List of presidents of the Paleontological Society

This is a list of all the past and present presidents of the Paleontological Society.


 * 1909 John Mason Clarke
 * 1910 Charles Schuchert
 * 1911 William Berryman Scott
 * 1912 David White
 * 1913 Charles D. Walcott
 * 1914 Henry Fairfield Osborn
 * 1915 Edward Oscar Ulrich
 * 1916 Rudolf Ruedemann
 * 1917 John Campbell Merriam
 * 1918 Frank Hall Knowlton
 * 1919 Robert Tracy Jackson
 * 1920 Frederic Brewster Loomis
 * 1921 Timothy W. Stanton
 * 1922 William Diller Matthew
 * 1923 T. Wayland Vaughan
 * 1924 Edward Wilber Berry
 * 1925 Richard Swann Lull
 * 1926 Stuart Weller
 * 1927 William Arthur Parks
 * 1928 August F. Foerste
 * 1929 Ermine Cowles Case
 * 1930 William H. Twenhofel
 * 1931 Edgar Roscoe Cumings
 * 1932 Ray S. Bassler
 * 1933 Edward Martin Kindle
 * 1934 Percy Edward Raymond
 * 1935 Charles Kephart Swartz
 * 1936 Gilbert Dennison Harris
 * 1937 Joseph Augustine Cushman
 * 1938 Charles W. Gilmore
 * 1939 Ralph W. Chaney
 * 1940 Carl O. Dunbar
 * 1941 Lloyd William Stephenson
 * 1942 Elias Howard Sellards
 * 1943 John B. Reeside, Jr.
 * 1944 Benjamin Franklin Howell
 * 1945 Chester Stock
 * 1946 James Brookes Knight
 * 1947 Raymond C. Moore
 * 1948 Wendell P. Woodring
 * 1949 Winifred Goldring
 * 1950 Charles Edwin Weaver
 * 1951 Harold Ernest Vokes
 * 1952 Julia A. Gardner
 * 1953 William Storrs Cole
 * 1954 Harry Stephen Ladd
 * 1955 Alfred Scott Warthin Jr.
 * 1957 G. Arthur Cooper
 * 1958 Arthur K. Miller
 * 1959 Frank M. Swartz
 * 1960 Kenneth Edward Caster
 * 1961 Norman D. Newell
 * 1962 John W. Wells
 * 1963 S. W. Muller
 * 1964 Ralph Willard Imlay
 * 1965 Harry B. Whittington
 * 1966 John Wyatt Durham
 * 1967 Erwin Charles Stumm
 * 1968 Alan Bosworth Shaw
 * 1969 Digby J. McLaren
 * 1970 William H. Easton
 * 1971 Bernhard Kummel
 * 1972 Curt Teichert
 * 1973 Porter M. Kier
 * 1974 James W. Valentine
 * 1975 William A. Oliver, Jr.
 * 1976 Ellis L. Yochelson
 * 1977 David M. Raup
 * 1978 Frank G. Stehli
 * 1979 Richard E. Grant
 * 1980 Warren O. Addicott
 * 1981 Arthur J. Boucot
 * 1982 Erle G. Kauffman
 * 1983 A. R. (Pete) Palmer
 * 1984 Walter C. Sweet
 * 1985 Helen Tappan Loeblich
 * 1986 Norman F. Sohl
 * 1987 Stephen J. Gould
 * 1988 N. Gary Lane
 * 1989 Brian F. Glenister
 * 1990 John Pojeta, Jr.
 * 1991 Thomas E. Bolton
 * 1992 Roger L. Kaesler
 * 1993 Rodney M. Feldmann
 * 1994 Steven M. Stanley
 * 1995 Craig Call Black
 * 1996 J. John Sepkoski, Jr.
 * 1997 Jere H. Lipps
 * 1998 Karl W. Flessa
 * 1999 Peter H. Crane
 * 2001 Patricia H. Kelley
 * 2003 William I. Ausich
 * 2005 David Bottjer
 * 2007 Derek E. G. Briggs
 * 2009 Douglas H. Erwin
 * 2011 Philip D. Gingerich
 * 2013 Sandra J. Carlson
 * 2015 Steven M. Holland
 * 2017 Arnold I. Miller
 * 2019 Bruce J. MacFadden
 * 2021 William DiMichele (Current Past-President)
 * 2023 Anne Raymond (Current President)
 * 2025 Rowan Lockwood (Current President-Elect)