Southern SNA Past Presidents
Listed below are 116 industry members that have served as SNA President over the past 117 years (1899 - 2018). Their tenure on the SNA Board represents six years of service to the association and the industry with exception to N.W. Hale (1899 and 1900), Tom Dodd, Sr. (1942 and 1943), M.L. Harkey (1944 and 1945), and Bill Boyd (2006, 2012 and 2013). We would like to thank all of those whom have served for their leadership and wisdom that has helped this association survive for more than 100 years.
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| Year |
President |
State |
Meeting Place |
| 2019 | Joseph Napoli | Georgia | Baltimore, MD |
| 2018 | Norman Cole, III | West Virginia | Baltimore, MD |
| 2017 | Dusty Knight | Alabama | Athens, GA |
| 2016 | Michael Hobbs | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 2015 | Richard May | Florida | Atlanta, GA |
| 2014 | Jeffry O. Howell | Mississippi | Atlanta, GA |
| 2013 | William J. "Bill" Boyd | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 2012 | William J. "Bill" Boyd | Tennessee | Mobile, AL |
| 2011 | Randy Bracy | Louisiana | Mobile, AL |
| 2010 | George Hackney | Georgia | Mobile, AL |
| 2009 | Eelco Tinga | North Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 2008 | Bill Turk | Alabama | Atlanta, GA |
| 2007 | D.E. "Skeetter" McCorkle | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 2006 | William J. Boyd | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 2005 | Wayne K. Sawyer | Virginia | Atlanta, GA |
| 2004 | Daniel B. Batson | Mississippi | Atlanta, GA |
| 2003 | James A. "J." Guy | South Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 2002 | Frank M. Collier | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 2001 | Wilfred L. "Red" Robbins | North Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 2000 | Walter M. Imahara | Louisiana | Atlanta, GA |
| 1999 | William D. "Bill" Reese | Florida | Atlanta, GA |
| 1998 | James M. Zangger | Oklahoma | Atlanta, GA |
| 1997 | John C. Watkins | Virginia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1996 | William H. "Buzz" Barton | Alabama | Atlanta, GA |
| 1995 | Arthur A. "Buck" Jones | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1994 | Don O. Shadow | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 1993 | Larry D. Edwards | North Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1992 | J. Fred Fisher, II | Mississippi | Atlanta, GA |
| 1991 | Robert A. Jenkins | South Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1990 | Louis Hillenmeyer, III | Kentucky | Atlanta, GA |
| 1989 | C. Fletcher Flemer, III | Virginia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1988 | Frank B. Akin | Louisiana | Atlanta, GA |
| 1987 | Fount H. May, Sr. | Florida | Atlanta, GA |
| 1986 | Frank H. Colvett | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 1985 | Ronald W. Copeland | North Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1984 | David Byers | Alabama | Atlanta, GA |
| 1983 | Richard J. Hackney | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1982 | Clinton J. Korfhage | Kentucky | Atlanta, GA |
| 1981 | Norman H. Cole, Jr. | West Virginia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1980 | Dennis V. McCloskey | Louisiana | Atlanta, GA |
| 1979 | William J. Park | South Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1978 | A.D. Cartwright, Jr. | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 1977 | David E. Laird, Jr. | Virginia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1976 | Billy Martinson | Mississippi | Atlanta, GA |
| 1975 | R.E. "Ed" Brown | Florida | Atlanta, GA |
| 1974 | Richard L. Ammon | Kentucky | Atlanta, GA |
| 1973 | Warren Redd | North Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1972 | Bill Barton | Alabama | Atlanta, GA |
| 1971 | Cecil F. Hill | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1970 | Geddes Douglas | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 1969 | Arthur J. Lancaster, Jr. | Virginia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1968 | Sidney B. Meadows | Alabama | Atlanta, GA |
