List of Presidents of the American Bar Association
Presidents

List of Presidents of the American Bar Association

Section Title: Presidents
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#	Name	Term	State	Comments	Ref.

1	James O. Broadhead	1878–1879	Missouri	American Bar Association co-founder

2	Benjamin H. Bristow	1879–1880	New York

3	Edward John Phelps	1880–1881	Vermont

4	Clarkson Nott Potter	1881–1882	New York	Former Congressman

5	Alexander Lawton	1882–1883	Georgia

6	Cortlandt Parker	1883–1884	New Jersey

7	John W. Stevenson	1884–1885	Kentucky	Governor/Senator

8	William Allen Butler	1885–1886	New York

9	Thomas J. Semmes	1886–1887	Louisiana

10	George G. Wright	1887–1888	Iowa	former Senator

11	David Dudley Field	1888–1889	New York

12	Henry Hitchcock	1889–1890	Missouri	American Bar Association co-founder

13	Simeon Eben Baldwin	1890–1891	Connecticut

14	John Forrest Dillon	1891–1892	New York

15	John Randolph Tucker	1892–1893	Virginia

16	Thomas Cooley	1893–1894	Michigan

17	James C. Carter	1894–1895	New York

18	Moorfield Storey	1895–1896	Massachusetts

19	James M. Woolworth	1896–1897	Nebraska

20	William Wirt Howe	1897–1898	Louisiana

21	Joseph H. Choate	1898–1899	New York|

22	Charles F. Manderson	1899–1900	Nebraska	former Senator

23	Edmund Whetmore	1900–1901	New York

24	U.M. Rose	1901–1902	Arkansas

25	Francis Rawle	1902-1903	Pennsylvania

26	James Hagerman	1902–1903	Missouri

27	Henry St. George Tucker, III	1904–1905	Virginia

28	George R. Peck	1905–1906	Illinois

29	Alton B. Parker	1906–1907	New York

30	Jacob M. Dickinson	1907–1908	Illinois	future United States Secretary of War

31	Frederick William Lehmann	1908–1910	Missouri	Future US Solicitor General

32	Charles F. Libby	1909-1910	Maine

33	Edgar Howard Farrar	1910–1911	Louisiana

34	Stephen S. Gregory	1911-1912	Illinois

35	Frank B. Kellogg	1912–1913	Minnesota	Future US Secretary of State

36	William Howard Taft	1913–1914	District of Columbia	Former US President Future US Supreme Court Chief Justice

37	Peter W. Meldrim	1914-1915	Georgia

38	Elihu Root	1915-1916	New York

39	George Sutherland	1916–1917	Utah	Future US Supreme Court Justice

40	Walter George Smith	1917–1918	Pennsylvania

41	GeorgeT.Page	1918-1919	Illinois

42	Hampton L. Carson	1919–1921	Pennsylvania

43	William A. Biount	1920-1921	Florida

44	Cordenio A. Severance	1921–1922	Minnesota

45	John W. Davis	1922-1923	New York

46	R. E. L. Saner	1923-1924	Texas

47	Charles E. Hughes	1925–1926	New York	Future US Supreme Court Chief Justice

48	Chester Isaiah Long	1926-1927	Kansas

49	Charles S. Whitman	1926-1927	New York

50	Silas H. Strawn	1927-1928	Illinois

51	Gurney E. Newlin	1928-1929	California

52	Henry Upson Sims	1929-1930	Alabama

53	Josiah Marvel	1930-1931	Delaware

54	Charles A. Boston	1930-1931	New York

55	Guy A. Thompson	1931-1932	Missouri

56	Clarence E. Martin	1932-1933	West Virginia

57	Earle W. Evans	1933-1934	Kansas

58	Scott M. Loftin	1934–1935	Florida

59	William L. Ransom	1935–1936	New York

60	Frederick Harold Stinchfield	1936–1937	Minnesota

61	Arthur T. Vanderbilt	1937–1938	New Jersey

62	Frank J. Hogan	1938–1939	District of Columbia

63	Charles A. Beardsley	1939–1940	California

64	Jacob M. Lashly	1940–1941	Missouri

65	Walter P. Armstrong	1941–1942	Tennessee

66	George Maurice Morris	1942–1943	District of Columbia

67	Joseph W. Henderson	1943–1944	Pennsylvania

68	David A. Simmons	1944–1945	Texas

69	Willis Smith	1945–1946	North Carolina

70	Carl B. Rix	1946–1947	Wisconsin

71	Tappan Gregory	1947–1948	Illinois

