New Jersey Library Association Past Presidents
1890 - 91 William Prall
1891 - 92, 1897 - 99 Frank P. Hill
1892 - 93 James Neilson
1893 - 94 George F. Winchester
1894 - 95 G. Watson Cole
1895 - 96 Cornelia A. See
1896 - 97 John B. Thompson
1899 - 1901, 1916 - 17 Ernest C. Richardson
1901 - 02 Samuel G. Ayres
1902 - 03 Adam J. Strohn
1903 - 04 V. Lansing Collings
1904 - 06, 1910 John Cotton Dana *
1906 - 07 Warner W. Bishop
1907 - 08, 1921 - 22 Beatrice Winser
1908 - 09 Charles J. George
1909 - 10 Hiram E. Deats
1911 Marie L. Prevost *
1911 - 12 Elizabeth H. Wessen
1912 - 13 Thomas Hatfield
1913 - 14, 1939 - 40 Sarah Byrd Askew
1914 - 15, 1933 - 34 Howard L. Hughes
1915 - 16 Margaret McVety
1917 - 18 Nellie Sanford Packard Webb
1918 - 19 Edna Pratt Goodlatte
1919 - 20 Henry B. Van Heusen
1920 - 21 M. Belle Kilgour
1922 - 23, 1935 - 36 James T. Gerould
1923 - 24 Edmund Miller
1924 - 25 Adeline J. Pratt
1925 Harold F. Brigham **
1925 - 26 Edith H. Crowell **
1926 - 27 Margaret Jackson
1927 George M. LaMonte ***
1927 - 28 Agnes Miller
1928 - 29 George A. Osborne
1929 - 30 Adeline T. Davidson
1930 - 31 Maud I. Stull
1931 - 32 John B. Fogg
1932 - 33 Edith L. Smith
1934 - 35 Marguerite L. Gates
1936 - 37 Hazel C. Clark
1937 - 38 Leo R. Etzkorn
1938 - 39 Elizabeth Butcher
1940 - 41 O. Gerald Lawson
1941 - 42 Hannah P. Severns
1942 - 43 Ada J. English
1943 - 44 Emma V. Baldwin
1944 - 45, 1958 - 59 Viola R. Maihl
1945 - 46 Ethel M. Fair
1946 - 47 Marion C. Manley
1947 - 48 Margaret L. Whaley
1948 - 49 John B. Kaiser
1949 - 50 Alice G. Higgins
1950 - 51 Esther M. Baker
1951 - 52 Mary O. Besore
1952 - 54 James E. Bryan
1954 - 55 Mary V. Gaver
1955 - 56 Dorothy Van Gorder
1956 - 57 Harriet Forbes Burdick
1957 - 58 William J. Roehrenbeck
1959 - 60 Bernard Schein
1960 - 61 Helene S. Taylor
1961 - 62 Janet Zimmerman McKinlay
1962 - 63 Ralph N. Shaw
1963 - 64 Christine McCloskey
1964 - 65 Kenneth McPherson
1965 - 66 Veronica F. Cary
1966 - 67 Harold Roth
1967 - 68 Miriam R. Evans
1968 - 69 Ben E. Grimm
1969 - 70 Beatrice M. James
1970 - 71 Edwin P. Beckerman
1971 - 72 Schuyler L. Mott
1972 - 73 Elizabeth E. Budell
1973 - 74 Thomas W. Schear
1974 - 75 Learned T. Bulman
1975 - 76 Howard Vogt
1976 - 77 William Bunnell
1977 - 78 John Livingstone
1978 - 79 Mary Joyce Doyle
1979 - 80 (John Andrew) Drew Burns
1980 - 81 Dorothy Jones
1981 - 82 June Adams
1982 - 83 Dorothy Johnson
1983 - 84 Elaine McConnell
1984 - 85 Eleanor “Penny” Brome
1985 - 86 Lynn Miller
1986 - 87 Marc Eisen
1987 - 88 Thomas Alrutz
1988 - 89 Norma Yueh
1989 - 90 Irene Cackowski (Goldberg)
1990 - 91 Abigail Studdiford
1991 - 92 Nancy Vernon (Adamczyk)
1992 - 93 Jane Crocker
1993 - 94 Norma Blake
1994 - 95 Mary Lou Abrams
1995 - 96 Timothy Murphy
1996 - 97 Lynn Randall
1997 - 98 Alex Boyd
1998 - 99 Cynthia Czesak
1999 - 2000 Joseph Keenan
2000 - 01 Barbara Thiele
2001 - 02 Leslie Burger
2002 - 03 Karen Avenick
2003 - 04 Patricia Hannon
2004 - 05 Carol Phillips
2005 - 06 April Judge
2006 - 07 Joan Bernstein
2007 - 08 Michele Reutty
2008 - 09 Heidi Cramer
2009 - 10 Susan Briant
2010 - 11 Mary Romance
2011 - 12 Susan O’Neal
2012 - 13 Karen Klapperstuck
2013 - 14 Eileen Palmer
2014 - 15 Terrie McColl
2015 - 16 James Keehbler
2016 - 17 Christopher Carbone
2017 - 18 Michael Maziekien
2018 - 19 Leah Wagner
2019 Tonya A. Garcia ****
2019 - 21 Jen Schureman Brenner
2021 - 22 Kate Jaggers
2022 - 23 Jessica Trujillo
Italics = 2 consecutive terms
* Resigned before completing his third term, probably due to starting the Newark Museum and becoming the first president of the Special Library Association that same year; Prevost completed Dana’s term
** Resigned in Summer 1925 to take a position with ALA; Crowell appointed to fill out remainder of term
*** Died 12/24/27, Miller became president, Hazel Clark appointed First VP
**** Resigned for health reasons. Jen Schureman Brenner completed the remainder of Tonya Garcia's term.