Group photo of IFT past presidents

IFT Past Presidents

IFT would not be the organization it is today without the thoughtful leadership generously provided by IFT’s dedicated and passionate past presidents.

2024-2025: Christopher Daubert
2023-2024: Sean Leighton
2022-2023: Chris Downs
2021-2022: Vickie Kloeris
2020-2021: Noel Anderson

2019–2020: Pam Coleman
2018–2019: Michele H. Perchonok
2017–2018: Cindy Stewart
2016–2017: John Coupland
2015–2016: Colin Dennis
2014–2015: Mary Ellen Camire
2013–2014: Janet Collins
2012–2013: John Ruff
2011–2012: Roger A. Clemens
2010–2011: Robert B. Gravani

2009–2010: Marianne Gillette
2008–2009: Sheri Schellhaass
2007–2008: John Floros
2006–2007: Dennis Heldman*
2005–2006: Margaret Lawson
2004–2005: Herbert Stone
2003–2004: C. Ann Hollingsworth*
2002–2003: Mark R. McLellan
2001–2002: Philip Nelson
2000–2001: Mary K. Schmidl

*deceased past presidents


1999–2000: Charles H. Manley
1998–1999: Bruce H. Stillings
1997–1998: Mary K. Wagner
1996–1997: Robert E. Smith
1995–1996: Frank F. Busta*
1994–1995: Roy G. Arnold*
1993–1994: Al S. Clausi*
1992–1993: David R. Lineback
1991–1992: John H. Litchfield*
1990–1991: Daryl B. Lund

*deceased past presidents

1989–1990: Paul F. Hopper*
1988–1989: Theodore P. Labuza*
1987–1988: Roy E. Morse*
1986–1987: John J. Powers*
1985–1986: Charles J. Bates*
1984–1985: Bernard J. Liska*
1983–1984: Gilbert A. Leveille*
1982–1983: Owen R. Fennema*
1981–1982: Arthur T. Schramm*
1980–1981: Frederick J. Francis*

*deceased past presidents


1979–1980: Walter L. Clark*
1978–1979: Bernard S. Schweigert*
1977–1978: Howard E. Bauman*
1976–1977: John C. Ayres*
1975–1976: Ernest J. Briskey*
1974–1975: Charles F. Niven Jr.*
1973–1974: Reid T. Milner*
1972–1973: Ben F. Buchanan*
1971–1972: Richard L. Hall*
1970–1971: Hans Lineweaver*

*deceased past presidents


1969–1970: Herbert E. Robinson*
1968–1969: Bernard L. Oser*
1967–1968: George F. Stewart*
1966–1967: John H. Nair*
1965–1966: Maynard A. Joslyn*
1964–1965: Charles T. Townsend*
1963–1964: C. Olin Ball*
1962–1963: John M. Jackson*
1961–1962: Harold W. Schultz*
1960–1961: Irmi J. Hutchings*

*deceased past presidents


1959–1960: Ray B. Wakefield*
1958–1959: Aksel G. Olsen*
1957–1958: Emil M. Mrak*
1956–1957: George F. Garnatz*
1955–1956: LaVerne E. Cilfcorn*
1954–1955: Phillip K. Bates*
1953–1954: Berton S. Clark*
1952–1953: Bernard E. Proctor*
1951–1952: Charles N. Frey*
1950–1951: Paul F. Sharp*

*deceased past presidents


1949–1950: Carl R. Fellers*
1948–1949: H.C. Diehl*
1947–1948: George J. Hucker*
1946–1947: Ellery H. Harvey*
1945–1946: Fred W. Tanner*
1944–1945: Fred C. Blanck*
1943–1944: William V. Cruess*
1942–1943: Roy C. Newton*
1941–1942: Laurence B. Burton*
1939–1941: Samuel Cate Prescott* (served a two-year term)

*deceased past presidents