| 1967 | Dwight Cain | South Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1966 | Robert H. Hillenmeyer | Kentucky | New Orleans, LA |
| 1965 | David E. Laird | Virginia | Norfolk, VA |
| 1964 | Ray Bass | Mississippi | Charlotte, NC |
| 1963 | James M. Patterson | Georgia | Mobile, AL |
| 1962 | Robert Boyd | Tennessee | Lexington, KY |
| 1961 | George M. Coulter | North Carolina | Memphis, TN |
| 1960 | Edwin G. Fraser | Florida | Atlanta, GA |
| 1959 | Hubert Nicholson | Tennessee | Jacksonville, FL |
| 1958 | Dan Reynolds | North Carolina | Richmond, VA |
| 1957 | Jack Aichele | South Carolina | Charleston, SC |
| 1956 | George Sawada | Alabama | Nashville, TN |
| 1955 | Hoskins Shadow | Tennessee | Asheville, NC |
| 1954 | Arthur N. Watson | Florida | Jacksonville, FL |
| 1953 | James A. Stubbs | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1952 | A.S. Gresham, Jr. | Virginia | Mobile, AL |
| 1951 | C. Elwood Stephens | Florida | Richmond, VA |
| 1950 | W.C. Daniels | North Carolina | Charleston, SC |
| 1949 | Charles N. Morse | Tennessee | Chattanooga, TN |
| 1948 | Donald Hastings, Sr. | Georgia | Huntsville, AL |
| 1947 | Henry Homer Chase | Alabama | Atlanta, GA |
| 1946 | Henry N. Boyd | Tennessee | Greensboro, NC |
| 1945 | M.L. Harkey | North Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1944 | M.L. Harkey | North Carolina | Convention Suspended |
| 1943 | Tom Dodd, Sr. | Alabama | Atlanta, GA |
| 1942 | Tom Dodd, Sr. | Alabama | Convention Suspended |
| 1941 | W.W. Hillenmeyer, Jr. | Kentucky | Lexington, KY |
| 1940 | J.B. Wight | Georgia | Charlotte, NC |
| 1939 | J.Y. Killian | North Carolina | Huntsville, AL |
| 1938 | C.M. Smith | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1937 | Richard H. Jones | Tennessee | Nashville, TN |
| 1936 | E.E. Chattin | Tennessee | Miami, FL |
| 1935 | W.L. Monroe | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1934 | L.M. Jones | Virginia | Asheville, NC |
| 1933 | Owen G. Wood | Virginia | Jacksonville, Beach, FL |
| 1932 | C.R. Stephens | Florida | Chattanooga, TN |
| 1931 | J.S. Wight | Georgia | Huntsville, AL |
| 1930 | S.R. Howell | Tennessee | Norfolk, VA |
| 1929 | Norman Nicholson | Tennessee | Birmingham, AL |
| 1928 | C.T. Smith | Georgia | Memphis, TN |
| 1927 | John Fraser, Jr. | Alabama | Jacksonville, FL |
| 1926 | Lee McClain | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 1925 | J.G. Bailie | Georgia | Knoxville, TN |
| 1924 | W.W. Hillenmeyer | Kentucky | Greensboro, NC |
| 1923 | O. Joe Howard | North Carolina | Atlanta, GA |
| 1922 | C.A. Simpson | Florida | Lexington, KY |
| 1921 | Paul C. Lindley | North Carolina | Chattanooga, TN |
| 1920 | S.W. Crowell | Mississippi | Charleston, SC |
| 1919 | H.C. Caldwell | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1918 | O.W. Fraser | Alabama | Birmingham, AL |
| 1917 | Harry Nicholson | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 1916 | A.I. Smith | Tennessee | Atlanta, GA |
| 1915 | R.C. Simpson | Florida | Hendersonville, NC |
| 1914 | H.M. Templeton, Sr. | Tennessee | Signal Mountain, TN |
| 1913 | O. Joe Howard | North Carolina | Monteagle, TN |
| 1912 | E.W. Chattin | Tennessee | Augusta, GA |
| 1911 | W.A. Easterly | Tennessee | Greensboro, NC |
| 1910 | R.C. Berckmans | Georgia | Knoxville, TN |
| 1909 | H.B. Chase | Alabama | Huntsville, AL |
| 1908 | C.T. Smith | Georgia | Atlanta, GA |
| 1907 | J.A. Young | North Carolina | Richmond, VA |
| 1906 | Orlando Harrison | Maryland | Lookout Mountain, TN |
| 1905 | C.T. Smith | Georgia | Norfolk, VA |
| 1904 | J.C. Hale | Tennessee | Asheville, NC |
| 1903 | G.H. Miller | Georgia | Winchester, TN |
| 1902 | J. Van Lindley | North Carolina | Charleston, SC |
| 1901 | W.T. Hood | Virginia | Asheville, TN |
| 1900 | N.W. Hale | Tennessee | Lithia Springs, GA |
| 1899 | N.W. Hale | Tennessee | Chattanooga, TN |
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