President
Rebecca S. Allen (2025–26)
The Psychology Building
330 Kirkbride Lane
The University of Alabama
Box 870348
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0348
Phone: 205-310-2244
President-elect
Katherine Ramos (2026–27)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Medicine Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
Department of Population Health Sciences
Senior Fellow, Duke University Aging Center
Duke University Medical Center
Phone: 919-416-3434
Past President
Walter Boot (2024–25)
Weill Cornell Medicine
420 East 70th Street
3rd Floor, Suite B
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-746-4007
APA Division 20 Presidents
2025-26: Rebecca S. Allen
2024-25: Walter Boot
2023-24: Grace Caskie
2022-23: Rowena Gomez
2021-22: Joann Montepare
2020-21: Lisa Brown
2019-20: Jennifer Margrett
2018-19: Michael Marsiske
2017-18: Joseph Gaugler
2016-17: Manfred Diehl
2015-16: Harvey Sterns
2014-15: Sara Czaja
2013-14: Bill Haley
2012-13: Patricia Parmelee
2011-12: Carolyn Aldwin
2010-11: Cameron Camp
2009-10: Peter Lichtenberg
2008-09: Elizabeth Zelinski
2007-08: Christopher Hertzog
2006-07: Elizabeth Stine Morrow
2005-06: Neil Charness
2004-05: Leah Light
2003-04: Bob Knight
2002-03: Harvey L. Sterns
2001-02: Ronald P. Abeles
2000-01: Roger A. Dixon
1999-00: Toni Antonucci
1998-99: Timothy Salthouse
1997-98: Joan T. Erber
1996-97: John Cavanaugh
1995-96: Susan Krauss Whitbourne 1994-95: Steven H. Zarit
1993-94: Sherry L. Willis
1992-93: Michael Smyer
1991-92: Denise C. Park
1990-91: Anderson D. Smith
1989-90: Diana Woodruff-Pak
1988-89: David Chiriboga
1987-88: Donald Kausler
1986-87: Lilian Troll
1985-86: Paul Costa
1984-85: Ilene Siegler
1983-84: Leonard W. Poon
1982-83: John Nesselroade
1981-82: Irene Hulicka
1980-81: Betty Birren
1979-80: Martha Storandt
1978-79: James Fozard
1977-78: Robert Kastenbaum
1976-77: Paul Baltes
1975-76: David Arenberg
1974-75: Herman Feifel
1973-74: K. Warner Schaie
1972-73: Lissy Jarvik
1971-72: Leonard Cottesman
1970-71: Powell Lawton
1969-70: Carl Eisdorfer
1968-69: Joseph H. Britton
1967-68: Marion E. Bunch
1966-67: Neil W. Coppinger
1965-66: Walter D. Obrist
1964-65: Wilma T. Donahue
1963-64: Jack Botwinick
1962-63: Ivan N. Mensh
1961-62: Ward C. Halstead
1960-61: Robert W. Kleemeier
1959-60: Robert J. Havighurst
1958-59: Ross A. McFarland
1957-58: Nancy Bayley
1956-57: James E. Birren
1955-56: John E. Anderson
1954-55: Oscar J. Kaplan
1953-54: Irving Lorge
1952-53: Nathan E. Shock
1951-52: Harold E. Jones
1950-51: Raymond G. Kuhlen
1949-50: George Lawton
1948-49: Herbert S. Conrad
1947-48: Walter R. Miles
1946-47: Sidney L. Pressey
1946: Sidney L. Pressey (Presiding)
Last updated: September 2025Date created: 2012
