Since NAIFA was founded 130 years ago, the association’s presidents have used their expertise and experience to provide leadership and guidance to the association. As we celebrate our 130th anniversary, we thank all of our presidents for their dedication and commitment to putting NAIFA’s needs ahead of their own and maintaining a laser-like focus on moving the association forward. Here are the names of these distinguished leaders and their years of service:
| Term | Term | ||
| 1890 — 1891 | George N. Carpenter, Boston, MA | 1891 — 1892 | Charles H. Raymond, Morristown, NJ |
| 1892 — 1893 | C.E. Tillinghast, Cleveland, OH | 1893 — 1894 | Charles Ferguson, Chicago, IL |
| 1894 — 1895 | Everett H. Plummer, Philadelphia, PA | 1895 — 1896 | Ben S. Calef, Boston, MA |
| 1896 — 1897 | David S. Hendrick, Washington, DC | 1897 — 1898 | Thos. H. Bowles, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1898 — 1899 | Richard E. Cochran, New York, NY | 1899 — 1900 | James L. Johnson, Springfield, MA |
| 1900 — 1901 | I. Layton Register, Philadelphia, PA | 1901 — 1902 | William D. Wyman, Chicago, IL |
| 1902 — 1903 | Philip H. Farley, New York, NY | 1903 — 1904 | Hubert H. Ward, Cleveland, OH |
| 1904 — 1905 | John Dolph, Cincinnati, OH | 1905 — 1906 | Charles W. Scovel, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1906 — 1907 | Frank E. McMullen, Rochester, NY | 1907-1909 | Charles J. Edwards, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1909 — 1910 | John Whittington, Los Angeles, CA | 1910 — 1911 | Henry J. Powell, Louisville, KY |
| 1911 — 1912 | Bracket Bishop, Chicago, IL | 1912 — 1913 | Neil D. Sills, Richmond, VA |
| 1913 — 1914 | Ernest J. Clark, Baltimore, MD | 1914 — 1915 | Hugh M. Willett, Atlanta, GA |
| 1915 — 1916 | Edward A. Woods, Pittsburgh, PA | 1915 — 1916 | Edward A. Woods, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1916 — 1917 | John Newton Russell, Los Angeles, CA | 1917 — 1918 | Lawrence Priddy, New York, NY |
| 1918 — 1919 | J.K. Voshell, Baltimore, MD | 1919 — 1920 | J. Stanley Edwards, Denver, CO |
| 1920 — 1921 | Orville Thorp, Dallas, TX | 1921 — 1922 | John L. Shuff, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1922 — 1923 | Adolph Eliason, St. Paul, MN | 1923 — 1924 | Graham C. Wells, New York, NY |
| 1924 — 1925 | John W. Clegg, Philadelphia, PA | 1925 — 1926 | Frank L. Jones, Indianapolis, IN |
| 1926 — 1927 | George D. Alder, Salt Lake City, UT | 1927 — 1928 | Julian S. Myrick, New York, NY |
| 1928 — 1929 | Paul F. Clark, CLU, Boston, MA | 1929 — 1930 | S. T. Whatley, Chicago, IL |
| 1930 — 1931 | George Lackey, CLU, Oklahoma City, OK | 1931 — 1932 | Elbert G. Storer, Indianapolis, IN |
| 1932 — 1933 | Charles C. Thompson, Seattle, WA | 1933 — 1934 | C. Vivian Anderson, CLU, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1934-1935 | Theodore M. Riehle, CLU, New York, NY | 1935-1936 | Lester O. Shriver, Peoria, IL |
| 1936 | Alexander E. Patterson, Chicago, IL | 1937 | Theodore M. Riehle, CLU, New York, NY |
| 1937-1938 | Sam Cummings, Dallas, TX | 1938-1939 | Holgar J. Johnson, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1939 — 1940 | Charles J. Zimmerman, CLU, Chicago, IL | 1940 — 1941 | Harry T. Wright, Chicago, IL |
| 1941 — 1942 | John A. Whitherspoon, Nashville, TN | 1942 — 1943 | Grant Taggart, Cowley, WY |
| 1943-1944 | Herbert A. Hedges, Kansas City, MO | 1944-1945 | Wm. Andrews Jr., CLU, Greensboro, NC |
| 1945-1946 | Clancy D. Connell, New York, NY | 1946-1947 | Philip B. Hobbs, Chicago, IL |
| 1947-1948 | Jul B. Baumann, Houston, TX | 1948-1949 | Clifford Orr, CLU, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1949-1950 | Judd Benson, Cincinnati, OH | 1950-1951 | John Moynahan, CLU, Berwyn, IL |
| 1951-1952 | Charles Cleeton, CLU, Los Angeles, CA | 1952-1953 | David Flugelman, CLU, New York, NY |
