| Year of Tenure | Name |
| 2023 | Kathleen L. Yaremchuk, MD, MSA |
| 2022 | Ken Yanagisawa, MD | 2021 | Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS |
| 2020 | Duane J. Taylor, MD |
| 2019 | Albert L. Merati, MD |
| 2018 | Gavin Setzen, MD |
| 2017 | Gregory W. Randolph, MD |
| 2016 | Sujana S. Chandrasekhar, MD |
| 2015 | Gayle E. Woodson, MD |
| 2014 | Richard W. Waguespack, MD |
| 2013 | James L. Netterville, MD |
| 2012 | Rodney P. Lusk, MD |
| 2011 | J. Regan Thomas, MD |
| 2010 | Ronald B. Kuppersmith, MD, MBA |
| 2009 | David W. Kennedy, MD |
| 2008 | James C. Denneny III, MD |
| 2007 | Richard T. Miyamoto, MD |
| 2006 | C. Ron Cannon, MD |
| 2005 | Robert H. Maisel, MD |
| 2004 | M. Jennifer Derebery, MD |
| 2003 | Jonas T. Johnson, MD |
| 2002 | KJ Lee, MD |
| 2001 | Jack L. Gluckman, MD |
| 2000 | John G. Campbell, MD |
| 1999 | Harold C. Pillsbury III, MD |
| 1998 | Antonio De la Cruz, MD |
| 1997 | Charles J. Krause, MD |
| 1996 | Neil O. Ward, MD, MALS |
| 1995 | Eugene N. Myers, MD FRCS Ed (Hon) |
| 1994 | Mansfield F.W. Smith, MD |
| 1993 | Charles W. Cummings, MD |
| 1992 | G. Richard Holt, MD, MSE, MPH, D-BE |
| 1991 | Richard L. Goode, MD |
| 1990 | Richard T. Farrior, MD |
| 1989 | Byron J. Bailey, MD |
| 1988 | Derald E. Brackmann, MD |
| 1987 | Robert W. Cantrell, MD |
| 1986 | M. Eugene Tardy Jr., MD |
| 1985 | Roger L. Boles, MD |
| 1984 | Charles W. Gross, MD |
| 1983 | George A. Sisson Sr., MD |
| 1982 | Loring W. Pratt, MD |
| 1981 | Bobby R. Alford, MD |
| 1980 | Jack R. Anderson, MD |
| 1979 | Victor Goodhill, MD |
| 1978 | Eugene L. Derlacki, MD |
| 1977 | Bradley R. Straatsma, MD |
| 1976 | John F. Daly, MD |
| 1975 | Frank W. Newell, MD |
| 1974 | John J. Conley, MD |
| 1973 | Kenneth L. Roper, MD |
| 1972 | Howard P. House, MD |
| 1971 | A. Edward Maumenee, MD |
| 1970 | Jerome A. Hilger, MD |
| 1969 | Francis Heed Adler |
| 1968 | Francis L. Lederer |
| 1967 | Wendall L. Hughes |
| 1966 | Francis E. LeJeune |
| 1965 | Edwin B. Dunphy |
| 1964 | John R. Lindsay |
| 1963 | Albert D. Duedemann |
| 1962 | Lawrence R. Boies |
| 1961 | Dohrmann K. Pischel |
| 1960 | Dean M. Lierle |
| 1959 | John H. Dunnington |
| 1958 | LeRoy A. Schall |
| 1957 | Erling W. Hanson |
| 1956 | A.C. Furstenberg |
| 1955 | Algernon B. Reese |
| 1954 | Walter H. Theobald |
| 1953 | Frederick C. Cordes |
| 1952 | James Milton Robb |
| 1951 | Derrick T. Vail, Jr. |
| 1950 | J. Mackenzie Brown |
| 1949 | Conrad Berens |
| 1948 | Carl H. McCaskey |
| 1947 | Alan C. Woods |
| 1946 | Gordon B. New |
| 1945 | Gordon B. New |
| 1944 | Lawrence T. Post |
| 1943 | James A. Babbitt |
| 1942 | Ralph I. Lloyd |
| 1941 | Frank R. Spencer |
| 1940 | Frank E. Brawley |
| 1939 | George M. Coates |
| 1938 | Harry S. Gradle |
| 1937 | Lee W. Dean |
| 1936 | Frank E. Burch |
| 1935 | Wells P. Eagleton |
| 1934 | John M. Wheeler |
| 1933 | Burt R. Shurly |
| 1932 | S. Hanford McKee |
| 1931 | John F. Barnhill |
| 1930 | William H. Wilder |
| 1929 | Harris P. Mosher |
| 1928 | Luther C. Peter |
| 1927 | Ross H. Skillern |
| 1926 | Edward C. Ellett |
| 1925 | Horace Newhart |
| 1924 | Walter B. Lancaster |
| 1923 | Thomas E. Carmody |
| 1922 | Walter R. Parker |
| 1921 | Emil Mayer |
| 1920 | Lee Masten Francis |
| 1919 | John M. Ingersoll |
| 1918 | Allen Greenwood |
| 1917 | William L. Dayton |
| 1916 | John Edwin Brown |
| 1915 | Joseph C. Beck |
| 1914 | James M. Ray |
| 1913 | John W. Murphy |
| 1912 | George F. Suker |
| 1911 | John J. Kyle |
| 1910 | Wendall Reber |
| 1909 | Otto J. Stein |
| 1908 | Derrick T. Vail, Sr. |
| 1907 | Joseph A. Stucky |
| 1906 | Casey A. Wood |
| 1905 | Hanau W. Loeb |
| 1904 | Edward Jackson |
| 1903 | William L. Ballenger |
| 1902 | Christian R. Holmes |
| 1901 | Max Aaron Goldstein |
| 1900 | W. Scheppergrell |
| 1899 | J. Elliot Colburn |
| 1898 | B.E. Fyer |
| 1897 | Adolf Alt |
| 1896 | Adolf Alt |
