CLLA PAST PRESIDENTS

Commercial Law League of America

CLLA PAST PRESIDENTS

Commercial Law League of America

Past Presidents

YEAR   PRESIDENT, CONVENTION LOCATION

2024    William H. Thrush, Chicago, IL
2023    Jim Kozelek, Chicago, IL
2022    Chris Young, Chicago, IL
2021    Timothy Wan, Virtual
2020    Timothy Wan, Virtual
2019    Lorna Walker, Orlando, FL
2018    Marc Bressler, Chicago, IL
2017    Peter Califano, Chicago, IL
2016    Robert S. Bernstein, Chicago, IL
2015    Barry Gammons, Las Vegas, NV
2014    Jeffrey N. Schatzman, Chicago, IL
2013    Ivan Jac Reich, Chicago, IL
2012    James “Beau” Hays, Chicago, IL
2011    Gary M. Weiner, Chicago, IL
2010    Ernest V. Thomas, III, Chicago, IL
2009    David R. Gamache, Chicago, IL
2008    Wanda Borges, Chicago, IL
2007    Sidney S. Friedman, Chicago, IL
2006    Jerry T. Myers, Asheville, NC
2005    Mary K. Whitmer, Toronto, Canada
2004    Paul I. Mendelson, Newport, RI
2003    John P. Wanderer, Isl. of Hawaii, HI
2002    William C. Sturm, Park City, UT
2001     Mark J. Sheriff, Hilton Head, Island, SC
2000    Daniel J. Goldberg, Monterey, CA
1999    Louis A. LeLaurin, III, Mont Tremblant, Canada
1998    Charles R. Johanson, III, Amelia Island, FL
1997    Murray S. Lubitz, Bolton Landing, NY
1996    Robert S. Bernstein, Whistler, Canada
1995    Elliott D. Levin, Dana Point, CA
1994    Frederick M. Luper, White Sulphur Springs, WV
1993    Robert I. Morris, Southampton, Bermuda
1992    Charles S. Bernstein, Sun Valley, ID
1991    Richard G. Baumann, Grand Traverse, MI
1990    Fred J. Smith, Jr., Hilton Head, SC
1989    John J. McLaughlin, Maui, HI
1988    Norman K. Gurstel, Palm Beach, FL
1987    Gary A. Plotkin, Asheville, NC
1986    Benson Zion, La Costa, Carlsbad, CA
1985    James A. Chatz, Hilton Head, SC
1984    Frank W. Koger, Montreal, Canada
1983    Joseph E. Friend, Colorado Springs, CO
1982    Arthur I. Ungerman, Palm Beach, FL
1981     Eugene B. Berman, Dorado Beach, PR
1980    James E. Carmel, Kauai, HI
1979     Joseph Braunstein, Sun Valley, ID
1978     Robert B. Chatz, Hot Springs, VA
1977     Murray B. DeGroot, Colorado Springs, CO
1976     Wilbur G. Silberman, Miami, FL
1975     Gerald W. Brownstein, Coronado, CA
1974     Stuart E. Hertzberg, Southampton, Bermuda
1973     Arthur M. Lewis, Sun Valley, ID
1972     Sanford A. Harris, Miami, FL
1971     Leonard M. Salter, White Sulphur Springs, WV
1970     Paul E. Berman, Kiamesha Lake, NY
1969     Bernard A. Riemer, Lake Tahoe, NV
1968     Francis H. Fairley, Grand Bahama Island
1967     Morris W. Macey, White Sulphur Springs, WV
1966     Bernard D. Craig, Mackinac Island, MI
1965     Lawrence B. Raff, Miami Beach, FL
1964     Edwin L. Brown, Jr., Kiamesha Lake, NY
1963     Arthur T. Wasserman, Coronado, CA
1962     William R. Eddleman, White Sulphur Springs, WV
1961     W. Alex Kennedy, Saranac, NY
1960    Benjamin H. Wicksel, French Lick, IN
1959     Leonard J. Brizdle, White Sulphur Springs, WV

