Past Presidents
JLNO’s President serves a one-year term as the Chief Executive Officer of the organization. In addition to presiding over meetings of the Board, Joint Council, and General Membership, she provides responsible and effective leadership and guidance for the Board of Directors and staff. She leads the Board in confirming goals and objectives at the beginning of each year and in evaluating and recommending new goals at the end of each year. She works closely with the Treasurer and Finance Council to ensure that JLNO operates on a sound financial basis. JLNO’s President is the official spokesperson of the organization with the media unless she deems it necessary to appoint someone to serve in her place and is the only member of JLNO that can sign a legally binding contract for the organization. To ensure the organization is kept informed of other Junior League activities, she acts as a liaison for the Association of Junior Leagues International (AJLI), the Area V region of Leagues, and Presidents of Large Leagues (POLL) affinity group.
Name | Year |
Veva Penick Miller Wright | 1923-1925 |
Elinor Bright Richardson | 1925-1926 |
Gladys Eustis Reily | 1926-1928 |
Eleanor Luzenburg Pratt | 1928-1929 |
Perrine Dixon McCune | 1929-1930 |
Cleon Freret Baldwin | 1930-1931 |
Marietta Rocquet | 1931-1933 |
Elizabeth Parker Trabue Moring | 1933-1934 |
Frances Kittredge Burke | 1934-1935 |
Anna Lynne Dodds LeJeune | 1935-1936 |
Elizabeth Coke Moore Sebrell | 1936-1937 |
Althea Wuerpel Rainold | 1936-1937 |
Dorothy Graner Carroll | 1937-1939 |
Ruth Miller Hardie | 1939-1941 |
Jane Hayward French | 1941-1942 |
Nellie May Bartlett Kelleher | 1942-1943 |
Lynne Hecht Farwell | 1943-1944 |
Charlotte Felder Favrot | 1944-1946 |
Lucile Isacks Andrus | 1946-1947 |
Murray Pearce Hurley | 1947-1949 |
Nancy Reeves Dreux | 1949-1951 |
Marilyn Jenkins Salmon Sinclair | 1951-1952 |
Ethel Shingo Dameron Manard | 1952-1953 |
Jane Dart Maunsell | 1953-1955 |
Mary Ziegler Norris | 1955-1956 |
Beverly Hess Reese | 1956-1957 |
Charlotte Hillyer Dupuy | 1957-1958 |
Virginia Smart McIlhenny | 1958-1959 |
Margot Bennett Logan | 1959-1960 |
Ann Burdette Carroll | 1960-1961 |
Katherine Foster Duncan | 1961-1962 |
Bruce Witherspoon Rafferty | 1962-1963 |
Patricia Brown Waters | 1963-1964 |
Anne Kock Montgomery | 1964-1965 |
Caroline Trueman Sharp | 1965-1966 |
Suzanne Saussy Stewart | 1966-1967 |
Virginia McConnell Walker | 1967-1968 |
Elizabeth Nicholson Fischer | 1968-1969 |
Marion Andrus McCollam | 1969-1970 |
Cynthia Rainold Hammond | 1970-1971 |
Kathryn Eshleman Rapier | 1971-1972 |
Florance “Bonnie” Scott Conway | 1972-1973 |
Diana Monroe Lewis | 1973-1974 |
Jackeen Kelleher Churchill | 1974-1975 |
Dorothy Storey Charbonnet | 1975-1976 |
Anne Maught Butts | 1976-1977 |
Anne McDonald Milling | 1977-1978 |
Ruth Jones Frierson | 1978-1979 |
Elizabeth Shaw Nalty | 1979-1980 |
Georgia Monsted Simmons | 1980-1981 |
Janet White Bean | 1981-1982 |
Mary Frances Mears Gleason | 1982-1983 |
Frances Gable Villere | 1983-1984 |
Ella Montgomery Flower | 1984-1985 |
Ann Mahorner | 1985-1986 |
Diana Rowley Jones | 1986-1987 |
Wendy Walk Michell | 1987-1988 |
Barbara Gott Bush | 1988-1989 |
Alice Marquez Wright | 1989-1990 |
Lynn Fitzpatrick Mann | 1990-1991 |
Kathy Bannon Eastman | 1991-1992 |
Betsie Meric Gambel | 1992-1993 |
Ashley Lykes Geary | 1993-1994 |
Wendy Connaughton Dalovisio | 1994-1995 |
Ninette Charbonnet Eastman | 1995-1996 |
Julie Livaudais George | 1996-1997 |
Natalie King Lanaux | 1997-1998 |
Sarah Foster Suthon | 1998-1999 |
Melanee Gaudin Usdin | 1999-2000 |
Katherine Andry Crosby | 2000-2001 |
Elizabeth Boh | 2001-2002 |
Charlene Hill Walk | 2002-2003 |
Ellen Chapin Coleman | 2003-2004 |
Wendy McCarthy Beron | 2004-2005 |
Elizabeth Hadden Creel | 2005-2006 |
Laura Fox Politz | 2006-2007 |
Gwathmey Finlay Gomila | 2007-2008 |
Leah Nunn Engelhardt | 2008-2009 |
Erin Bell Luetkemeier | 2009-2010 |
Jennifer Surgala Couvillon | 2010-2011 |
Blanche “Dee” McCloskey | 2011-2012 |
Brandy Baechle Whisnant | 2012-2013 |
Jeanne Harang Boughton | 2013-2014 |
Katherine Kleinpeter Raymond | 2014-2015 |
Shannon McCloskey Able | 2015-2016 |
Maria Pardo Huete | 2016-2017 |
Kristen Cocke Koppel | 2017-2018 |
Alice Glenn | 2018-2019 |
Christine Vinson | 2019-2020 |
Kristin Van Hook Moore | 2020-2021 |
Shannon Brice | 2021-2022 |