Officers of the Board of Directors  (1922 to present)

Chairmen of the Board*

2004 – Present Lester R. Crown
2003 – 2004 Philip M. Condit
2001 – 2003 John W. Madigan
1997 – 2001 Duane L. Burnham
1994 – 1997 John H. Bryan
1991 – 1994 William L. Weiss
1988 – 1991 Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
1985 – 1988 John M. Richman
1982 – 1985 Edmund A. Stephan
1979 – 1982 Richard L. Thomas
1976 – 1979 John D. Gray
1974 – 1976 Augustin S. Hart, Jr.

Presidents

1973 – 1974 Hermon Dunlap Smith
1971 – 1973 Richard A. Hoefs
1968 – 1971 Alex R. Seith
1966 – 1968 Herbert V. Prochnow
1965 – 1966 Robert E. Wieczorowski
1962 – 1964 Edward D. McDougal, Jr.
1960 – 1962 Robert Wilcox
1958 – 1960 Richard H. Templeton
1956 – 1958 Charles A. Bane
1953 – 1956 Melvin Brorby
1950 – 1953 Daggett Harvey
1947 – 1950 Meyer Kestnbaum
1946 – 1947 Paul V. Harper
1944 – 1946 Walter T. Fisher
1942 – 1944 Frederick Woodward
1941 – 1942 Richard Bentley
1939 – 1941 Donald F. McPherson
1937 – 1939 Laird Bell
1935 – 1937 Adlai E. Stevenson
1933 – 1935 Walter Lichtenstein
1931 – 1933 Graham Aldis
1929 – 1931 George A. Richardson
1927 – 1929 Clay Judson
1925 – 1927 William C. Boyden
1924 – 1925 William B. Hale
1923 – 1924 Victor Elting
1922 – 1923 Jacob M. Dickinson

Presidents*

2001 – Present Marshall M. Bouton
1974 – 2001  John E. Rielly

Executive Directors

1971 – 1974 John E. Rielly
1969 – 1971 William Graham Cole
1960 – 1969 Edmund I. Eger
1953 – 1960 Carter Davidson
1952 – 1953 Porter McKeever
1943 – 1952 Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright
1931 – 1942 Clifton M. Utley

Executive Secretaries

1929 – 1931 Miss Alice Benning
1926 – 1929 Mrs. Isabella M. Stephans
1922 – 1925 Mrs. Polly Root Collier

*  In 1974, the Chicago Council governing structure was changed.  The title of Executive Director was changed to President and the title of President was changed to Chairman of the Board.