Elected Leadership:  1977-Present
Chairperson-Elect
2009-2011	Dr. Dena Phillips Swanson University of Rochester
Current Chairperson
2007-2009	Dr. Stephanie Rowley University of Michigan
Current Executive Officers
2003-present	Dr. Vivian L. Gadsden University of Pennsylvania
	Dr. Michael Cunningham Tulane University
Past Executive Officer and Newsletter Editor
1977-2003	Dr. Aline M. Garrett University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Past Chairpersons
2005-2007	Dr. Velma LaPoint Howard University
2001-2003	Dr. Oscar Barbarin University of North Carolina
1999-2001	Dr. Michael Cunningham Tulane University
1997-1999	Dr. Geraldine Kearse Brookins University of Minnesota
1995-1997	Dr. Ura Jean Oyemade Bailey Howard University
1993-1995	Dr. Melvin N. Wilson University of Virginia
1991-1993	Dr. Deborah J. Johnson University of Wisconsin-Madison
1989-1991	Dr. Sherryl Browne Graves Hunter College - City University of New York
1987-1989	Dr. Valora Washington Antioch College
1985-1987	Dr. Suzzanne Randolph University of Maryland
1983-1985	Dr. Vonnie McLoyd University of Michigan
1981-1983	Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer Emory University
1979-1981	Dr. Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe Northwestern University
1977-1979	Dr. Jean V. Carew Harvard University