YEAR   PRESIDENT, CONVENTION LOCATION

1958    George J. Balbach, Atlantic City, NJ
1957    Max Winograd, Houston, TX
1956    William M. Silverman, Bretton Woods, NH
1955    David W. Strauss, Coronado, CA
1954    Max B. Reid, Miami Beach, FL
1953    C.J. Wagner, Mackinac Island, MI
1952    Morris Weisman, French Lick, IN
1951    Louis J. Sagner, Saranac, NY
1950    John E. Baker, Jr., Mackinac Island, MI
1949    C. Glenn Garten, Roanoke, VA
1948    George Burns, Cleveland, OH
1947    Grover C. Thompson, Atlantic City, NJ
1946    Fred G. Stanley, Mackinac Island, MI
1945    Charles L. Cunningham, No Convention
1944    Tyree G. Newbill, No Convention
1943    Henry L. Fist, No Convention
1942    Abraham Lieberman, French Lick, IN
1941    Harold B. Doyle, New York, NY
1940    Carroll A. Teller, Chicago, IL
1939    John M. Niehaus, Jr., Washington, DC
1938    Col. Frederick A. Lind, Mackinac Island, MI
1937    W. Leslie Miller, Cleveland, OH
1936    G. Dexter Blount, Boston, MA
1935    Frank M. Ely, Washington, DC
1934    William B. Henderson, White Sulphur Springs, WV
1933    Sol Weiss, Mackinac Island, MI
1932    Frank W. Stonecipher, Washington, DC
1931    Robert H. Sykes, Toronto, Canada
1930    Col. Frederick A. Lind, Mackinac Island, MI
1929    Raymond G. Young, Montreal, Canada
1928    J. Purdon Wright, Mackinac Island, MI
1927    Maurice P. Davidson, Atlantic City, NJ
1926    Livingston E. Osborne, San Francisco, CA
1925    Fred Blair Townsend, Mackinac Island, MI
1924    Claude D. Ritter, Montreal, Canada
1923    Thad M. Talcott, Jr., West Baden, IN
1922    John B. Edwards, Atlantic City, NJ
1921    Edward F. Flynn, Minneapolis, MN
1920    George A. Bacon, Asbury Park, NJ
1919    William H.H. Piatt, Cincinnati, OH
1918    E.E. Donnelly, Chicago, IL
1917    E.G. McGilton, Saratoga Springs, NY
1916    Earle W. Evans, Atlantic City, NJ
1915    Edwin H. Brink, Pasadena, CA
1914    Edwin A. Krauthoff, Chicago, IL
1913    Frederic P. Vose, Cape May, NJ
1912    J. Howard Reber, Colorado Springs, COJ
1911    A. V. Cannon, Atlantic City, NJ
1910    Henry Deutsch, Narragansett Pier
1909    George M. Napier, Narragansett Pier
1908    Albert N. Eastman, Mackinac Island, MI
1907    H.G. W. Dinkelspiel, Detroit, MI
1906    George W. Carr, Asheville, NC
1905    S.T. Bledsoe, Niagara Falls, NY
1904    Frederick L. Siddons, West Baden, IN
1903    Albert H. Weed, Mackinac Island, MI
1902    E.F. Ferguson, Niagara Falls, NY
1901    W.W. Watts, Put-in-Bay, OH
1900    Charles R. Miller, Milwaukee, WI
1899    Ernest T. Florance, Asbury Park, NJ
1898    John D. Green, Put-in-Bay, OH
1897    Edmund M. Bartlett, Put-in-Bay, OH
1896    William C. Sprague, Omaha, NE
1895    William C. Sprague, Detroit, MI

Past Presidents

Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Virtual
Virtual
Orlando, FL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Las Vegas, NV
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Asheville, NC
Toronto, Canada
Newport, RI
Isl. of Hawaii, HI
Park City, UT
Hilton Head Island, SC
Monterey, CA
Mont Tremblant, Canada
Amelia Island, FL
Bolton Landing, NY
Whistler, Canada
Dana Point, CA
White Sulphur Springs, WV
Southampton, Bermuda
Sun Valley, ID
Grand Traverse, MI
Hilton Head, SC
Maui, HI
Palm Beach, FL
Asheville, NC
La Costa, Carlsbad, CA
Hilton Head, SC
Montreal, Canada
Colorado Springs, CO
Palm Beach, FL
Dorado Beach, PR
Kauai, HI
Sun Valley, ID
Hot Springs, VA
Colorado Springs, CO
Miami, FL
Coronado, CA
Southampton, Bermuda
Sun Valley, ID
Miami, FL
White Sulphur Springs, WV
Kiamesha Lake, NY
Lake Tahoe, NV
Grand Bahama Island
White Sulphur Springs, WV
Mackinac Island, MI
Miami Beach, FL
Kiamesha Lake, NY
Coronado, CA
White Sulphur Springs, WV
Saranac, NY
French Lick, IN
White Sulphur Springs, WV

Atlantic City, NJ
Houston, TX
Bretton Woods, NH
Coronado, CA
Miami Beach, FL
Mackinac Island, MI
French Lick, IN
Saranac, NY
Mackinac Island, MI
Roanoke, VA
Cleveland, OH
Atlantic City, NJ
Mackinac Island, MI
No Convention
No Convention
No Convention
French Lick, IN
New York, NY
Chicago, IL
Washington, DC
Mackinac Island, MI
Cleveland, OH
Boston, MA
Washington, DC
White Sulphur Springs, WV
Mackinac Island, MI
Washington, DC
Toronto, Canada
Mackinac Island, MI
Montreal, Canada
Mackinac Island, MI
Atlantic City, NJ
San Francisco, CA
Mackinac Island, MI
Montreal, Canada
West Baden, IN
Atlantic City, NJ
Minneapolis, MN
Asbury Park, NJ
Cincinnati, OH
Chicago, IL
Saratoga Springs, NY
Atlantic City, NJ
Pasadena, CA
Chicago, IL
Cape May, NJ
Colorado Springs, CO
Atlantic City, NJ
Narragansett Pier
Narragansett Pier
Mackinac Island, MI
Detroit, MI
Asheville, NC
Niagara Falls, NY
West Baden, IN
Mackinac Island, MI
Niagara Falls, NY
Put-in-Bay, OH
Milwaukee, WI
Asbury Park, NJ
Put-in-Bay, OH
Put-in-Bay, OH
Omaha, NE
Detroit, MI