Past Presidents of the AMS

Otto Kinkeldey (1935–1936)

Carl Engel (1937–1938)

Carleton Sprague Smith (1939–1940)

Otto Kinkeldey (1941–1942)

Glen Haydon (1943–1944)

Charles Seeger (1945–1946)

George S. Dickinson (1947–1948)

Curt Sachs (1949–1950)

Gustave Reese (1951–1952)

Donald Jay Grout (1953–1954)

Karl Geiringer (1955–1956)

J. Murray Barbour (1957–1958)

Oliver Strunk (1959–1960)

Donald Jay Grout (1961–1962)

Nathan Broder (1963–1964)

William Mitchell (1965–1966)

Jan LaRue (1967–1968)

William S. Newman (1969–1970)

Claude V. Palisca (1971–1972)

Charles Hamm (1973–1974)

Janet Knapp (1975–1976)

James Haar (1977–1978)

Howard Mayer Brown (1979–1980)

Howard E. Smither (1981–1982)

Richard Crawford (1983–1984)

Margaret Bent (1985–1986)

Lewis Lockwood (1987–1988)

H. Colin Slim (1989–1990)

H. Wiley Hitchcock (1991–1992)

Ellen Rosand (1993–1994)

Philip Gossett (1995–1996)

James Webster (1997–1998)

Ruth A. Solie (1999–2000)

Jessie Ann Owens (2001–2002)

Wye J. Allanbrook (2003)

J. Peter Burkholder (2003–2004)

Elaine Sisman (2005–2006)

Charles M. Atkinson (2007–2008)

Jane Bernstein (2009–2010)

Anne Walters Robertson (2011–2012)

Christopher Reynolds (2013–2014)

Ellen T. Harris (2015–2016)

Martha Feldman (2017–2018)

Suzanne G. Cusick (2019–2020)

Steven R. Swayne (2021–2022)

Georgia Cowart (2023–2024)

Julie Cumming (2025–2026)