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AIA member delegates will gather on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in San Diego for the annual AIA Business Meeting during the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design® 2026 to consider amendments to AIA bylaws and resolutions and candidates for national leadership positions.

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Learn about the work of the AIA Governance Task Force, which is conducting a comprehensive governance assessment and providing recommendations to enhance communication across AIA and cultivate a culture of trust and transparency.

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AIA is committed to transparency and responsible governance in service to its members and the profession. As part of this commitment, the Board of Directors maintains meeting minutes in accordance with the AIA Bylaws and Rules of the Board. AIA members in good standing may request access to Board meeting minutes.

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As the Institute has historically been run as a representative democracy, in many ways AIA presidents have reflected the values, beliefs, concerns, and aspirations of the membership as a whole. The presidents, as leaders, have also helped to shape the values and mission of the organization. Although they have much in common, each president found his or her own direction through the AIA’s leadership pathways, and each was motivated by his or her own personal passions, a sense of social and professional responsibility, and a love of architecture. Together their efforts have been instrumental in creating the culture of the professional society.

AIA presidents and their firms have designed almost every type of structure imaginable across the United States and abroad: schools, government buildings, hospitals, office buildings, ecclesiastical structures, residential buildings, transportation centers, and more. The list of iconic structures designed by AIA presidents and their firms is impressive, ranging from the dome and Senate and House wings of the U.S. Capitol to the Empire State Building and the Biltmore Estate; from the Monadnock Building and the U.S. Supreme Court Building to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception; from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center and the Pentagon to the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, and hundreds of other buildings in between.

In addition to their contributions to the built environment, AIA presidents have offered their time and expertise in serving the public good. They have worked for the federal government in the Department of the Interior, the Office of the Supervising Architect in the Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Shipping Board, and the Department of Defense. They have been appointed to such important federal advisory boards and commissions as the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Senate Park Commission (McMillan Commission), the National Park System Advisory Board, and the White House Advisory Board as well as to numerous state and local planning commissions, design advisory boards, architectural selection committees, and design competition and award juries.

Over more than a century and a half, AIA presidents have shepherded the Institute through both triumphant and trying times. Together, with AIA’s staff, they ensure that present and future generations of architects can thrive through economic, technological, and social transformations in our global society.

—R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA, adapted from his preface to A Legacy of Leadership: The Presidents of the American Institute of Architects (2008)

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2024-2025 Evelyn Lee, FAIA

2023-2024 Kimberly N. Dowdell, AIA

2022-2023 Emily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA

2021-2022 Daniel S. Hart, FAIA

2020-2021 Peter. J. Exley, FAIA

2019-2020 L. Jane Frederick, FAIA

2018-2019 William J. Bates, FAIA

2017-2018 Carl Elefante, FAIA

2016-2017 Thomas Vonier, FAIA

2015–2016 Russell A. Davidson, FAIA

2014–2015 Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA

2013–2014 Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA

2012–2013 Mickey Jacob, FAIA

2011–2012 Jeff Potter, FAIA

2010–2011 Clark D. Manus, FAIA

2009–2010 George H. Miller, FAIA

2008–2009 Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA

2007–2008 Marshall E. Purnell, FAIA

2006–2007 RK Stewart, FAIA

2005–2006 Katherine Lee Schwennsen, FAIA

2004–2005 Douglas L. Steidl, FAIA

2003–2004 Eugene C. Hopkins, FAIA

2002–2003 Thompson E. Penney, FAIA

2001–2002 Gordon H. Chong, FAIA

2000–2001 John D. Anderson, FAIA

1999–2000 Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA

1998–1999 Michael J. Stanton, FAIA

1997–1998 Ronald Arthur Altoon, FAIA

1996–1997 Raj Barr-Kumar, FAIA

1995–1996 Raymond Post Jr., FAIA

1994–1995 Chester A. Widom, FAIA

1993–1994 L. William Chapin, II, FAIA

1992–1993 Susan A. Maxman, FAIA

1991–1992 W. Cecil Steward, FAIA

1990–1991 Jim Lawler, FAIA

1989–1990 Sylvester Damianos, FAIA

1988–1989 Benjamin E. Brewer Jr., FAIA

1987–1988 Ted P. Pappas, FAIA

1986–1987 Donald J. Hackl, FAIA

1985–1986 John A. Busby Jr., FAIA

1984–1985 R. Bruce Patty, FAIA

1983–1984 George M. Notter, FAIA

1982–1983 Robert Broshar, FAIA

1981–1982 Robert Lawrence, FAIA

1980–1981 R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA

1979–1980 Charles E. Schwing, FAIA

1978–1979 Ehrman B. Mitchell Jr., FAIA

1977–1978 Elmer Botsai, FAIA

1976–1977 John McGinty, FAIA

1975–1976 Louis de Moll, FAIA

1974–1975 William Marshall Jr., FAIA

1973–1974 Archibald C. Rogers, FAIA

1972–1973 S. Scott Ferebee Jr., FAIA

1971–1972 Maximilian O. Urbahn, FAIA

1970–1971 Robert F. Hastings, FAIA

1969–1970 Rex Whitaker Allen, FAIA

1968–1969 George E. Kassabaum, FAIA

1967–1968 Robert L. Durham, FAIA

1966–1967 Charles M. Ness Jr., FAIA

1965–1966 Morris Ketchum Jr., FAIA

1964–1965 Arthur Gould Odell Jr., FAIA

1963–1964 J. Roy Carroll Jr., FAIA

1962–1963 Henry Lyman Wright, FAIA

1960–1962 Philip Will Jr., FAIA

1958–1960 John Noble Richards, FAIA

1956–1958 Leon Chatelain Jr., FAIA

1955–1956 George Bain Cummings, FAIA

1953–1955 Clair W. Ditchy, FAIA

1951–1953 A. Glenn Stanton, FAIA

1949–1951 Ralph Walker, FAIA

1947–1949 Douglas William Orr, FAIA

1945–1947 James R. Edmunds Jr., FAIA

1943–1945 Raymond J. Ashton, FAIA

1941–1943 R. H. Shreve, FAIA

1939–1941 Edwin Bergstrom, FAIA

1937–1939 Charles D. Maginnis, FAIA

1935–1937 Stephen F. Voorhees, FAIA

1932–1935 Ernest John Russell, FAIA

1930–1932 Robert D. Kohn, FAIA

1928–1930 C. Herrick Hammond, FAIA

1926–1928 Milton B. Medary, FAIA

1924–1926 Dan. Everett Waid, FAIA

1922–1924 William B. Faville, FAIA

1920–1922 Henry H. Kendall, FAIA

1918–1920 Thomas R. Kimball, FAIA

1915–1918 John Lawrence Mauran, FAIA

1913–1915 R. Clipston Sturgis, FAIA

1912–1913 Walter Cook, FAIA

1910–1911 Irving K. Pond, FAIA

1908–1909 Cass Gilbert, FAIA

1906–1907 Frank Miles Day, FAIA

1904–1905 William S. Eames, FAIA

1902–1903 Charles F. McKim, FAIA

1900–1901 Robert S. Peabody, FAIA

1899–1900 Henry Van Brunt, FAIA

1896–1898 George B. Post, FAIA

1894–1895 Daniel H. Burnham, FAIA

1892–1893 Edward H. Kendall, FAIA

1888–1891 Richard M. Hunt, FAIA

1877–1887 Thomas U. Walter, FAIA

1857–1876 Richard Upjohn, FAIA