Section Chairs
1984 - Present
- 2023 – Sonja Strah-Pleynet
- 2022 – Carol Mulrooney
- 2021 – Raj (SB) Rajur
- 2020 – Anna W. Sromek
- 2019 – Andrew Scholte
- 2018 – Mindy Levine
- 2017 – Leland L. Johnson, Jr.
- 2016 – Jerry P. Jasinski
- 2015 – Katherine L. Lee
- 2014 – Catherine Costello
- 2013 – Liming Shao
- 2012 – Ruth Tanner
- 2011 – Patrick Gordon
- 2010 – John McKew
- 2009 – E. Joseph Billo
- 2008 – Marietta Schwartz
- 2007 – Mukund Chorghade
- 2006 – Patricia Mabrouk
- 2005 – Amy Tapper
- 2004 – Jean Fuller-Stanley
- 2003 – John L. Neumeyer
- 2002 – Morton Z. Hoffman
- 2001 – Timothy B. Frigo
- 2000 – Doris I. Lewis
- 1999 – Donald O. Rickter
- 1998 – Michael J. Hearn
- 1997 – Martin Idelson
- 1996 – Patricia L. Samuel
- 1995 – Valerie Wilcox
- 1994 – James Kaufman
- 1993 – Dorothy J. Phillips
- 1992 – Katie A. Stygall
- 1991 – Charles E. Kolb
- 1990 – E. Joseph Billo
- 1989 – Michael E. Strem
- 1988 – Thomas R. Gilbert
- 1987 – Lloyd D. Taylor
- 1986 – Donald J. Ciappenelli
- 1985 – Myron S. Simon
- 1984 – James B. Hendrickson
1941 - 1983
- 1983 – Esther A. H. Hopkins
- 1982 – Arthur S. Obermayer
- 1981 – Wallace J. Gleekman
- 1980 – S. David Bailey
- 1979 – Robert F. O’Malley
- 1978 – Truman S. Light
- 1977 – William O. Foye
- 1976 – Harry E. Keller
- 1975 – Janet S. Perkins
- 1974 – Phyllis A. Brauner, see NESACS award named in her memory
- 1973 – Edward J. Modest
- 1972 – Ernest I. Becker
- 1971 – Edward F. Levy
- 1970 – Robert E. Lyle
- 1969 – Russell T. Werby
- 1968 – Arno H. A. Heyn, see NESACS award named in his memory
- 1967 – George E. Kimball
- 1966 – Robert A. Shepard
- 1965 – Arnet L. Powell
- 1964 – Lawrence J. Heidt
- 1963 – Henry A. Hill, see NESACS award named in his memory, ACS President 1977
- 1962 – M. Kent Wilson
- 1961 – Lloyd H. Perry
- 1960 – Lloyd H. Perry
- 1959 – John L. Oncley
- 1958 – Howard H. Reynolds
- 1957 – Lockhart B. Rogers
- 1956 – Edward R. Atkinson
- 1955 – Arthur C. Cope, see ACS award named in his memory, also an ACS scholarship, ACS President 1961
- 1954 – C. Richard Morgan
- 1953 – Paul D. Bartlett
- 1952 – Thomas R. P. Gibb
- 1951 – John A. Timm
- 1950 – John T. Blake
- 1949 – Avery A. Morton
- 1948 – Ernest C. Crocker
- 1947 – Chester M. Alter
- 1946 – Chester P. Baker
- 1945 – Stuart B. Foster
- 1944 – Harold A. Iddles
- 1943 – Harold A. Iddles
- 1942 – Frederick S. Bacon
- 1941 – Avery A. Ashdown, see NESACS award named in his memory
1898 - 1940
- 1940 – John J. Healy, Jr.
- 1939 – Thorne M. Carpenter
- 1938 – Ernest H. Huntress
- 1937 – Michael J. Ahearn, S.J
- 1936 – Hervy J. Skinner
- 1935 – Grinnell Jones
- 1934 – Kenneth E. Bell
- 1933 – Lester A. Pratt
- 1932 – Raymond Stevens
- 1931 – William P. Ryan
- 1930 – Reid Hunt
- 1929 – David W. Worrall
- 1928 – Allan Winter Rowe
- 1927 – Arthur D. Holmes
- 1926 – Kenneth L. Mark
- 1925 – Lyman C. Newell, see NESACS award named in his memory
- 1924 – Hermann C. Lythgoe
- 1923 – Gustavus J. Esselen, see NESACS award named in his memory
- 1922 – Gustavus J. Esselen
- 1921 – James B. Conant, see ACS award named in his memory
- 1920 – Robert W. Neff
- 1919 – George S. Forbes, 1st recipient of Norris award
- 1918 – Homer J. Wheeler
- 1917 – Elwood B. Spear
- 1916 – Henry P. Talbot
- 1915 – Frank H. Thorpe
- 1914 – William K. Robbins
- 1913 – J. Russell Marble
- 1912 – Robert Spurr Weston
- 1911 – William C. Bray
- 1910 – Walter L. Jennings
- 1908 – S. W. Wilder
- 1908 – Gilbert N. Lewis, recipient Richards Medal in 1938.
- 1907 – Frank G. Stantial
- 1906 – Louis A. Olney
- 1905 – Charles L. Parsons
- 1904 – James F. Norris, see NESACS award named in his memory, ACS President 1925-1926
- 1903 – William H. Walker
- 1902 – Augustus H. Gill
- 1901 – Leonard Parker Kinnicutt
- 1900 – John Alden
- 1899 – Arthur D. Little, ACS President 1912-1913
- 1898 – Arthur A. Noyes, recipient Richards Medal in 1932, ACS President 1904
