The following individuals have served as TMS's top elected official, since TMS was established as an independent professional society in 1957.
2021
Ellen Cerreta
2020
Thomas Battle
2019
James Foley
2018
Kevin Hemker
2017
David DeYoung
2016
Stanley M. Howard
2015
Patrice E. A. Turchi
2014
Hani Henein
2013
Elizabeth A. Holm
2012
Wolfgang A. Schneider
2011
Garry W. Warren
2010
George T. 'Rusty' Gray III
2009
Ray D. Peterson
2008
Diran Apelian
2007
Robert D. Shull
2006
Brajendra Mishra
2005
Tresa M. Pollock
2004
Gregory J. Hildeman
2003
Dan J. Thoma
2002
John E. Allison
2001
Wayne R. Hale
2000
Y. Austin Chang
1999
J. Wayne Jones
1998
Euel R. Cutshall
1997
Robert H. Wagoner
1996
Bruce W. Wessels
1995
Paul G.Campbell, Jr.
1994
Lionel C. Kimerling
1993
J. Keith Brimacombe
1992
Gordon H. Geiger
1991
Ronald E. Miller
1990
Albert R.C. Westwood
1989
Robert W. Bartlett
1988
Frank V. Nolfi, Jr.
1987
Alan D. Zunkel
1986
George S. Ansell
1985
Peter Tarassoff
1984
Ellis D. Verink, Jr.
1983
Milton E. Wadsworth
1982
Alan Lawley
1981
Kenneth J. Richards
1980
Dale F. Stein
1979
G. Robert Couch
1978
Robert I. Jaffee
1977
Robert E. Lund
1976
Harold W. Paxton
1975
Thomas A. Henrie
1974
James C. Fulton
1973
Julius J. Harwood
1972
David Swan
1971
Charles R. Taylor
1970
William J. Harris, Jr.
1969
Paul E. Queneau
1968
Michael Tenenbaum
1967
J. Harry Jackson
1966
Albert E. Lee, Jr.
1965
Harold B. Emerick
1964
Jack H. Scaff
1963
R. C. Cole
1962
Karl L. Fetters
1961
J. Stuart Smart, Jr.
1960
Carleton C. Long
1959
John Chipman
1958
Walter R. Hibbard, Jr.
1957
John C. Kinnear, Jr.