Our history
LSHA Past Presidents
Seventy-eight years of volunteer leadership, from Lou Kennedy in 1948 to today.
- Years
- 78
- Presidents
- 71
- First year
- 1948
- 2025-2026Heather B. Smestad
- 2024-2025Heather Barber
- 2023-2024Lezlee Vincent
- 2022-2023Hillary Cooper
- 2021-2022Dawn Stanley
- 2020-2021Jodie Fornadley
- 2019-2020Julie Andries
- 2018-2019Mimi Osborne
- 2017-2018Emily Rampmaier
- 2016-2017Ramona Bonnette
- 2015-2016Gloria Childress
- 2014-2015Leigh Anne Baker
- 2013-2014Karen Lynch
- 2012-2013Lisa Milliken
- 2011-2012Donna Fitzgerald Dejean
- 2010-2011Kimberly Stafford
- 2009-2010Nancye Roussel
- 2008-2009Heather Anderson
- 2007-2008Renae Colwick
- 2006-2007Sandra Hayes
- 2005-2006Christy Fontenot
- 2004-2005Kerri Phillips
- 2003-2004Theresa Rodgers
- 2002-2003Christy Fontenot
- 2001-2002Stephen Harris
- 2000-2001Janna Oetting
- 1999-2000Vicki Irwin
- 1998-1999Karen DeClouet
- 1997-1998Wendy Jumonville
- 1996-1997Guy Vekovius
- 1995-1996Linda Rose
- 1994-1995Aloma Lykes
- 1993-1994Denise Taylor
- 1992-1993David L. Irwin
- 1991-1992Diane Orlesh
- 1990-1991Paul Miller
- 1989-1990Mary Pannbacker
- 1988-1989Rosalee Lott
- 1987-1988Martin "Marty" Audiffred
- 1985-1986Brian D. Warner
- 1984-1985Joe A. Melcher
- 1983-1984Ila Monteleon
- 1982-1983Virginia H. Horton
- 1981-1982Virginia H. Horton
- 1980-1981Michael F. Seidmann
- 1979-1980Sherry A. LeBlanc
- 1978-1979Jimmy J. Guillory
- 1977-1978Samuel D. Morrison
- 1976-1977Nona Lee Barrn Blue
- 1975-1976Marquerite L. Annison
- 1974-1975Vincent M. Byers
- 1973-1974Frances P. Billeaud
- 1972-1973Jack Rosen
- 1971-1972Stuart I. Gilmore
- 1970-1971E. J. J. Kramer
- 1969-1970Nell R. Allen
- 1968-1969Clydie K. Mitchell
- 1965-1966Irma S. Taylor
- 1964-1965John E. Robinson
- 1963-1964Alice M. Sims
- 1962-1963Ellery Young
- 1961-1962M. Carolyn Jones
- 1960-1961Clifton Lawrence
- 1959-1960Bobby J. Hopper
- 1958-1959Waldo Wasson
- 1957-1958Clara Mae Frederic
- 1956-1957C. Milton Blue
- 1955-1956Irma Stockwell
- 1954-1955Cordelia C. Brong
- 1952-1954Jeanette K. Laguaite
- 1948-1952Lou Kennedy
About this list
Staff note: 71 entries as published. The source list has gaps for 1986-1987 and 1966-1968.