Past Presidents

State Bar members elect the president, who serves a one-year term as president-elect before taking office. Many distinguished women and men have committed countless hours of service and shared their wisdom while leading the bar.

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1939 – 1949

Angus G. Wynne Sr. (1939-1940)	Few Brewster (1940-1941)	Gordon Simpson (1941-1942)	Claude E. Carter (1942-1943)	Maj. Townsend Bell (1943-1944)
Joseph B. Dooley (1944-1945)	John H. Bickett Jr. (1945-1946)	James L. Shepherd Jr. (1946-1947)	Henry G. Chandler Sr. (1947-1948)	Robert G. Storey Sr. (1948-1949)

1949 – 1959

Sawyers A. Crowley (1949-1950)	Albert P. Jones (1950-1951)	Cecil E. Burney (1951-1952)	J. Glenn Turner Sr. (1952-1953)	Everett L. Looney (1953-1954)
Rupert N. Gresham (1954-1955)	Maurice R. Bullock (1955-1956)	Newton Gresham (1956-1957)	Virgil T. Seaberry Sr. (1957-1958)	Leo Brewster (1958-1959)

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1959 – 1969

Alfred J. Folley (1959-1960)	Paul Carrington Sr. (1960-1961)	William L. Kerr (1961-1962)	Leon Jaworski (1962-1963)	Buster Cole (1963-1964)
Franklin J. Cox (1964-1965)	Charles C. Small Jr. (1965-1966)	William O. Shafer, II (1966-1967)	Thomas M. Phillips (1967-1968)	Ralph W. Brite (1968-1969)

1969 – 1979

Josiah Wheat (1969-1970)	Morris Harrell (1970-1971)	James C. Watson (1971-1972)	Jim D. Bowmer (1972-1973)	John L. Jeffers Sr. (1973-1974)
Lloyd P. Lochridge Jr. (1974-1975)	John M. Lawrence III (1975-1976)	Gibson Gayle Jr. (1976-1977)	Travis D. Shelton (1977-1978)	Cullen Smith Jr. (1978-1979)

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1979 – 1989

John C. Dougherty III (1979-1980)	Franklin Jones Jr. (1980-1981)	Wayne Fisher (1981-1982)	Orrin W. Johnson (1982-1983)	Blake Tartt (1983-1984)
Tom B. Ramey Jr. (1984-1985)	Charles L. Smith (1985-1986)	William O. "Bill" Whitehurst (1986-1987)	Joe H. Nagy (1987-1988)	James B. Sales (1988-1989)

1989 – 1999

Darrell E. Jordan (1989-1990)	James N. Parsons III (1990-1991)	Charles R. "Bob" Dunn (1991-1992)	Harriet Miers (1992-1993)	Lonny D. Morrison (1993-1994)
James L. Branton (1994-2021)	David J. Beck (1995-1996)	M. Colleen McHugh (1996-1997)	W. Frank Newton (1997-1998)	Richard Pena (1998-1999)

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1999 – 2009

Charles F. Aycock (1999-2000)	Lynne Liberato (2000-2001)	Broadus A. Spivey (2001-2002)	Guy Harrison (2002-2003)	Betsy Whitaker (2003-2004)
Kelly Frels (2004-2005)	Eduardo R. Rodriguez (2005-2006)	Martha S. Dickie (2006-2007)	D. Gib Walton (2007-2008)	Harper Estes (2008-2009)

2009 – 2014

Roland Johnson
(2009-2010)

Terry Tottenham
(2010-2011)

Bob Black
(2011-2012)

Buck Files
(2012-2013)

Lisa M. Tatum
(2013-2014)

2014 – 2019

Trey Apffel
(2014-2015)

Allan DuBois
(2015-2016)

Frank Stevenson
(2016-2017)

Tom Vick
(2017-2018)

Joe K. Longley
(2018-2019)

2020 -

Randy Sorrels (2019-2020)	Larry P. McDougal Sr. (2020-2021)	Sylvia Borunda Firth (2021-2022)	Laura Gibson (2022-2023)	Cindy Tisdale (2023-2024)
Steve Benesh (2024-2025)	Santos Vargas (2025-2026)

State Bar Past Presidents

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