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Past Presidents

Walter R. Thompson	2017-2018
Elizabeth Joy	2016-2017
Lawrence Armstrong	2015-2016
Carol Ewing Garber	2014-2015
William Dexter	2013-2014
Janet Walberg Rankin	2012-2013
Barbara Ainsworth	2011-2012
Thomas Best	2010-2011
James M. Pivarnik	2009-2010
Melinda Millard-Stafford	2008-2009
Robert E. Sallis	2007-2008
J. Larry Durstine	2006-2007
Carl Foster	2005-2006
William O. Roberts	2004-2005
W. Larry Kenney	2003-2004
Edward T. Howley	2002-2003
Angela D. Smith	2001-2002
Priscilla A. Clarkson	2000-2001
Barry A. Franklin	1999-2000
Paul D. Thompson	1998-99
Charlotte A. Tate	1997-98
Steven N. Blair	1996-97
Steven P. Van Camp	1995-96
Timothy P. White	1994-95
Russell R. Pate	1993-94
Robert C. Cantu	1992-93
Brian J. Sharkey	1991-92
Neil B. Oldridge	1990-91
Lyle J. Micheli	1989-90
Barbara L. Drinkwater	1988-89
Peter B. Raven	1987-88
John R. Sutton	1986-87
Carl V. Gisolfi	1985-86
John A. Bergfeld	1984-85
William L. Haskell	1983-84
Michael L. Pollock	1982-83
Henry S. Miller, Jr.	1981-82
David R. Lamb	1980-81
James S. Skinner	1979-80
Jack H. Wilmore	1978-79
John L. Boyer	1977-78
David L. Costill	1976-77
Roy J. Shephard	1975-76
Charles M. Tipton	1974-75
Howard G. Knuttgen	1973-74
Albert B. Craig, Jr.	1972-73
John A. Faulkner	1971-72
John P. Naughton	1970-71
Leonard A. Larson	1969-70
Fred L. Allman, Jr.	1968-69
Carl S. Blyth	1967-68
Warren R. Guild	1966-67
Bruno Balke	1965-66
Elsworth R. Buskirk	1964-65
Allan J. Ryan	1963-64
Henry J. Montoye	1962-63
Peter V. Karpovich	1961-62
D. Bruce Dill	1960-61
Albert S. Hyman	1959-60
Louis F. Bishop	1958-59
Joseph B. Wolffe	1954-58

ACSM Founders

Louis Bishop
Clifford Brownell
Albert Hyman
Ernst Jokl
Peter Karpovich
Leonard Larson
Grover Mueller
Neils Neilson
Josephine Rathbone
Arthur Steinhaus
Joseph Wolffe

For more detail about ACSM history, see Out of Many, One: A History of the American College of Sports Medicine by Jack W. Berryman, Ph.D., FACSM. Click here for more information about the book.