The past presidents of NCFR, in reverse chronological order, are:

• 2021-2023: Norma J. Bond Burgess
• 2019-2021 Leigh A. Leslie
• 2017-2019 Anisa M. Zvonkovic
• 2015-17 William D. Allen
• 2013-15 Paul R. Amato
• 2011-13 Elaine A. Anderson
• 2009-11 Gary L. Bowen
• 2007-09 Maxine Hammonds-Smith (deceased)
• 2004-07 Pamela A. Monroe*
• 2003-05 Gay C. Kitson (deceased)
• 2001-03 Carol A. Darling, CFLE
• 1999-2001 Stephen R. Jorgensen
• 1998-99 William J. Doherty, CFLE
• 1997-98 Greer Litton Fox
• 1996-97 Pauline Boss
• 1995-96 Michael J. Sporakowski, CFLE (deceased)
• 1994-95 Alexis J.Walker (deceased)
• 1993-94 Harriette Pipes McAdoo (deceased)
• 1992-93 Patricia Kain Knaub
• 1991-92 Brent C. Miller
• 1990-91 Lynda Henley Walters
• 1989-90 M. Janice Hogan-Schiltgen
• 1988-89 David H. Olson
• 1987-88 Graham B. Spanier
• 1986-87 Hamilton I. McCubbin
• 1985-86 Joan Aldous
• 1984-85 Sharon J. Price
• 1983-84 Bert N. Adams (deceased)
• 1982-83 James Walters (deceased)
• 1981-82 Wesley R. Burr
• 1980-81 Kate Garner (deceased)
• 1979-80 Ira L. Reiss
• 1978-79 Paul C. Glick (deceased)
• 1977-78 Gerhard Neubeck (deceased)
• 1976-77 William C. Nichols Jr. (deceased)
• 1975-76 Carlfred B. Broderick (deceased)
• 1974-75 Richard K. Kerckhoff (deceased)
• 1973-74 Leland J.Axelson (deceased)
• 1972-73 Murray A. Straus (deceased)
• 1971-72 Eleanore B. Luckey (deceased)
• 1970-71 Gerald R. Leslie (deceased)
• 1969-70 Richard N. Hey (deceased)
• 1968-69 Elizabeth Force (deceased)
• 1967-68 William F. Kenkel (deceased)
• 1966-67 William M. Smith Jr. (deceased)
• 1965-66 F. Ivan Nye (deceased)
• 1964-65 Clark Vincent (deceased)
• 1963-64 Blaine R. Porter
• 1962-63 Wallace C. Fulton (deceased)
• 1961-62 David Mace (deceased)
• 1960-61 Harold T. Christensen (deceased)
• 1959-60 Aaron Rutledge (deceased)
• 1958-59 Henry Bowman (deceased)
• 1957-58 Mildred I. Morgan (deceased)
• 1956-57 David Treat (deceased)
• 1955-56 Judson Landis (deceased)
• 1955 Gladys Groves (deceased)
• 1954 Dorothy Dyer (deceased)
• 1952-53 Robert Foster (deceased)
• 1951-52 John O'Grady (deceased)
• 1950-51 Nadina Kavinoky (deceased)
• 1948-50 Ernest G. Osborne (deceased)
• 1946-48 Lawrence Frank (deceased)
• 1944-46 Sidney Goldstein (deceased)
• 1942-44 Ernest W. Burgess (deceased)
• 1940-42 Ernest Groves (deceased)
• 1939-40 Adolf Meyer (deceased)
• 1938-39 Paul Sayre (deceased)

*acting president 2004-05

To find information about NCFR's current president and board of directors, please visit the current board of directors webpage.