Children's Literature Association Presidents

2022-2023 Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida and Amy Pattee, Simmons University (Co-Presidents)
2021-2022 Elisabeth Rose Gruner, University of Richmond
2020-2021 Thomas Crisp, Georgia State University
2019-2020 Karen Michele Chandler, University of Louisville
2018-2019 Katharine Capshaw, University of Connecticut
2017-2018 Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University
2016-2017 Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida
2015-2016 Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University
2014-2015 Kara Keeling, Christopher Newport University
2013-2014 Claudia Mills, University of Colorado - Boulder
2012-2013 Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University
2011-2012 Michelle Martin, University of South Carolina
2010-2011 Mike Cadden, Missouri Western State University
2009-2010 Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Eastern Connecticut State University
2008-2009 Adrienne Kertzer, University of Calgary
2007-2008 Martha Hixon, Middle Tennessee State University
2006-2007 Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State University
2005-2006 Anne K. Phillips, Kansas State University
2004-2005 Craig Werner, Buffalo State College
2003-2004 Joel Chaston, Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University)
2002-2003 Judith Plotz, George Washington University
2001-2002 J.D. Stahl, Virginia Tech.
2000-2001 Mark I. West, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
1999-2000 Kathy Piehl, Mankato State University (now Minnesota State University - Mankato)
1998-1999 Sylvia Iskander, University of Southwest Louisiana (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
1997-1998 Barbara Garner, Carleton University
1996-1997 Ruth Anne Thompson, Pace University
1995-1996 Roderick McGillis, University of Calgary
1994-1995 Nancy Huse, Augustana College
1993-1994 Karen Nelson Hoyle, University of Minnesota (CLRC)
1992-1993 Sarah Smedman, Moorhead State University
1991-1992 Janice Alberghene, Fitchburg State College
1989-1991 Norma Bagnall, Missouri Western State College (now Missouri Western State University)
1988-1989 Perry Nodelman, University of Winnipeg
1987-1988 Lois Kuznets, San Diego State University
1986-1987 Virginia Wolf, University of Wisconsin - Stout
1985-1986 Malcom Usrey, Clemson University
1984-1985 John Cech, University of Florida
1983-1984 Alethea Helbig, Eastern Michigan University
1982-1983 Ruth MacDonald, Northeastern University
1981-1982 Rebecca Lukens, Miami University
1980-1981 Taimi M. Ranta, Illinois State University
1979-1980 Marilyn Apseloff, Kent State University
1977-1979 Jon C. Stott,Western Michigan University, University of Alberta

 

Founder, Executive Secretary

1973-1976 Anne Devereaux Jordan, University of Hartford