Past Presidents

IPLAC Past Presidents

The Nation's First IP Bar Has a Rich History

Lester L. Bond 1885
(IPLAC’s First President)

John M. Thacher 1886

James H. Raymond 1887

Nelson C. Gridley 1888

John W. Munday 1889

Edmund A. West 1890

Ephraim Banning 1891

Lysander Hill 1892

James H. Pierce 1893

Phillip C. Drynforth 1894

Charles K. Offeld 1895

John E. Elliot 1896

Thomas A. Banning 1897

Robert H. Parkinson 1898

Taylor E. Brown 1899

Charles C. Linthicum 1900

William H. Dyrenforth 1901

Lewis L. Coburn 1902

Albert H. Adams 1903

Henry S. Towle 1904

C. Clarence Poole 1905

George P. Fisher 1906

Charles E. Pickard 1907

Thomas F. Sheridan 1908

Edward Rector 1909

Walter H. Chamberlin 1910

Frank T. Brown 1911

Julius W. Dyrenforth 1912
*Year the Titanic sank*

George P. Barton 1913

John L. Jackson 1914
*WWI breaks out*

John W. Hill 1915

Samuel E. Hibben 1916

Otto R. Barnett 1917

Louis K. Gibson 1918
*WWI ends*

George E. Waldo 1919

George L. Wilkinson 1920

Charles C. Buckley 1921

Walter Clyde Jones 1922

John H. Lee 1923

Wallace R. Lane 1924

William O. Belt 1925

Frank Parker Davis 1926

Samuel W. Banning 1927   

Russell Wiles 1928

Donald M. Carter 1929
*Great Depression starts*

George A. Chritton 1930

George I. Haight 1931

Henry M. Huxley 1932

John B. Macauley 1933

Clarence E. Mehlhope 1934

Robert Lewis Ames 1935

John A. Dienner 1936

Wm. Negarre Cromwell 1937

Percival H. Truman 1938

George T. May, Jr. 1939
*US enters WWII*

Charles L. Byron 1940

Arthur H. Boettcher 1941

Franklin M. Warden 1942

Lester B. Mann 1943

Lynn A. Williams 1944
(President Williams dies while holding IPLAC office.)

J. Bernard Rhiess 1944 & 1945
*WWII ends*

Ira J. Wilson 1946

Carlton Hill 1947

Cyril A. Soans 1948

Arthur A. Olson 1949

Glen E. Smith 1950
*Korean War starts*

Harry W. Lindsey, Jr. 1951

Albin C. Ahlberg 1952

Lee J. Gary 1953
*Korean War ends*

Clarence F. Poole 1954

Bernard A. Schroder 1955

Roy H. Olson 1956

Albert H. Pendleton 1957

John A. Marzall 1958

Benjamin H. Sherman 1959

Robert C. Brown, Jr. 1960
*JFK elected President*

Axel A. Hofgren 1961

James P. Hume 1962

George N. Hibben 1963
*Kennedy assassinated*

Edward A. Haight 1964
*Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law*

Francis W. Parker, Jr. 1965

Sidney Neuman 1966

Foorman L. Mueller 1967

J. Arthur Gross 1968
*US lands on the moon*

Richard R. Trexler 1969

Charles W. Rummier 1970

Walther E. Wyss 1971

Richard L. Voit 1972

Patrick H. Hume 1973

James R. Sweeney 1974

Thomas R. Juettner 1975

Theodore R. Scott 1976

George R. Clark 1977

Howard W. Clement 1978

John J. Chrystal 1979

C. Frederick Leydig 1980
(Founding member of Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.)

Arthur A. Olson, Jr. 1981

William T. McClain 1982

Seymour Rothstein 1983

Francis A. Even 1984
(Founding member of Fitch, Even Tabin & Flanery LLP)

Jack R. Halvorsen 1985

Theodore W. Anderson 1986

Paul C. Flattery 1987

Ronald B. Coolley 1988

Robert F. Conte 1989

John G. Premo 1990

Raymond I. Geraldson, Jr. 1991

Ronald J. LaPorte 1992

Charles A. Laff 1993

Joseph Krieger 1994

Edward H. Gorman, Jr. 1995

Dolores K. Hanna 1996
(First Female President)

Melvin F. Jager 1997

R. Dennis Claessens 1998

Wiliam T. McGrath 1999
(Founding member of Davis McGrath LLC)

Jerold A. Jacover 2000

R. Mark Halligan 2001

Linda A. Kuczma 2002
(Second Female President)

Robert Barrett 2003

Mary J. Schnurr 2004
(Third Female President)

Mark I. Feldman 2005

Debbie Wright 2006

James R. Sobieraj 2007

Joseph E. Shipley 2008

Patrick G. Burns 2009

Edward D. Manzo 2010

Janet M. Garetto 2011

Janet A. Pioli 2012

Brent A. Hawkins 2013

Garret A. Leach 2014

Alisa C. Simmons 2015

Serena J. Pruitt 2016

Paul R. Kitch 2017

Adam Kelly 2018

Charles Shifley 2019

Marc Richards 2020

Erin Lothson 2021

Tiffany Gehrke 2022