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Officers & Directors

The Academy’s Board of Directors consists of five officers and six directors. The Board sets strategic direction and policy, provides oversight and direction committees and day-to-day operations.

Current Officers Expand

President

Deanne E. Maynard (DC)

President-Elect

Amy Levin Weil (GA)

Treasurer

Edward G. Guedes (FL)

Secretary

Adam H. Charnes (TX)

Immediate Past President

Gregory C. Dyekman (WY)

 

 
Current Directors Expand

December 2025

Wallace B. Jefferson (TX)

December 2026

Elizabeth O. White (NV)

December 2026

Marcy G. Glenn (CO)

December 2026

Benjamin G. Shatz (CA)

December 2027

Tillman Breckenridge (DC)

December 2027

Anne M. Voigts (CA)
Past Presidents Expand

2023

Warren W. Harris (TX)

2022

Daniel F. Polsenberg (NV)

2021

Kevin H. Dubose (TX)

2020

Howard M Goodfriend (WA)

2019

Matthew H. Lembke (AL)

2018

Diane B. Bratvold (MN)

2017

Susan M. Freeman (AZ)

2016

Nancy Winkelman (PA)

2015

Charles Bird (CA)*

2014

James C. Martin (PA)

2013

Roger D. Townsend (TX)

2012

Wendy Cole Lascher (CA)

2011

Donald B. Ayer (DC)

2010

Karen L. Kendall (IL)

2009

Timothy J. Berg (AZ)

2008

Catherine Wright Smith (WA)

2007

Charles E. Carpenter (SC)

2006

Kathleen McCree Lewis (MI)*

2005

David Herr (MN)*

2004

Michael J. Meehan (AZ)

2003

Kenneth C. Bass III (DC)*

2002

Sidney K. Powell (TX)

2001

Peter W. Davis (CA)

2000

Alan B. Morrison (DC)

1999

Eric J. Magnuson (MN)

1998

Sanford Svetcov (CA)*

1997

Sylvia Walbolt (FL)

1996

Luther T. Munford (MS)

1995

Malcolm Edwards (WA)*

1994

Mark I. Harrison (AZ)*

1992-1993

E. Barrett Prettyman Jr. (DC)*

1990-1991

Arthur J. England Jr. (FL)*
* = deceased

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