List of presidents of the Paleontological Society

• 1909 John Mason Clarke
• 1910 Charles Schuchert
• 1911 William Berryman Scott
• 1912 David White
• 1913 Charles D. Walcott
• 1914 Henry Fairfield Osborn
• 1915 Edward Oscar Ulrich
• 1916 Rudolf Ruedemann
• 1917 John Campbell Merriam
• 1918 Frank Hall Knowlton
• 1919 Robert Tracy Jackson
• 1920 Frederic Brewster Loomis
• 1921 Timothy W. Stanton
• 1922 William Diller Matthew
• 1923 T. Wayland Vaughan
• 1924 Edward Wilber Berry
• 1925 Richard Swann Lull
• 1926 Stuart Weller
• 1927 William Arthur Parks
• 1928 August F. Foerste
• 1929 Ermine Cowles Case
• 1930 William H. Twenhofel
• 1931 Edgar Roscoe Cumings
• 1932 Ray S. Bassler
• 1933 Edward Martin Kindle
• 1934 Percy Edward Raymond
• 1935 Charles Kephart Swartz
• 1936 Gilbert Dennison Harris
• 1937 Joseph Augustine Cushman
• 1938 Charles W. Gilmore
• 1939 Ralph W. Chaney
• 1940 Carl O. Dunbar
• 1941 Lloyd William Stephenson
• 1942 Elias Howard Sellards
• 1943 John B. Reeside, Jr.
• 1944 Benjamin Franklin Howell
• 1945 Chester Stock
• 1946 James Brookes Knight
• 1947 Raymond C. Moore
• 1948 Wendell P. Woodring
• 1949 Winifred Goldring
• 1950 Charles Edwin Weaver
• 1951 Harold Ernest Vokes
• 1952 Julia A. Gardner
• 1953 William Storrs Cole
• 1954 Harry Stephen Ladd
• 1955 Alfred Scott Warthin Jr.
• 1957 G. Arthur Cooper
• 1958 Arthur K. Miller
• 1959 Frank M. Swartz
• 1960 Kenneth Edward Caster
• 1961 Norman D. Newell
• 1962 John W. Wells
• 1963 S. W. Muller
• 1964 Ralph Willard Imlay
• 1965 Harry B. Whittington
• 1966 John Wyatt Durham
• 1967 Erwin Charles Stumm
• 1968 Alan Bosworth Shaw
• 1969 Digby J. McLaren
• 1970 William H. Easton
• 1971 Bernhard Kummel
• 1972 Curt Teichert
• 1973 Porter M. Kier
• 1974 James W. Valentine
• 1975 William A. Oliver, Jr.
• 1976 Ellis L. Yochelson
• 1977 David M. Raup
• 1978 Frank G. Stehli
• 1979 Richard E. Grant
• 1980 Warren O. Addicott
• 1981 Arthur J. Boucot
• 1982 Erle G. Kauffman
• 1983 A. R. Palmer
• 1984 Walter C. Sweet
• 1985 Helen Tappan Loeblich
• 1986 Norman F. Sohl
• 1987 Stephen J. Gould
• 1988 N. Gary Lane
• 1989 Brian F. Glenister
• 1990 John Pojeta, Jr.
• 1991 Thomas E. Bolton
• 1992 Roger L. Kaesler
• 1993 Rodney M. Feldmann
• 1994 Steven M. Stanley
• 1995 Craig Call Black
• 1996 J. John Sepkoski, Jr.
• 1997 Jere H. Lipps
• 1998 Karl W. Flessa
• 1999 Peter H. Crane
• 2001 Patricia H. Kelley
• 2003 William I. Ausich
• 2005 David J. Bottjer
• 2007 Derek E. G. Briggs
• 2009 Douglas H. Erwin
• 2011 Philip D. Gingerich
• 2013 Sandra J. Carlson
• 2015 Steven M. Holland
• 2017 Arnold I. Miller