SAME Past Presidents

The Society of American Military Engineers has had the advantage of distinguished leadership through its entire history. Presented below is the complete list of SAME Past Presidents, dating back to its founding year, 1920.


 

  • 2021 Rear Adm. Mark Handley, P.E., F.SAME, USN (Ret.), AECOM
  • 2020 Heather Wishart-Smith, P.E., PMP, LEED AP, F.SAME, F.ASCE, Jacobs
  • 2019 Lt. Col. Wendell "Buddy" Barnes, P.E., F.SAME (Dist.), USA (Ret.), Arcadis
  • 2018 Col. Marvin Fisher, LEED AP, F.SAME, USAF (Ret.), Farnsworth Group
  • 2017 Col. Sal M. Nodjomian, P.E., F.SAME, USAF (Ret.), Matrix Design Group
  • 2016 Capt. Michael L. Blount, P.E., LEED AP BD&C, Assoc. DBIA, F.SAME, USN (Ret.), AECOM
  • 2015 Jane Penny, P.E., F.SAME, AECOM
  • 2014 Col. John Mogge, Ph.D., RA, F.SAME, USAF (Ret.), CH2M
  • 2013 Rear Adm. Gary A. Engle, P.E., DBIA, F.SAME, USN (Ret.), URS
  • 2012 Anthony F. Leketa, P.E., F.SAME, SES (Ret.), Parsons
  • 2011 Rear Adm. Christopher J. Mossey, P.E., CEC, USN
  • 2010 Maj. Gen. Timothy A. Byers, F.SAME, USAF
  • 2009 LTG Robert L. Van Antwerp, P.E., F.SAME, USA
  • 2008 RADM Wayne Greg Shear, Jr., P.E., F.SAME, USN
  • 2007 Maj. Gen. Del Eulberg, P.E., F.SAME, USAF (Ret.)
  • 2006 Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, P.E., F.SAME, USA
  • 2005 Rear Adm. Michael K. Loose, P.E., F.SAME, USN
  • 2004 Maj. Gen. L. Dean Fox, USAF
  • 2003 Rear Adm. Michael R. Johnson, P.E., USN
  • 2002 Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers, P.E., USA
  • 2001 Mr. Roger J. Wozny, P.E.
  • 2000 Maj. Gen. Earnest O. Robbins II, USA
  • 1999 Rear Adm. Louis M. Smith, USN
  • 1998 Lt. Gen. Joe N. Ballard, USAF
  • 1997 Rear Adm. David J. Nash, USN
  • 1996 Maj. Gen. Eugene A. Lupia, USAF
  • 1995 Lt. Gen. Arthur E. Williams
  • 1994 Rear Adm. Jack E. Buffington
  • 1993 Maj. Gen. James E. McCarthy
  • 1992 Rear Adm. David E. Bottorff
  • 1991 Lt. Gen. Henry J. Hatch
  • 1990 Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Ahearn
  • 1989 Rear Adm. Benjamin F. Montoya
  • 1988 Maj. Gen. George E. Ellis
  • 1987 Lt. Gen. E.R. Heiberg III
  • 1986 Rear Adm. John Paul Jones, Jr.
  • 1985 Rear Adm. Kenneth G. Wiman
  • 1984 Maj. Gen. Clifton D. Wright, Jr.
  • 1983 Rear Adm. William M. Zobel
  • 1982 Lt. Gen. Joseph K. Bratton
  • 1981 Mr. Louis W. Riggs
  • 1980 Maj. Gen. William D. Gilbert
  • 1979 Rear Adm. Donald G. Iselin
  • 1978 Lt. Gen. John W. Morris
  • 1977 Mr. Seymour S. Greenfield
  • 1976 Maj. Gen. Robert C. Thompson
  • 1975 Rear Adm. A. R. Marschall
  • 1974 Lt. Gen. William C. Gribble, Jr.
  • 1973 Brig. Gen. H.O. Johnson, Jr.
  • 1972 Mr. Donald C. Bentley
  • 1971 Rear Adm. Walter M. Enger
  • 1970 Maj. Gen. Guy H. Goddard
  • 1969 Lt. Gen. Frederick J. Clarke
  • 1968 Rear Adm. Alexander C. Husband
 
  • 1967 Lt. Gen. William F. Cassidy
  • 1966 Rear Adm. John B. Oren
  • 1965 Rear Adm. Peter Corradi
  • 1964 Maj. Gen. Robert H. Curtin
  • 1963 Lt. Gen. W. K. Wilson, Jr.
  • 1962 Rear Adm. Eugene J. Peltier
  • 1961 Col. Walker L. Cisler
  • 1960 Maj. Gen. Augustus M. Minton
  • 1959 Vice Adm. W. Orme Hiltabidle
  • 1958 Maj. Gen. Emerson C. Itschner
  • 1957 Rear Adm. H. Arnold Karo
  • 1956 Maj. Gen. James B. Newman, Jr.
  • 1955 Rear Adm. Joseph F. Jelley
  • 1954 Maj. Lenox R. Lohr
  • 1953 Brig. Gen. Dwight F. Johns
  • 1952 Cmdr. John A. Volpe
  • 1951 Rear Adm. Leo Otis Colbert
  • 1950 Lt. Gen. R.A. Wheeler
  • 1949 Vice Adm. J.J. Manning
  • 1948 Maj. Gen. David McCoach, Jr.
  • 1947 Maj. Gen. Carl R. Gray, Jr.
  • 1946 Rear Adm. Henry Williams
  • 1945 Brig. Gen. W. H. Rose
  • 1944 Vice Adm. R. R. Waesche
  • 1943 Mr. Frederick Hall Fowler
  • 1942 Maj. Gen. Julian F. Schley
  • 1941 Rear Adm. Ben Moreell
  • 1940 Col. J. Monroe Johnson
  • 1939 Brig. Gen. G.B. Pillsbury
  • 1938 Maj. William Bowie
  • 1937 Rear Adm. R.E. Bakenhus
  • 1936 Brig. Gen. Charles W. Kutz
  • 1935 Col. Albert T. Perkins
  • 1934 Col. C. McD. Townsend
  • 1933 Col. E.A. Gibbs
  • 1932 Brig. Gen. Herbert Deakyne
  • 1931 Col. F. G. Jonah
  • 1930 Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick
  • 1929 Mr. S.M. Felton
  • 1928 Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, USA (U.S. Vice President at the time)
  • 1927 Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin
  • 1926 Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • 1925 Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor
  • 1924 Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach
  • 1923 Maj. Gen. W.C. Langfitt
  • 1922 Col. G.A. Youngberg
  • 1921 Maj. Gen. William M. Black
  • 1920 Maj. Gen. William M. Black