The following individuals have served as TMS's top elected official, since TMS was established as an independent professional society in 1957.
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.*
* Deceased