Wood 1928 Loring Woart Batten 1929 James E. Frame 1930 William Frederic Badè 1931 Burton Scott Easton 1932 J. M. Powis Smith 1933 James Moffatt 1934 Frederick C. Grant 1935 Elihu Grant 1936 Henry J. Cadbury 1937 George Dahl 1938 William Henry Paine Hatch 1939 W. F. Albright 1940 Chester C. McCown 1941 Julian Morgenstern 1942–1943 Kirsopp Lake 1944 Theophile James Meek 1945 Morton Scott Enslin 1946 Leroy Waterman 1947 Ernest Cadman Colwell 1948 John W. Flight 1949 Floyd V. Filson 1950 Robert H. Pfeiffer 1951 Erwin R. Goodenough 1952 Sheldon H. Blank 1953 S. Vernon McCasland 1954 Millar Burrows 1955 Amos N. Wilder 1956 J. Philip Hyatt 1957 Sherman E. Johnson 1958 William A. Irwin 1959 Robert M. Grant 1960 R. B. Y. Scott 1961 Samuel Sandmel 1962 Herbert G. May 1963 John Knox 1964 Fred V. Winnett 1965 Kenneth W. Clark 1966 John L. McKenzie 1967 Paul Schubert 1968 James Muilenburg 1969 Frank W. Beare 1970 Harry M. Orlinsky 1971 Bruce M. Metzger 1972 Walter J. Harrelson 1973 Norman Perrin 1974 Frank Moore Cross 1975 Robert W. Funk 1976 David Noel Freedman 1977 Raymond E. Brown 1978 James A. Sanders 1979 Joseph A. Fitzmyer 1980 Bernhard Anderson 1981 James M. Robinson 1982 Lou H. Silberman 1983 Krister Stendahl 1984 Roland E. Murphy 1985 Wayne A. Meeks 1986 James L. Mays 1987 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza 1988 Philip J. King 1989 Paul J. Achtemeier 1990 Walter Brueggemann 1991 Helmut Koester 1992 Norman K. Gottwald 1993 Victor P. Furnish 1994 Phyllis Trible 1995 Leander E. Keck 1996 Gene M. Tucker 1997 Hans Dieter Betz 1998 Patrick D. Miller 1999 D. Moody Smith 2000 Adele Berlin 2001 Harold W. Attridge 2002 John J. Collins 2003 Eldon Jay Epp 2004 David L. Petersen 2005 Carolyn Osiek 2006 Robert Kraft 2007 Katharine Doob Sakenfeld 2008 Jonathan Z. Smith 2009 David J. A. Clines 2010 Vincent L. Wimbush 2011 Carol Newsom 2012 John Dominic Crossan 2013 Carol Meyers 2014 Fernando Segovia 2015 Athalya Brenner-Idan 2016 Beverly Gaventa 2017 Michael V. Fox 2018 Brian K. Blount 2019 Gale A. Yee 2020 Adele Reinhartz Administrative officers Secretary 1880–1883 Frederic Gardiner 1883–1889 Hinckley G. Mitchell Recording Secretary 1889–1890 Charles Rufus Brown 1890–1915 William H. Cobb 1916–1933 Henry J. Cadbury 1934–1946 John W. Flight 1947–1950 Kenneth W. Clark 1951–1952 Louise Pettibone Smith 1953–1961 Charles F. Kraft 1961 (pro tempore) 1962–1963 Kendrick Grobel Executive Secretary 1964–1965 Kendrick Grobel 1965 Richard