PAST COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTS

The year indicates the commencement of presidential tenure.

1937 Hugh M. Gloster LeMoyne College Memphis, TN
1938 William Edward Farrison North Carolina College Durham, NC
1939 Cecil A. Blue Lincoln University Jefferson City, MO
1940 Bertram L. Woodruff Johnson C. Smith College Charlotte, NC
    West Virginia State College Institute, WV 
During WWII, CLA held a few regional meetings but no national meeting.
Three national meetings were cancelled.
1948 Hugh M. Gloster Hampton Institute Hampton, VA 
1950 Edward A. Jones  Morehouse College Atlanta, GA
1952 John W.  Parker Fayetteville State Teachers College  Fayetteville, NC 
1954  Crawford B. Lindsay Tennessee State University    Nashville, TN
1956 Billie Geter Thomas Spelman College  Atlanta, GA
1957  Blyden Jackson Southern University Baton Rouge, LA
1959 Charles A. Ray     North Carolina College Durham, NC
1961 Nick Aaron Ford Morgan State College Baltimore, MD
1963 Darwin T. Turner North Carolina A&T College Greensboro, NC
1965 Milton G. Hardiman Lincoln University Jefferson City, MO
1967 Charles Hugo Curl Norfolk State College Norfolk, VA
1968 Richard A. Long Atlanta University Atlanta, GA
1971 Ruth N. Horry North Carolina Central University Durham, NC
1973 Richard K. Barksdale University of Illinois Urbana, IL
1975 Herman Bostick Texas Southern University Houston, TX
1977 Thelma D. Curl Norfolk State University Norfolk, VA
1979 Wilbert J. Roger Temple University Philadelphia, PA
1982 Eleanor Q. Tignor LaGuardia Community College Long Island City, NY
1984 Anne Venture Young Morgan State University Baltimore, MD
1986 Marie H. Buncombe Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY
1988 Marcellus Brooks Fisk University Nashville, TN
1990 Thelma B. Thompson Norfolk State University Norfolk, VA
1992 James J. Davis Howard University Washington, DC
1994 Dolan Hubbard University of Georgia Athens, GA
1996 Thomas N. Hammond North Carolina Central College Durham, NC
1998 Emma Waters Dawson Florida A&M University Tallahassee, FL
2000 Dellita Martin-Ogunsola University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL
2002 Yakini B. Kemp Florida A&M University Tallahassee, FL
2004 Régine Latortue Brooklyn College/CUNY Brooklyn, NY
2006 Booker T. Anthony Fayetteville State University Fayetteville, NC
2008 Antonio D. Tillis Dartmouth College  Hanover, NH
2010 Warren J. Carson University of South Carolina, Upstate Spartanburg, SC
2012 Mario A. Chandler Oglethorpe University Atlanta, GA
2014 Dana A. Williams Howard University Washington, DC
2016 Clément A. Akassi Howard University Washington, DC
2018 Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper Spelman College Atlanta, GA
2020 Reginald A. Bess Claflin University (Retired) Orangeburg, SC