Presidents of NC Nurses Association
NCNA
Dates:
1902-2023
Past presidents of the North Carolina Nurses Association:
| Name | Tenure |
| Mary Lewis Wyche | 1902-1907 |
| Constance Pfohl | 1908-1913 |
| Cleone Hobbs | 1914-1916 |
| Eugenia Henderson | 1917-1919 |
| Blanche Stafford | 1920 |
| Dorothy Hayden Conyers | 1921-1922 |
| Pearl Weaver | 1923 |
| Blanche Stafford | 1924-1925 |
| Columbia Munds | 1926-1927 |
| Mary P. Laxton | 1928-1929 |
| E.A. Kelly | 1930-1931 |
| Hettie Reinhardt | 1932-1934 |
| Ruth Council | 1935-1937 |
| E. Irby Long | 1937-1939 |
| Marie B. Noel | 1939-1941 |
| Katherine E. Rehder | 1941-1943 |
| Flora Wakefield | 1943-1945 |
| Hazel C. Williams | 1945-1947 |
| Edna L. Heinzerling | 1947-1949 |
| Louise P. East | 1949-1951 |
| Elaine Marshburn | 1951-1953 |
| Josephine Kerr | 1953-1955 |
| Edith P. Brocker | 1955-1957 |
| Margaret Dolan | 1957-1959 |
| Martha Adams | 1959-1961 |
| Atha H. Raulston | 1961-1963 |
| Mary E. Copeland | 1963-1965 |
| Ruth Peters | 1965-1967 |
| Eloise R. Lewis | 1967-1969 |
| Mary Edith Rogers | 1969-1971 |
| Virginia Stone | 1971-1973 |
| Rose George | 1973-1975 |
| Rebecca Taylor | 1975-1977 |
| Gene Tranbarger (first male President) | 1977-1979 |
| Ernestine Small (first African American President) | 1979-1981 |
| Barbara Jo Foley | 1981-1983 |
| Judy Seamon | 1983-1985 |
| Hettie Lou Garland | 1985-1987 |
| Jo Franklin | 1987-1989 |
| Gale Adcock | 1989-1991 |
| Sheila Cromer | 1991-1993 |
| Sandra Wilder | 1993-1995 |
| Gerry Roberts | 1995-1997 |
| Dona Caine-Francis | 1998-1999 |
| Gwen Waddell-Schultz | 2000-2001 |
| Martha Barham | 2002-2003 |
| Susan Pierce | 2004-2005 |
| Dennis Sherrod | 2006-2007 |
| 2008-2009 | |
| Ernest Grant | 2010-2011 |
| 2011-2012 | |
| Megan Williams | 2013-2015 |
| 2015-2017 | |
| 2018-2020 | |
| Meka Douthit | 2021-2023 |
Additional Resources
See also...
- First Four Presidents of the NCNA. Pollitt P. (2021). Let’s Start at the Very Beginning. Tar Heel Nurse. October 2021:20. Publisher version of record available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edo&AN=153440082&site=edslive&scope=site
- The Second Generation of NCNA Leaders. Pollitt, P. (2022). The Second Generation of NCNA Leaders. Tar Heel Nurse, 84(4), p. 12. NC Docks permission to re-print granted by author. Publisher version of record available at: https://ncnurses.org/
Compiled by:
Phoebe Pollitt