Destinations International Former Chairs
We thank our former chairs for their service to the industry.
2023-24 Fred Dixon, New York City Tourism + Conventions
2022-23 Al Hutchinson, Visit Baltimore
2022 Butch Spyridon, Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp
2021-22 Gretchen Hall, CDME, Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau
2020-21 Butch Spyridon, Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp
2019-20 Craig Davis, CDME, VisitDallas
2018-19 William Pate, Atlanta CVB
2017-18 Tammy Blount-Canavan, FCDME, Monterey County, CA
2016-17 Gary Sherwin, CDME, Newport Beach & Company
2015-16 Robert Lander, Austin, TX
2014-15 Scott Beck, Salt Lake City, UT
2013-14 Martha Sheridan, CMP, Providence, RI
2012-13 Greg Edwards, Des Moines, IA
2011-12 Kevin Kane, Memphis, TN
2010-11 J. Stephen Perry, New Orleans, LA
2009-10 Dan Fenton, San Jose, CA
2008-09 Maura Allen Gast, FCDME, Irving, TX
2007-08 William Hanbury, Washington, DC
2006-07 William D. Talbert, III, CDME, Miami, FL
2005-06 Jon Hutchison, AM, Sydney, Australia
2004-05 Melvin Tennant, CAE, San Antonio, TX
2003-04 Spurgeon Richardson, Atlanta, GA
2002-03 Rick Antonson, Vancouver, BC Canada
2001-02 Bonnie Carlson, Bloomington,MN
2000-01 Charles Ahlers, Anaheim, CA
1999-00 Greg D. Ortale, Minneapolis, MN
1998-99 William C. Peeper, Orlando, FL
1997-98 David S. Radcliffe, Phoenix, AZ
1996-97 Michael J. Wilson, Cincinnati, OH
1995-96 Wm. Gary Grimmer, Melbourne, Australia
1994-95 Bobbie Patterson, Boise, ID
1993-94 Joe McGrath, Pittsburgh, PA
1992-93 Dale R. Finley, Cleveland, OH
1991-92 Edward J. McNeill, New Orleans, LA
1990-91 William F. McLaughlin, Detroit, MI
1989-90 Wayne C. Chappell, Baltimore, MD
1988-89 John A. Marks, San Francisco, CA
1987-88 William M. Duron, Toronto, ON
1986-87 Richard M. Kinney, Nashville, TN
1985-86 George D. Kirkland, San Fran., CA
1984-85 Robert E. Cumings, Boston, MA
1983-84 Norman P. Bermes, Baton Rouge, LA
1982-83 David L. Heinl, Portland, OR
1981-82 E. C. "Buzz" Sherry, Denver, CO
1980-81 William F. Snyder, Anaheim, CA
1979-80 Charles E. Rixse, Knoxville, TN
1978-79 Eugene C. Hosmer, Jr., Philadelphia, PA
1977-78 Robert J. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA
1976-77 Joseph Woodard, Los Angeles, CA
1975-76 John B. Marshall, Ft. Worth, TX
1974-75 James W, Hurst, Atlanta, GA
1973-74 Charles Gillett, New York, NY
1972-73 Leonard E. Rolston, Detroit, MI
1971-72 Chester A. Wilkins, Houston, TX
1970-71 John W. Besanceney, Pittsburgh, PA
1969-70 Morris B. Landau, St. Louis, MO
1968-69 V. A. McNeil, Portland, OR
1967-68 E. L. Pavel, Kansas City, MO
1966-67 Robert W. Bashor, Columbus, OH
1965-66 Gerald G. Sanderson, Chicago, IL
1964-65 Fred S. Daiger, Syracuse, NY
1963-64 Thomas F. Smith, Miami, FL
1962-63 Walter E. Crawford, Atlanta, GA
1961-62 Wayne Stetson, Atlantic City, NJ
1960-61 James A. Morrison, Philadelphia, PA
1959-60 Walter G. Swanson, San Francisco, CA
1958-59 Charles W. Shaffer, Pittsburgh, PA
1957-58 Arthur G. Frank, Columbus, OH
1956-57 Desmond Kelly, Miami, FL
1955-56 H. Ward Steward, Jr., Buffalo, NY
1954-55 Allen K. Pollock, Los Angeles, CA
1953-54 Frank Winchell, Jacksonville, FL
1952-53 Royal W. Ryan, New York, NY
1952 Arthur H. Brayton, Des Moines, IA
1951-52 Clarence A. Arata, Washington, DC
1950-51 Clarence N. Hockom, Denver, CO
1949-50 Joseph J. Cripe, Indianapolis, IN
1948-49 Adolph O. Frey, Pittsburgh, PA
1947-48 Edward C. Brennan, Cleveland, OH
1946-47 L. H. Denton, Baltimore, MD
1945-46 THR McNally, Toronto, ON
1944-45 Alvin J. Monroe, Milwaukee, WI
1943-44 Fred H. Rein, St. Louis, MO
1942-43 Julius L. Perlt, St. Paul, MN
1941-42 Henry Davis, Indianapolis, IN
1940-41 C. N. Nichols, New York, NY
1939-40 Sam Fowlkes, New Orleans, LA
1938-39 H.E. Boning, Jr., Kansas City, MO
1937-38 J. Allan Doyle, Rochester, NY
1936-37 Ralph Logsdon, Memphis, TN
1935-36 Ralph Logsdon, Memphis, TN
1934-35 Albert H. Skean, Atlantic City, NJ
1933-34 William Hennessy, Chicago, IL
1932-33 Adrian L. Potter, Springfield, IL
1931-32 Earl I. Ferguson, Milwaukee, WI
1930-31 M. J. Finn, Peoria, IL
1929-30 W.T. Buckley, Buffalo, NY
1928-29 W. M. Symon, Kansas, City, MO
1927-28 Harry C. Evans, Louisville, KY
1926-27 A. J. Kennedy, Cleveland, OH
1925-26 George E. Hamilton, Des Moines, IA
1924-25 Harry N. Burhans, Denver, CO
1923-24 John R. Young, New York, NY
1922-23 Thomas Quinlan, Cincinnati, OH
1921-22 Charles F. Hatfield, St. Louis, MO
1920-21 Fred Hauser, Atlanta, GA
1919-20 Henry Saunders, Buffalo, NY
1918-19 J. Lee Barrett, Detroit, MI
1917-18 Charles Dull, Peoria, IL
1916-17 Bob Brown, Louisville, KY
1915-16 Justin A. Runyon, St. Louis, MO