The following table lists the past presidents of NCLA from 1934 up to the present.
| 2025 | Melanie Davidoff |
| 2024 | Syntychia Kendrick-Samuel |
| 2023 | Stacey Mencher |
| 2022 | Kaysha Watson-Phillips |
| 2021 | Emily Trezza |
| 2020 | James Hutter |
| 2019 | Valerie Acklin |
| 2018 | Laura Guinta |
| 2017 | Nancy Evans |
| 2016 | Trina Reed |
| 2015 | Courtney Greenblatt |
| 2014 | Min Liu |
| 2013 | Elaine Cummings-Young |
| 2012 | Natalie Korsavidis |
| 2011 | Ken Bellafiore |
| 2010 | Thomas Bazzicalupo |
| 2009 | Chris Marra |
| 2008 | Carolyn Voegler |
| 2007 | Debbie Podolski |
| 2006 | Frank McKenna |
| 2005 | Thomas Bazzicalupo |
| 2004 | Chris Penna |
| 2003 | Ken Bellafiore |
| 2002 | Tracey Simon |
| 2001 | Lisa Paulo |
| 2000 | Carol Probeyahn |
| 1999 | Steve Bregman |
| 1998 | Florence Scarinci |
| 1997 | Thomas Gabia |
| 1996 | Harriet Edwards |
| 1995 | Dina McNeece Chrils |
| 1994 | Herb Biblo |
| 1993 | Mamie Eng |
| 1992 | Mary Donor |
| 1991 | Adah Silberg |
| 1990 | Rochelle Sager |
| 1989 | Barbara Hopkins |
| 1988 | Kenneth S. Weil |
| 1987 | Elsie Lieber |
| 1986 | Donna L. Rigali |
| 1985 | Gerald Nichols |
| 1984 | Arthur L Friedman |
| 1983 | Rhoda Friedland |
| 1982 | Susan Weiss (Stollwerk) |
| 1981 | Adrienne Fluckiger |
| 1980 | Irene Duszkiewicz |
| 1979 | Andrew V. Ippolito |
| 1978 | J. Peter Johnson |
| 1977 | Marshall Botwinick |
| 1976 | Sarah Fenner |
| 1975 | Grace Brown |
| 1974 | Catherine Romanelli |
| 1973 | Norman Seldes |
| 1971-1972 | P.W. Martin |
| 1969-1970 | O.G. Kaufhold |
| 1967-1968 | Joseph Halloran |
| 1967 | Edwin W. Terry |
| 1965-1966 | Kenneth S. Barnes |
| 1964-1965 | Edward F. Fenner |
| 1964 | Roger Jones |
| 1962-1964 | Edward de Sciora |
| 1961-1962 | William K. Harrison |
| 1959-1961 | Joseph Eisner |
| 1957-1959 | Thomas Dutelle |
| 1956-1957 | Gilmore Aarestad |
| 1954-1956 | Elizabeth W. Thomson |
| 1952-1954 | D. Nora Gallagher |
| 1950-1952 | Frances Hale |
| 1948-1950 | Lillian Van Mater |
| 1944-1946 | Helen MacDonough |
| 1944 | Lena Ruppert |
| 1941-1943 | Elizabeth F. Kelly |
| 1939-1941 | Edith H. John |
| 1936-1938 | Adelaide Faron |
| 1934-1936 | Hans S. Schaltenbrand |
