Presidents

ADA presidents serve year-long terms. They're elected to uphold our mission and support our members.

Dr. Kessler, ADA President 2024-2025

ADA presidents

2024-present
2024-present
Dr. Brett Kessler
2023-2024
2023-2024
Linda J. Edgar

2022-2023
2022-2023
George R. Shepley
2021-2022
2021-2022

Cesar R. Sabates

2020-2021
2020-21

Daniel J. Klemmedson

2000-2020
2019-20

Chad P. Gehani

2018-19

Jeffrey M. Cole

2017-18

Joseph P. Crowley

2016-17

Gary L. Roberts

2015-16

Carol Gomez Summerhays

2014-15

Maxine Feinberg

2013-14

Charles H. Norman III

2012-13

Robert A. Faiella

2011-12

William R. Calnon

2010-11

Raymond F. Gist

2009-10

Ronald L. Tankersley

2008-09

John S. Findley

2007-08

Mark Feldman

2006-07

Kathleen S. Roth

2005-06

Robert M. Brandjord

2004-05

W. Richard Haught

2003-04

Eugene Sekiguchi

2002-03

T. Howard Jones

2001-02

D. Gregory Chadwick

2000-01

Robert M. Anderton

1980-2000
1999-00

Richard F. Mascola

1998-99

S. Timothy Rose

1997-98

David A. Whiston

1996-97

A. Gary Rainwater

1995-96

William S. Ten Pas

1994-95

Richard W. D’Eustachio

1993-94

James H. Gaines

1992-93

Jack H. Harris

1991-92

Geraldine T. Morrow

1990-91

Eugene J. Truono

1989-90

R. Malcolm Overbey

1988-89

Arthur A. Dugoni

1987-88

James A. Saddoris

1986-87
1985-86

Abraham Kobren

1984-85

John L. Bomba

1983-84

Donald E. Bentley

1982-83

Burton H. Press

1981-82

Robert H. Griffiths

1980-81

John J. Houlihan

1960-1980
1979-1980

I. Lawrence Kerr

1978-79

Joseph P. Cappuccio

1977-78

Frank P. Bowyer

1976-77

Frank F. Shuler

1975-76

Robert B. Shira

1974-75

Lynden M. Kennedy

1973-74

Carlton H. Williams

1972-73

Louis A. Saporito

1971-72

Carl A. Laughlin

1970-71

John M. Deines

1969-70

Harry M. Klenda

1968-69

Hubert A. McGuirl

1967-68

F. Darl Ostrander

1966-67

William A. Garrett

1965-66

Maynard K. Hine

2012

Fritz A. Pierson

1963-64

James P. Hollers

1962-63

Gerald D. Timmons

1961-62

John R. Abel

1960-61

Charles H. Patton

1940-1960
1959-60

Paul H. Jeserich

1958-59

Percy T. Phillips

1957-58

William R. Alstadt

1956-57

Harry Lyons

1955-56

Bernerd C. Kingsbury

1954-55

Daniel F. Lynch

1953-54

Leslie M. Fitzgerald

1952-53

Otto W. Brandhorst

1951-52

LeRoy M. Ennis

1950-51

Harold W. Oppice

1949-50

Philip E. Adams

1948-49

Clyde E. Minges

1947-48

Harvey B. Washburn

1946-47

Sterling V. Mead

1944-46

Walter H. Scherer

1943-44

Charles R. Wells

1942-43

J. Ben Robinson

1941-42

Oren A. Oliver

1940-41

Wilfred H. Robinson

1920-1940
1939-40

Arthur H. Merritt

1938-39

Marcus L. Ward

1937-38

C. Willard Camalier

1936-37

Leroy M. S. Miner

1935-36

George B. W. Winter

1934-35

Frank M. Casto

1933-34

Arthur C. Wherry

1932-33

George W. Dittmar

1931-32

Martin Dewey

1930-31

Robert T. Oliver

1929-30

Robert B. Bogle

1928-29

Percy R. Howe

1927-28

Roscoe H. Volland

1926-27

Henry L. Banzhaf

1925-26

Sheppard W. Foster

1924-25

Charles N. Johnson

1963

William A. Giffen

1922-23

John P. Buckley

1921-22

Thomas B. Hartzell

1920-21

H. Edmund Friesell

1900-1920
1919-20

John V. B. Conzett

1918-19

Clement V. Vignes

1917-18

William H. G. Logan

1916-17

Lafayette L. Barber

1915-16

Thomas P. Hinman

1914-15

Donald M. Gallie

1913-14

Homer C. Brown

1912-13

Frank O. Hetrick

1911-12

Arthur R. Melendy

1910-11

Edward S. Gaylord

1909-10

Burton L. Thorpe

1908-09

Vines E. Turner

1907-08

William Carr

1906-07

Adelbert H. Peck

1905-06

Mark F. Finley

1904-05

Waldo E. Boardman

1903-04

Charles C. Chittenden

1902-03

Llewellyn G. Noel

1901-02

James A. Libbey

1900-01

Greene V. Black

1880-1900
1899-00

B. Holly Smith

1898-99

Harvey J. Burkhart

1897-98

Thomas Fillebrown

1896-97

James Truman

1894-96

James Y. Crawford

1892-94

John D. Patterson

1891-92

William W. Walker

1890-91

Alison W. Harlan

1889-90

Matthew W. Foster

1888-89

Charles R. Butler

1887-88

Dr. Frank Abbot, of New York City, was elected twenty­ seventh president of the Association at the 1887 meeting at Niagara Falls.

1886-87

Walter W. Allport

1885-86

William C. Barrett

1884-85

John N. Crouse

1883-84

Edwin T. Darby

1882-83

William H. Goddard

1881-82

Henry A. Smith

1880-81

Cyrus N. Peirce

1860-1880
1875-76

Aaron L. Northrop

1874-75

Mason S. Dean

1873-74

Thomas L. Buckingham

1872-73

Phineas G. C. Hunt

1871-72

George H. Cushing

1870-71

William H. Morgan

1869-70

Homer Judd

1868-69

Jonathan Taft

1867-68

Ambrose Lawrence

1866-67

Chauncy P. Fitch

1865-66

Christopher W. Spalding

1864-65

John H. McQuillen

1861

William H. Allen

1862-1863

George Watt

1860-62

William H. Atkinson