North Carolina Library Association

Past Presidents of NCLA

• 1904-1906: Annie Smith Ross
• 1906-1907: Annie Smith Ross
• 1907-1908: Annie Smith Ross
• 1908-1909: Annie Petty
• 1910-1911: J. P. Breedlove
• 1911-1913: J.P. Breedlove
• 1913-1915: Annie Petty
• 1915-1916: Mary B. Palmer
• 1917-1919: Mrs. A. F. Griggs
• 1919-1921: Ethel Taylor Crittenden
• 1923-1925: Charles B. Shaw
• 1925-1927: Nellie Rowe
• 1927-1929: Annie Pierce
• 1931-1933: Lillian B. Griggs
• 1933-1935: Charles H. Stone
• 1935-1937: Nora Beust
• 1937-1939: Mary Louise McDearman **Resigned; Nell G. Butte elected 09/02/1937
• 1939-1941: Mary Peacock Douglas
• 1941-1943: Guy R. Lyle *Succeeded by Hoyt R. Galvin (1942)
• 1943-1946: Susan Gray Akers
• 1947-1949: Margaret Ligon
• 1949-1951: Harlan C. Brown
• 1951-1953: Jane B. Wilson
• 1953-1955: Charlesanna Fox
• 1955-1957: Olan V. Cook
• 1957-1959: Vernelle G. Palmer
• 1959-1961: Elizabeth H. Hughey
• 1961-1963: Carlton P. West
• 1965-1967: Paul S. Ballance
• 1967-1969: Mildred Councill
• 1969-1971: Eunice Query
• 1971-1973: Elizabeth Copeland
• 1973-1975: Gene Lanier
• 1975-1977: Annette Phinazee
• 1977-1979: Leonard L. Johnson
• 1979-1981: H. William O'Shea
• 1981-1983: Mertys W. Bell
• 1983-1985: Leland M. Park
• 1985-1987: Pauline F. Myrick
• 1987-1989: Patsy J. Hansel
• 1989-1991: Barbara A. Baker
• 1991-1993: Janet L. Freeman
• 1993-1995: Gwen G. Jackson
• 1995-1997: David Fergusson
• 1997-1999: Beverley Gass
• 1999-2001: Plummer Alston "Al" Jones, Jr.
• 2001-2003: Ross Holt
• 2003-2005: Pauletta Brown Bracy
• 2005-2007: Robert Burgin
• 2007-2009: Phil Barton
• 2009-2011: Sherwin Rice
• 2011-2013: Wanda Brown
• 2013-2015: Dale Cousins
• 2015-2017: Rodney Lippard
• 2017-2019: Mike Crumpton
• 2019-2021: Lorrie Russell
• 2021-2023: Libby Stone