72	Frank E. Holman	1948–1949	District of Columbia

73	Harold J. Gallagher	1949–1950	New York

74	Cody Fowler	1950–1951	Florida

75	Howard L. Barkdull	1951–1952	Ohio

76	Robert G. Storey	1952–1953	Texas

77	William James Jameson	1953–1954	Montana

78	Loyd Wright	1954–1955	California

79	E. Smythe Gambrell	1955–1956	Georgia

80	David Farrow Maxwell	1956–1957	Pennsylvania

81	Charles S. Rhyne	1957–1958	District of Columbia

82	Ross L. Malone, Jr.	1958–1959	New Mexico	Former Deputy Attorney General, 1952–53

83	John D. Randall	1959–1960	Iowa

84	Whitney N. Seymour, Sr.	1960–1961	New York	Former Assistant Solicitor General, 1931–33

85	John C. Satterfield	1961–1962	Mississippi

86	Sylvester C. Smith, Jr.	1962–1963	New Jersey

87	Walter E. Craig	1963–1964	Arizona

88	Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.	1964–1965	Virginia	Future US Supreme Court Justice

89	Edward W. Kuhn	1965–1966	Tennessee

90	Orison S. Marden	1966–1967	New York

91	Earl F. Morris	1967–1968	Ohio

92	William T. Gossett	1968–1969	Michigan

93	Bernard Segal	1969–1970	Pennsylvania

94	Edward L. Wright	1970–1971	Arkansas

95	Leon Jaworski	1971–1972	Texas

96	Robert W. Meserve	1972–1973	Massachusetts

97	Chesterfield Smith	1973–1974	Florida

98	James D. Fellers	1974–1975	Oklahoma

99	Lawrence E. Walsh	1975–1976	New York

100	Justin A. Stanley	1976–1977	Illinois

101	William B. Spann, Jr.	1977–1978	Georgia

102	S. Shepherd Tate	1978–1979	Tennessee

103	Leonard S. Janofsky	1979–1980	California

104	William Reece Smith, Jr.	1980–1981	Florida

105	David R. Brink	1981–1982	Minnesota

106	Morris Harrell	1982–1983	Texas

107	Wallace D. Riley	1983-1984	Michigan

108	John C. Shepherd	1984-1985	Missouri

109	William W. Falsgraf	1983–1985	Ohio

110	Eugene C. Thomas	1986–1987	Idaho

111	Robert MacCrate	1987–1988	New York

112	Robert D. Raven	1988-1989	California

113	L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr.	1988–1989	Kentucky

114	John J. Curtin, Jr.	1990–1991	Massachusetts

115	Sandy D'Alemberte	1991–1992	Florida	Future president of FSU

116	J. Michael McWilliams	1992-1993	Maryland

117	R. William Ide, III	1994–1995	Georgia

118	George Edward Bushnell Jr.	1994–1995	Michigan

119	Roberta Cooper Ramo	1995–1996	New Mexico	First female president

120	N. Lee Cooper	1996–1997	Alabama

121	Jerome J. Shestack	1997–1998	Pennsylvania

122	Philip S. Anderson	1998-1999	Arkansas

123	William G. Paul	1999–2000	Oklahoma

124	Martha W. Barnett	2000–2001	Florida

125	Robert Edward Hirshon	2001–2002	Michigan

126	Alfred P. Carlton Jr.	2002–2003	North Carolina

127	Dennis W. Archer	2003–2004	Michigan	First African-American president

128	Robert J. Grey, Jr.	2004–2005	Virginia

129	Michael S. Greco	2005–2006	Massachusetts	First foreign-born president

130	Karen J. Mathis	2006–2007	Pennsylvania

131	William H. Neukom	2007–2008	California

132	H. Thomas Wells Jr.	2008–2009	Alabama

133	Carolyn B. Lamm	2009–2010	District of Columbia

134	Stephen N. Zack	2010–2011	Florida

135	William T. Robinson III	2011–2012	Kentucky

136	Laurel G. Bellows	2012–2013	Illinois

137	James R. Silkenat	2013–2014	New York

138	William C. Hubbard	2014–2015	South Carolina

139	Paulette Brown	2015–2016	New Jersey	First woman of color

140	Linda Klein	2016–2017	Georgia

141	Hilarie Bass	2017–2018	Florida

142	Bob Carlson	2018-2019	Montana

Sentence(s)

William C. Hubbard served as President of the American Bar Association in 2014–15.

final_sentence: William C. Hubbard served as President of the American Bar Association in 2014–15.