NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION

Past Presidents

More than 100 years of service from the industry’s finest leaders in law

2020s

  • Ashley Upkins (2025–2026)
  • Wiley S. Adams (2024–2025)
  • Dominique D. Calhoun (2023–2024)
  • Lonita K. Baker (2022–2023)
  • Carlos Moore (2021–2022)
  • Tricia “CK” Hoffler (2020–2021)

2010s

  • Alfreda Robinson (2019–2020)
  • Joe Drayton (2018–2019)
  • Juan R. Thomas (2017–2018)
  • Kevin D. Judd (2016–2017)
  • Benjamin L. Crump (2015–2016)
  • Pamela J. Meanes (2014–2015)
  • Patricia Rosier (2013–2014)
  • John E. Page (2012–2013)
  • Daryl D. Parks (2011–2012)
  • Hon. Demetrius D. Shelton (2010–2011)

1990s

  • Harold D. Pope (1999–2000)
  • Beverly McQueary (1998–1999)
  • Randy K. Jones (1997–1998)
  • U. Lawrence Bozé (1996–1997)
  • Keith W. Watters (1995–1996)
  • H.T. Smith (1994–1995)
  • Paulette Brown (1993–1994)
  • Hon. Allen J. Webster, Jr. (1992–1993)
  • Sharon McPhail (1991–1992)
  • Algenita Scott Davis (1990–1991)

1980s

  • Thomas A. Duckenfield (1989–1990)
  • James O. Cole (1988–1989)
  • Dr. Walter L. Sutton, Jr. (1987–1988)
  • Thomas J. Broome (1986–1987)
  • Fred D. Gray (1985–1986)
  • Arthenia L. Joyner (1984–1985)
  • Hon. Dennis W. Archer (1983–1984)
  • Warren Hope Dawson (1982–1983)
  • Hon. Arnette R. Hubbard (1981–1982)
  • William A. Borders, Jr. (1980–1981)

1970s

  • Robert L. Harris (1979–1980)
  • Junius W. Williams (1978–1979)
  • Mark T. McDonald (1977–1978)
  • Hon. Carl J. Character (1976–1977)
  • W. George Allen (1975–1976)
  • Charles Howard (1974–1975)
  • Archie B. Weston, Sr. (1973–1974)
  • O.T. Wells (1972–1973)
  • James W. Cobb (1971–1972)
  • Hon. Edward F. Bell (1970–1971)

1960s

  • Hon. William E. Petersen (1969–1970)
  • Hon. Billy Jones (1967–1968)
  • Hon. Revius O. Ortique (1965–1967)
  • Theodore Coggs (1963–1965)
  • Robert Lillard (1961–1963)

1950s

  • Elmer C. Jackson (1959–1961)*
  • Hon. William Thompson (1957–1959)*
  • Hon. Richard Atkinson (1955–1957)*
  • Harold Bledsoe (1954–1955)
  • W. Harold Flowers, Sr. (1953–1954)
  • Hon. Scovel Richardson (1951–1953)*

1940s

  • James R. Booker (1949–1951)*
  • Thurman L. Dodson (1947–1949)*
  • Earl R. Dickerson (1945–1947)*
  • Charles W. Anderson (1943–1945)*
  • Euclid Louis Taylor (1941–1943)*

1930s

  • James R. Booker (1939–1941)*
  • Thurman L. Dodson (1937–1939)*
  • Earl R. Dickerson (1935–1937)*
  • Charles W. Anderson (1933–1935)*
  • Euclid Louis Taylor (1931–1933)*

1920s

  • Raymond P. Alexander (1929–1931)*
  • C. Francis Stradford (1928–1929)
  • Homer G. Phillips (1927–1928)
  • Charles Calloway (1926–1927)
  • George H. Woodson (1925–1926)