Past Presidents of the Student Body and the Executive Committee 1905-06 to Present
Year, President's Name, Ugr/Law
1905-06 Americus Frederic White BA '01, MA '04, BS '05, PhD '06
1906-07 John West Addison BA '05, MA '06, law student '07-'08
1907-08 James Howard Larrick 1908
1908-09 Otho Charlton Jackson 1908-1910L
1909-10 John Laurence Daniel MA '05, engineering student '08-'10
1910-11 Charles Edward Burks 1910-1912L
1911-12 John Peyton Hobson 1908-1912L
1912-13 William McElwee Miller 1912
1913-14 Jonah Lupton Larrick 1915
1914-15 Philip Pendleton Gibson 1913-1915L
1915-16 Edwin Beswick Shultz 1916
1916-17 Evan Sidebottom McCord Jr. 1915-1917L
1917-18 Charles Edmund Worth 1916, law student '16-'18 (to November 1917)
1917-18 Benjamin Flournoy Tillar 1918 (to April 1918)
1917-18 John Lisle McChord 1918 (May 1918)
1918-19 (no Student EC organized for the fall semester)
1918-19 Thomas Selden Jones 1918-1920L
1919-20 James Marshall Jennings 1920
1920-21 William Olin Burther 1917-1921L
1921-22 Homer Adams Holt 1918-1923L
1922-23 William Edwin Holt, Jr. 1923
1923-24 Randolph Gordon Whittle 1921-1924L
1924-25 John Cooper Morrison Jr. 1924-1925L
1925-26 Warren Edward Tilson 1925-1936L
1926-27 Robert Maynard Holt 1927
1927-28 Edward H. Miller 1928
1928-29 John Bell Towill 1929L
1929-30 Lewis Franklin Powell 1929-1931L
1930-31 O. Jennings Wilkinson, Jr. 1928-1931L
1931-32 Graham Morison 1930-1932L
1932-33 Harry Lewis Fitzgerald 1936L
1933-34 Sherwood Wise 1932-1934L
1934-35 John Willis Ball 1932-1935L
1935-36 Amos Alonzo Maynard 1936-1938L
1936-37 Fletcher F. Maynard 1936-1938L
1937-38 William Laney Wilson, Jr. 1938L
1938-39 James Vaughan Beale 1936-1939L
1939-40 Cecil Wood Taylor 1939-1941L
1940-41 Allen Thomas Synder 1939-1941L
1941-42 Howard Wesley Dobbins 1941-1942L
1942-43 Lee Mountcastle Kenna 1940-1943L (to January 1943)
1942-43 Bates William Bryan 1948 (to February 1943)
1942-43 William Joseph Noonan Jr. 1943 (to June 1943)
1943-44 no minutes
1944-45 no minutes
1945-46 no minutes
1946-47 John George Fox 1944-1949L
1947-48 Fred M. Vinson, Jr. 1948-1951L
1948-49 Charles Spurgeon Rowe 1945-1950L
1949-50 Mark Whitney Saurs 1949-1951L
1950-51 Samuel Brinson Hollis 1951
1951-52 Howard Bratches 1951-1953L
1952-53 Isham Malle Sheffield III 1953-1955L
1953-54 William Melville Bailey 1953-1955L
1954-55 Watson Allen Bowes Jr. 1955
1955-56 Ellis Branch Drew Jr. 1956-1958L
1956-57 Robert Inabnit Peeples 1957
1957-58 John A. Groobey 1958
1958-59 Charles Royce Hough III 1959
1959-60 James Frank Surface Jr. 1960
1960-61 R. Kent Frazier 1961
1961-62 Andrew W McThenia Jr. 1958-1963L
1962-63 Timothy Giles Ireland 1960-1963L
1963-64 William Alfred Noell Jr. 1964
1964-65 James Ellsworth Kulp 1965L
1965-66 Frederick Myers Mindel 1966
1966-67 William Horace Jeffress Jr. 1967
1967-68 Richard Hafford Nash Jr. 1968
1968-69 John Ellsworth Passavant III 1969
1969-70 Marvin Charles Henberg 1970
1970-71 Francis McQuaid Lawrence 1971-1975L
1971-72 Stephen William Robinson 1972-1975L
1972-73 Robert Owen Brennan 1973
1973-74 Douglas Robert Schwartz 1974L
1974-75 Benjamin Lee Bailey 1975
1975-76 Leland Graves McCullough III 1976
1976-77 Thomas Hoke Hunter III 1977-1983L
1977-78 James M. Underhill 1978
1978-79 Waller Trolinger Dudley 1974-1979L
1979-80 Stephen Henry Abraham 1980-1983L
1980-81 Robert Harold Willis Jr. 1981
1981-82 Eric Tipton Myers 1982
1982-83 Bennett Leonard Ross 1983
1983-84 Robert Crofford Jenevein 1984
1984-85 John Coleman Dawson III 1985