| 1953-1954 | Robert C. Gilmore Jr., Bridgeport, CT | 1954-1955 | Robert L. Walker, CLU, Orlando, FL |
| 1955-1956 | Stanley C. Collins, CLU, Buffalo, NY | 1956-1957 | Jack Nussbaum, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1957-1958 | Albert C. Adams, Philadelphia, PA | 1958-1959 | Oren D. Pritchard, Indianapolis, IN |
| 1959-1960 | William S. Hendley Jr., Columbia, SC | 1960-1961 | William E. North, CLU, Evanston, IL |
| 1961-1962 | R.L. McMillon, Abilene, TX | 1962-1963 | David Blumberg, CLU, Knoxville, TN |
| 1963-1964 | John Schneider, CLU, Baltimore, MD | 1964-1965 | William Gatling, Norfolk, VA |
| 1965-1966 | Philip A. Hoche, CLU, Orlando, FL | 1966-1967 | Lewis C. Yount, CLU, Seattle, WA |
| 1967-1968 | Francis G. Bray, Houston, TX | 1968-1969 | Roy D. Simon, CLU, Chicago, IL |
| 1969-1970 | Raymond King Jr., CLU, Charlotte, NC | 1970-1971 | Herbert F. Mischke, CLU, St. Paul, MN |
| 1971-1972 | John P. Meehan, CLU, Boston, MA | 1972-1973 | Franklin Steiner, Mobile, AL |
| 1973-1974 | Lester A. Rosen, CLU, Memphis, TN | 1974-1975 | Norm Levine, CLU, ChFC, New York, NY |
| 1975-1976 | Bruce Hendrickson, CLU, Holdrege, NE | 1976-1977 | Robert W. Forker, CLU, Zanesville, OH |
| 1977-1978 | Jack E. Bobo, CLU, FLMI, Phoenix, AZ | 1978-1979 | Bart Hodges, CLU, Austin, TX |
| 1979-1980 | Thomas J. Wolff, CLU, ChFC, Vernon, CT | 1980-1981 | Kirke Lewis, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Memphis, TN |
| 1981-1982 | Jack Peckinpaugh, CLU, Muncie, IN | 1982-1983 | Rice E. Brown, CLU, Topeka, KS |
| 1983-1984 | Robert Hughes, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Lansing, MI | 1984-1985 | Michael Keenan, CLU, ChFC, Evanston, IL |
| 1985-1986 | Mac McManigal, CLU, CPCU, LUTCF, Fairfield, CA | 1986-1987 | David F. Woods, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Springfield, MA |
| 1987-1988 | Arthur Abramson, CLU, ChFC, New Orleans, LA | 1988-1989 | Alan Press, CLU, LUTCF, New York, NY |
| 1989-1990 | Robert J. Wernecke, CLU, Phoenix, AZ | 1990-1991 | John Neighbors, CLU, LUTCF, Houston, TX |
| 1991-1992 | Mike Nicholson, CLU, ChFC, Madison, WI | 1992-1993 | Stephen C. Shaw, CLU, Lafayette, CA |
| 1993-1994 | Robert Tedoldi, CLU, ChFC, Glastonbury, CT | 1994-1995 | Robert Tedoldi, CLU, ChFC, Glastonbury, CT |
| 1995-1996 | Raymond H. “Mickey” Moran, CLU, ChFC, Memphis, TN | 1996-1997 | David B. Malkin, CLU, ChFC, Livingston, NJ |
| 1997-1998 | Mark D. Johnson, CLU, ChFC, RHU, Duluth, MN | 1998-1999 | Larry M. Lambert, CLU, CFP, Long Beach, CA |
| 1999-2000 | John M. Ruckel, LUTCF, Nacogdoches, TX | 2000-2001 | Dennis R. Merideth, CLU, ChFC, Tucson, AZ |
| 2001-2002 | Robert M. Nelson, CLU, LUTCF, Omaha, NE | 2002-2003 | Richard A. Koob, CLU, ChFC, AEP, Waukesha, WI |
| 2003-2004 | Randy R. Kilgore, CLU, LUTCF, RHU, Colorado Springs, CO | 2004-2005 | C. Robert Brown Sr., CLU, LUTCF, Memphis, TN |
| 2005-2006 | David E. Smithkey, CLU, RFC, Flint, MI | 2006-2007 | John A. Davidson, LUTCF, FSS, Thousand Oaks, CA |
| 2007-2008 | Jeffrey J. Taggart, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Cody, WY | 2008-2009 | Cliff F. Wilson, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Chandler, AZ |
| 2009-2010 | Thomas D. Currey, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF, Grand Prairie, TX | 2010-2011 | Terry K. Headley, LUTCF, LIC, FSS, LaVista, NE |
| 2011-2012 | Robert A. Miller, MA, MS, New York, NY | 2012-2013 | Robert O. Smith, CLU, ChFC, JD, LIC, Grand Rapids, MI |
| 2013-2014 | John F. Nichols, MSM, CLU, Chicago, IL | 2014-2015 | Juli Y. McNeely, LUTCF, CFP, CLU, Spencer, WI |
| 2015-2016 | Jules O. Gaudreau Jr., ChFC, CIC, CRM, Springfield, MA | 2016-2017 | Paul R. Dougherty, LUTCF, FSS, HIA, Hyattsville, MD |
| 2017-2018 | Keith M. Gillies, CFP, CLU, ChFC, La Place, LA | 2018-2019 | Jill M. Judd, LUTCF, FSS, Capitola, CA |
| 2020 | Cammie Scott, MSIE, ChHC, CLTC, LUTCF, REBC, RHU, SHRM-SCP, SPHR |
