Previous Presidents

President 1

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1919-1923)

President 2

Dorothy Pelham Beckley (1923-1926)

President 3

Ethel LaMay Calimese (1926-1929)

President 4

Anna Johnson Julian (1929-1931)

President 5

Gladys Bryam Shepperd (1931-1933)

President 6

Jeannette Tripplett Jones (1933-1935)

President 7

Vivian Osborne Marsh (1935-1939)

President 8

Helen Elsie Austin (1939-1944)

President 9

Mae Wright Downs Peck Williams (1944-1947)

President 10

Dorothy Irene Height (1947-1956)

President 11

Dorothy Penman Harrison (1956-1958)

President 12

Jeanne Laveta Noble (1958-1963)

President 13

Geraldine Pittman Woods (1963-1967)

President 14

Frankie Muse Freeman (1967-1971)

President 15

Lillian Pierce Benbow (1971-1975)

President 16

Thelma Thomas Daley (1975-1979)

President 17

Mona Humphries Bailey (1979-1983)

President 18

Elizabeth Hortense Golden Canady (1983-1988)

President 19

Yvonne Kennedy (1988-1992)

President 20

Bertha Maxwell Roddey (1992-1996)

President 21

Marcia Louise Fudge (1996-2000)

President 22

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd (2000-2004)

President 23

Louise Allen Rice (2004-2008)

President 24

Cynthia Marie Antoinette Butler-McIntyre (2008-2013)

President 25

Paulette C. Walker (2013-2017)

President 26

Beverly E. Smith (2017-2021)

President 27

Cheryl Adrienne Hickmon (2021-2022)

President 28

Elsie Cooke-Holmes (2022-Present)