The past presidents of ETHA include distinguished scholars, independent researchers, and community leaders actively engaged in supporting an understanding of the history of East Texas.

* = deceased

2022-2023 Deborah Liles

2021-2022 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

2020-2021  Mary Jo O'Rear 

2019-2020 Mary Jo O'Rear

2018-2019 Gwendolyn McMillan Lawe

2017-2018 Heather Wooten

2016-2017 George Cooper

2015-2016 Kyle Wilkison

2014-2015 Mary Kelley Scheer

2013-2014 Gene Preuss

2012-2013 Bruce A. Glasrud

2011-2012 Cynthia J. Beeman

2010-2011 Tom Crum

2009-2010 Milton Jordan

2008-2009 Theodore Lawe*

2007-2008 Beverly Rowe

2006­2007 Dan K. Utley

2005-2006 R. G. Dean

2004-2005 Cary Wintz

2003-2004 Gail K Beil*

2002-2003 Ty Cashion

2001-2002 Kenneth Hendrickson

2000-2001 Linda S. Hudson*

1999-2000 Donald E. Willett

1998-1999 Patricia Kell*

1997-1998 James V. Reese*

1996-1997 Carol Riggs

1995-1996 Cecil Harper

1994-1995 Cissy Lale*

1993-1994 Ray Stephens*

1992-1993 Audrey Kariel

1991-1992 Bill O'Neal

1990-1991 Ron Hufford

1989-1990 Linda Cross

1988-1989 Gwin Morris*

1987-1988 Virginia Long*

1986-1987 Joe L. White

1985-1986 Mrs. Jewel Cates*

1984-1985 William J. Brophy*

1983-1984 Bob Bowman*

1982-1983 Irvin M. May*

1981-1982 Max S. Lale*

1980-1981 Marion Holt*

1979-1980 Frank H. Smyrl*

1978-1979 Ralph W. Steen*

1977-1978 Fred Tarpley*

1976-1977 Claude H. Hall*

1975-1976 Charles K. Phillips*

1974-1975 Maury Darst*

1973-1974 Robert S. Maxwell*

1972-1973 Ralph Goodwin*

1971-1972 Robert C. Cotner*

1970-1971 James L. Nichols*

1969-1970 C.M. Langford*

1968-1969 Terrell W. Connor

1967-1968 Ralph A. Wooster*

1966-1967 Allan Ashcraft*

1965-1966 Robert W. Glover*

1964-1965 Seth Walton*

1963-1964 F. I. Tucker*

1962-1963 F. Lee Lawrence*