| Year | President | Institution |
| 2020-21 | Tammi Vacha-Haase, PhD | Boise State University |
| 2019-20 | Julie Coonrod | University of New Mexico |
| 2018-19 | Janet Sturman | University of Arizona |
| 2017-18 | Kate Hausbeck Korgan | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| 2016-17 | Rebecca Aanerud | University of Washington |
| 2015-16 | Lorie Liebrock | New Mexico Tech |
| 2014-15 | Elisa Mattison | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| 2013-14 | David Wittrock | North Dakota State University |
| 2012-13 | Ramona Mellott | Northern Arizona University |
| 2011-12 | Peter Dorhout | Colorado State University |
| 2010-11 | Carl Fox | Montana State University |
| 2009-10 | Magirit von Braun | University of Idaho |
| 2008-09 | Linda Lacey | New Mexico State University |
| 2007-08 | James Moran | University of Denver |
| 2006-07 | Sally Francis | Oregon State University |
| 2005-06 | Donna Schafer | Humboldt State University |
| 2004-05 | Paul Tate | Idaho State University |
| 2003-04 | Bianca Bernstein | Arizona State University |
| 2002-03 | David Chapman | University of Utah |
| 2001-02 | Moheb Ghali | Western Washington University |
| 2000-01 | Jonathan Kotler | University of Southern California |
| 1999-00 | Timothy Pettibone | New Mexico State University |
| 1998-99 | Carol B. Lynch | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 1997-98 | Ann W. Hart | Univ., Northridge 1997-98 |
| 1996-97 | Mack Johnson | California State Univ., Northridge |
| 1995-96 | Bruce Clayman | Simon Fraser University |
| 1994-95 | Steadham Upham | University of Oregon |
| 1993-94 | David Greenfield | University of Hawaii |
| 1992-93 | Elaine Wangberg | California State University, Chico |
| 1991-92 | Lawrence Piette | Utah State University |
| 1990-91 | Brian L. Foster | Arizona State University |
| 1989-90 | Leland Shannon | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1988-89 | John Nellor | University of Nevada, Reno |
| 1987-88 | Peter Suedfeld | University of British Columbia |
| 1986-87 | A. Charlene McDermott | City College, City University of NY |
| 1985-86 | Michael P. Malone | Montana State University |
| 1984-85 | Lee B. Jones | University of Arizona |
| 1983-84 | Vivian A. Vidoli | California State University, Fresno |
| 1982-83 | James L. Clayton | University of Utah |
| 1981-82 | Reuben W. Smith | University of the Pacific |
| 1980-81 | Milton E. Lipetz | University of Colorado |
| 1979-80 | Dale R. Comstock | Central Washington University |
| 1978-79 | Howard P. McKaughan | University of Hawaii |
| 1977-78 | Paul A. Albrecht | Claremont Graduate School |
| 1976-77 | Arthur R. Reynolds | University of Northern Colorado |
| 1975-76 | Otis H. Shao | University of the Pacific |
| 1974-75 | Wendell H. Bragonier | Colorado State University |
| 1973-74 | Sanford S. Elberg | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1972-73 | Charles G. Mayo | University of Southern California |
| 1971-72 | William J. Burke | Arizona State University |
| 1970-71 | Philip M. Rice | Claremont Graduate School |
| 1969-70 | George P. Springer | University of New Mexico |
| 1968-69 | Wytze Gorter | University of Hawaii |
| 1967-68 | Wesley P. Lloyd | Brigham Young University |
| 1966-67 | Thomas D. O’Brien | University of Nevada |
| 1965-66 | George C. Feliz | San Francisco State University |
| 1964-65 | Henry P. Hansen | Oregon State University |
| 1963-64 | James Brown | San Jose State University |
| 1962-63 | Milton Klotzel | University of Southern California |
| 1961-62 | Robert H. Bruce | University of Wyoming |
| 1960-61 | Luther Lee | Claremont Graduate School |
| 1959-60 | Herbert Rhodes | University of Arizona |
| 1958-59 | Stuart Hazlett | Washington State University |
