2024
Jennifer Gouin, Lincoln
District Leader
President 2022-23
2023
Gary Anderson
2022
Dianne Chambers
2021
Michelle Ryan, Lincoln
District Leader
President
Editor, Newsletter
Co-editor, Illinois English Bulletin
2020 *Pandemic Year*
2019
Carol Medrano
2018
Betsy Kahn, DeKalb
2017
Deborah Will, Zion
Intellectual Freedom Chair,
President 2021-22 and 2009-10
2016
Angelo Bonadonna, Chicago
Webmaster
District Leader
President 2011-12
2015
Cheryl Staley
President 2013-14
2014
Marilyn Hollman
2013
Donna Binns, Charleston
District Leader
2012
Norman Boyer, Chicago
District Leader
2011
Jean Black
President 2007-08
2010
Herb Ramlose
2009
Tom McCann
2008
Claire Lamonica
2007
Richard Pomier
Secretary
2006
Herb Ramlose
Treasurer
2005
Betty Jane Wagner
2004
Jean Wallace
President 2000-2001
District Leader
2003
George Shea
President, 1995-96
Convention Sites Committee
2002
Donna Blackall
President 1986-87
2001
Kay Parker, Normal
President 1993-94
District Leader
2000
Wendell Schwartz, Chicago
President 1990-91
Treasurer
1999
Janice Neuleib, Normal
President 1990-91
Executive Secretary 2000-2020
1998
Sue Howell, Carbondale
President 1991-92
S.L.A.T.E. Representative
Publications Committee
1997
Kay Jacob, Romeoville
District Leader
President 1989-90
Honorary Awards Chair, 1985-86
1996
James Stottlar, Urbana
Executive Secretary 1986-96
1995
Ken Holmes, East St. Louis
District Leader
President 1987-88
Honorary Awards Committee
1994
Lydia Martin, Roxana
District Leader
Local Arrangements Chair 1985
Honorary Awards Committee
1993
Rachel B. Faries, Alton
District Leader
President 1984-85
Honorary Awards Committee Chair 1987-97
1992
Robert Workman, Evanston
District Leader
Audit Committee Chair
Local Arrangements Chair 1990
1991
Lee Mulcrone, Hoffman Estates
District Leader
President 1979-80
Illinois Curriculum Council Committee
1990
David Briggs, LaGrange
Program Committee
Local Arrangements Committee
1989
Marti Swanson, Fox Lake
District Leader
Secretary 1977-1989
1988
Mildred Largent, Carbondale
District Leader
Honorary Awards Committee
1987
Beth Stiffler, Macomb
District Leader
President 1985-86
Secretary 1975-77
1986
Dorothy Matthews, Urbana
Treasurer 1970-74
Editor, Illinois English Bulletin, 1975-87
1985
Raymond Hollmann, O’Fallon
District Leader
President 1972-73
1984
Mary Sasse, Carbondale
District Leader
President 1980-81
Legislative Liaison Committee Representative
1983
Glenn Grever, Normal
President 1978-79
Illinois Curriculum Council Representative
1982
Jeanne Claeys, Rockford
District Leader
Secretary 1969-71
Eldonna Everts
Elementary English Committee Chair
Illinois Alliance for the Arts Education
Tom Kent, Peoria
President 1988-89
District Leader
Local Arrangements Chair 1972, 1973, 1981
1981
Addie Hochstrasser, Paris
President 1950-51
Taimi Ranta, Normal
Articulation/Intellectual Freedom Committee
Honorary Awards Committee Chair
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Representative
Norman Stewart, Decatur
District Leader
President 1976-77
1980
Mary Brinkmann, Glen Ellyn
District Leader
Past President 1973-74
Honorary Awards Committee Chair 1980-84
Margaret Crowe, Carbondale
District Leader
President 1975-76
Glen Rittmueller, Hillside
President 1974-75
1979
Margaret Ann Cummings, Mt. Vernon
President 1961-62
Mary Ellen Poorman, Mattoon
District Leader
1978
Wilmer Lamar, Decatur and Urbana
President 1953-54
Co-editor/Editor, Illinois English Bulletin 1954-74
Executive Secretary 1967-78
1977
Paul Jacobs, Urbana
President 1971-72
Executive Secretary 1978-84
Special Projects Chair 1967-71
1976
John Heissler, Normal
President 1969-70
Roy Weshinskey, Carbondale
President 1962-63
1975
Stanley Gritzbaugh, Rockford
President 1970-71
Catherine Hudson, Mt. Carmel
District Leader
1974
Clarence Hach, Evanston
District Leader
President 1977-78
1973
F.P. Armstrong, Rochelle
District Leader
Wilbur Hatfield, Chicago
President 1913-14
Dorothea Trump, Naperville
District Leader
1972
Jessie Frederick, East Moline
District Leader
J.N. Hook, Urbana
President, 1960-61
Editor, Illinois English Bulletin, 1949-59
Melba Wixom, Waukegan
District Leader