). New York Times. 1918-07-09. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  7. ^ "Tucker, Henry St. George, (1853 - 1932)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  8. ^ "History of the United States Attorney District of Kansas". United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  9. ^ "Alton B. Parker" (PDF). Klyne Esopus Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-11-06. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
  10. ^ Frank Moore Colby; Talcott Williams, eds. (1918). The New international encyclopædia. Vol. 8 (2nd ed.). Dodd, Mead and company. p. 384. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
  11. ^ The Letters of Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) in the Hampton L. Carson Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia
  12. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ^ Lewis F. Powell Jr., Who Became the Quiet Centrist of the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 90 Archived 2007-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Bernard G. Segal Dies at 89; Lawyer for Rich and Poor". The New York Times. 1997-06-05. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  15. ^ New York Times
  16. ^ a b c d UFLaw Leadership Examples Archived August 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ High-Profile Attorneys Positively Impact Dallas Community
  18. ^ Shipp, E. R. (1987-02-17). "A.B.A. Rejects Plan On Tobacco Ad Ban". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  19. ^ Curtin Center for Public Interest Law Dedicated
  20. ^ Rule of Law Initiative Home / Europe & Eurasia (CEELI) 2007-2008 Board Members
  21. ^ PRDI Advisers, Directors & Staff
  22. ^ Rice Makes Personal Donation For Katrina Relief in Mississippi
  23. ^ Members Named to Commission Archived 2008-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
  24. ^ WolfBlock Lawyer to Receive ABA’s Highest Award Archived 2006-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ a b Archer elected as first African-American ABA president
  26. ^ "Michael S. Greco". 2006-02-14. Archived from the original on 2006-02-14. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  27. ^ Karen J. Mathis bio Archived May 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  28. ^ William H. Neukombio Archived August 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  29. ^ H. Thomas Wells, Jr. bio Archived July 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  30. ^ Carolyn B. Lamm bio Archived July 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  31. ^ Stephen N. Zack bio Archived September 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III bio Archived May 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  33. ^ "Laurel G. Bellows bio". Archived from the original on 2013-08-05. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  34. ^ James R. Silkenat Nomination Announcement
  35. ^ "ABA nominates Paulette Brown as first woman of color president". www.americanbar.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  36. ^ "Mary Smith becomes first woman Native American president-elect nominee". www.americanbar.org. Retrieved 2022-04-06.