National College Presidents

Below is a full list of National Presidents of the Australian College of Educators, since its inception in 1959. Our first National President, Sir James Darling, served two terms as National President. Since then, National Presidents have been able to serve only for one two year term.

• 1959 – 1963 Sir James Ralph Darling (Victoria)
• 1963 – 1965 Sir Harold Stanley Wyndham (New South Wales)
• 1965 – 1967 Charles Edmund Moorhouse (Victoria)
• 1967 – 1969 George William Bassett (Queensland)
• 1969 – 1971 William Cropley Radford (Victoria)
• 1971 – 1973 William Nicolle Oats (Tasmania)
• 1973 – 1975 Albert Walter Jones (South Australia)
• 1975 – 1977 Richard St. Clair Johnson (ACT)
• 1977 – 1979 Haydn Stanley Williams (Western Australia)
• 1979 – 1981 Ronald Kentish Browne (ACT)
• 1981 – 1983 Eva Gisella Eden (Victoria)
• 1983 – 1985 William George Walker (Victoria)
• 1985 – 1987 Peter Bernard Botsman (Queensland)
• 1987 – 1989 Shirley Kaye Randall (ACT)
• 1989 – 1991 Phillip William Hughes (Tasmania)
• 1991 – 1993 Jillian Maling (New South Wales)
• 1993 – 1995 Jonathan Anderson (South Australia)
• 1995 – 1997 Barry McGaw (Victoria)
• 1997 – 1999 Susan Pascoe (Victoria)
• 1999 – 2001 Kenneth Boston (New South Wales)
• 2001 – 2003 Elida Brereton (Victoria)
• 2003 – 2005 Geoffrey Masters (Victoria)
• 2005 – 2007 Neil Dempster (Queensland)
• 2007 – 2009 Denise Bradley (South Australia)