NAACP - Roy Wilkins

NAACP
Executive Secretaries, Executive Directors and Presidents & CEOs --1909 – Present

Frances Blascoer
Secretary
February 1910 – March 7, 1911

Mary White Ovington
Secretary
May 16, 1911 – June 4, 1912

Mary Childs Nerney
Secretary
June 1, 1912 – January 3, 1916

Mary White Ovington
Acting Secretary
January 10, 1916 – February 15, 1916

Royal Freeman Nash
Secretary
February 15, 1916 – September 1, 1917

James Weldon Johnson
Acting Secretary
May 14, 1917 – January 1, 1918

John R. Shillady
Secretary
January 1, 1918 – May 10, 1920

James Weldon Johnson
Acting Secretary
September 13, 2920 – December 13, 1920

Secretary
December 13, 1920 – January, 1931

Walter White
Secretary
January, 1931 – April, 1955

Roy Wilkins
Executive Director
April 1955 – August 1977

Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks
Executive Director & CEO
August 1, 1977 – May 1993

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
Executive Director & CEO
May 1993 – August 1994

Earl T. Shinhoster
Acting Executive Director & CEO
September 1994 – January 1996

Kweisi Mfume
President & CEO
February 1996 – December 2004

Dennis C. Hayes
Interim President & CEO
January 2005 – July 2005

Bruce S. Gordon
President & CEO
August 2005 – March 2007

Dennis C. Hayes
Interim President & CEO
March 2007 – September 2008

Benjamin T. Jealous
President & CEO
September 2008 - Present