1985-86 John Bellinger Lewis 1986
1986-87 Shayam Kumar Menon 1987
1987-88 Bradley Brian Root 1988
1988-89 Christopher Sanchez de Movellan 1989
1989-90 Willard Loring Dumas III 1991
1990-91 Wallace Thompson Hatcher III 1991
1991-92 Giles Gilpin Perkins 1992L
1992-93 Joshua William MacFarland 1993
1993-94 Robert K. Tompkins 1990-1994L
1994-95 Kevin Stark Webb 1988-1995L
1995-96 Joseph Keith Benedict 1996L
1996-97 Sanford Graham Hooper 1997-2003L
1997-98 Kevin Kamel Batteh 1995-1998L
1998-99 Elizabeth Marlyn Formidoni 1996-1999L
1999-2000 Jeffery Kenneth Cook 2001
2000-01 John Dexter Comly 2001
2001-02 Robert Parlow Naftel 2002
2002-03 Gerald Morton Titus III 2000-2003L
2003-04 Helen Broughton Hughes 2004
2004-05 Marie Amelia Trimble 2005-2008L
2005-06 Charles Richardson Yates III 2006-2010L
2006-07 Robert Edward Rain 2007
2007-08 Joshua Kerry Payne 2008L
2008-09 Richard Simon Cleary Jr. 2009
2009-10 Eric Julian Hoffman 2010L
2010-11 Scott Graham Centorino 2011
2011-12 Scott Hotchkiss McClintock 2012
2012-13 Steele Austin Burrow 2013
2013-14 Nathan Anderson Kelly 2014
2014-15 Lucy Wade Shapiro 2015
2015-16 Thomas Mason Grist 2018
2016-2017 John Wilson Miller II 2017
2017-2018 Thomas Mason Grist 2018
2018-2019 Elizabeth Mugo 2019
2019-2020 William W. Bolton 2020
2020-2021 Charles Calhoun 2021
2021-2022 James H. Torbert 2023
2022-2023 James H. Tobert 2023
2023-2024 Martha C. Ernest 2024
A Note from Professor Emeritus John Gunn:
It's a list that includes many distinguished people:
- An Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who previously had served as President of the American Bar Association. And a wonderful member of the Board of Trustees: Lewis Powell
- A General Counsel of the General Motors Corporation, also having served previously as President of the American Bar Association, Rector of the Board of Trustees: Ross Malone
- Two Solicitor Generals of the United States, one of whom was the son of the Chief Justice of the United States: Graham Morrison and Fred Vinson, Jr.
- A Governor of West Virginia, subsequently General Counsel of the Union Carbide Corporation and member of the Board of Trustees: Rocky Holt
- An Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal: Bill Jeffress
- An Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Journal, subsequently General Counsel of Bell South: Bennett Ross
- First Woman EC President: Elizabeth Formidoni
- First Undergraduate Woman EC President: Helen (Hughes) Sanders, W&L Trustee (2017)
- Chief of Staff for Mississippi Governor: Scott McClintock
- Bronze Star with Valor, United States Marine Corps: Robert Rain
- Rhodes Scholar; President of The College of Idaho (2009-2015); President of Linfield College (2005-2006): Marvin Henberg
- CEO of commercial real-estate brokerage firm Cresa (2016-present), previously CEO of Cushman & Wakefield (2007-2015), one of the world's largest commercial real-estate firms: James M Underhill
- Many other members of the Board of Trustees, including Frank Surface, Rector of the Board, Samuel Hollis, Charles Royce Hough (also valedictorian), Charles Rowe (President of the Associated Press Board of Directors 1976-1985; President, Associated Press Managing Editors Association, 1969), Waller "Beau" Dudley (President, Alumni Association 1992-1993, W&L Executive Director of Alumni Engagement 2006-present)
Original and subsequent contributions by Tim Heisterhagen '06, University Registrar Scott Dittman, Jane Smith, Lisa McCown, Paige Gance, and John M. Gunn '45.