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Past Chairs of the MBACC Board of Directors

  • Jasper B. Ramsey, 1938
  • Lewis N. Clark, 1939
  • P.G. Winstead, 1940
  • S.P. Gardner, 1942
  • D. Stowe Crouse, 1946
  • H. Lloyd Macklen, 1947
  • Ben M. Graham, 1948
  • Ralph J. Hewlett, 1949
  • Oliver Miller, 1950
  • Mark C. Garner, 1952
  • Harry Tallevast, 1953
  • Steven C. Chapman, 1954
  • Luke K. Ward, 1955
  • Robert H. Jones, 1956
  • W. Leroy Harrelson, 1957
  • John Campbell, 1957
  • Dwight C. Lambe, 1958
  • Frank Hughes, 1959
  • Gerbrand Poster, 1960
  • Justin Plyer, 1961
  • Bill Gasque, 1962
  • Henderson Guerry, 1963
  • Joe Singleton, 1964
  • William J. Sigmon, 1965
  • E. Allison Farlow, 1966
  • Zeb M. Thomas, 1967
  • John Thorne, 1968
  • Lloyd Bell, 1969
  • W.E. Cameron, 1970
  • C.L. Donevant Jr., 1971
  • Lois Bowen, 1972
  • Peter Grier, 1973
  • Thomas J. Rogers, 1974
  • Bill Robbins, 1977
  • Donald D. Leonard, 1978
  • Barry Thigpen, 1979
  • Lindsay Nelson, 1980
  • William Hennecy, 1981
  • Eva Dell Collins, 1982
  • William F. Pritchard, 1983
  • William H. Alford, 1984
  • Harry E. Thomas, 1985
  • William J. Sigmon Jr., 1986
  • J. Michael Pate, 1987
  • Daniel H. Isaac Jr., 1988
  • Grant Kuhn, 1989
  • J. Roddy Swaim, 1990
  • G. David Bishop, 1991
  • Suzette Rogers, 1992, 1997
  • Tom Moore, 1993
  • G. Gerald Quickel, 1994
  • Mark Lazarus, 1995
  • Charlie Stuart, 1996
  • M. Lance Thompson, 1998
  • Vernie Dove, 1999
  • Mike Wooten, 2000
  • Gary Loftus, 2001
  • Dennis Wade, 2002
  • Robert “Shep” Guyton, 2003
  • W. Wayne Gray, 2005
  • David Brittain, 2006
  • Steve Chapman, 2007
  • Brant Branham, 2008
  • Franklin Daniels, 2010
  • Richard Singleton, 2011
  • Tommy Bouchette, 2013
  • Ted Fortenberry, 2014
  • Jim Creel Jr., 2016
  • Todd Setzer, 2017
  • Carla Schuessler, 2018
  • Matt Klugman, 2019
  • Steve Mays, 2020
  • Billy McGonigal, 2021
  • Alex Husner, 2022
  • Ryain Swaim, 2023
  • John Rutenberg, 2024
  • Patrick Norton, 2025

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