| Year | Conference Number | President |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 1 | William S. Levine |
| 1960 | 2 | George H. Morrison |
| 1961 | 3 | Saul Gordon |
| 1962 | 4 | Arnold Mowitz |
| 1963 | 5 | James F. Cosgrove |
| 1964 | 6 | Paul Lublin |
| 1965 | 7 | Charles W. Pifer |
| 1966 | 8 | David W. Robertson |
| 1967 | 9 | Edward G. Brame, Jr. |
| 1968 | 10 | Harold J. Pazdera |
| 1969 | 11 | George E. Heinze |
| 1970 | 12 | David A. Green |
| 1971 | 13 | Ivor L. Simmons |
| 1972 | 14 | Richard J. Knauer |
| 1973 | 15 | Louis M. Brancone |
| 1974 | – | Hal Ferrari |
| 1975 | 16 | Alexander N. Prezioso |
| 1976 | – | – |
| 1977 | 17 | Kenneth D. Fleischer |
| 1978 | – | = |
| 1979 | 18 | David L. Nash |
| 1980 | 19 | Melvin Goodman |
| 1981 | 20 | Arnold D. Lewis |
| 1982 | 21 | Hal Ferrari |
| 1983 | 22 | Concetta M. Paralusz |
| 1984 | 23 | J. P. Luongo |
| 1985 | 24 | Hal Ferrari |
| 1986 | 25 | Walton B. Caldwell |
| 1987 | 26 | S. David Klein |
| 1988 | 27 | Harvey S. Gold |
| 1989 | 28 | Richard Saferstein |
| 1990 | 29 | James McDivitt |
| 1991 | 30 | Stephen Scypinski |
| 1992 | 31 | Neil D. Jespersen |
| 1993 | 32 | Vincent Venturella |
| 1994 | 33 | Hercules Felder |
| 1995 | 34 | Karl Bratin |
| 1996 | 35 | Edward R. Davis |
| 1997 | 36 | Robert Femia |
| 1998 | 37 | Susan Kirby Friedman |
| 1999 | 38 | Julia Vasta-Russell |
| 2000 | 39 | Bruce McPherson |
| 2001 | 40 | Nicholas Snow |
| 2002 | 41 | Mary A. Kaiser |
| 2003 | 42 | Henrik Rasmussen |
| 2004 | 43 | Robert Ianniello |
| 2005 | 44 | Penelope Moore |
| 2006 | 45 | John L. Martin |
| 2007 | 46 | Robert Geise |
| 2008 | 47 | Kate Jackson Fletcher |
| 2009 | 48 | Donald O’Leary |
| 2010 | 49 | Julie Tinklenberg |
| 2011 | 50 | David A. Russell |
| 2012 | 51 | Cecil Dybowski |
| 2013 | 52 | Kim Huynh-Ba |
| 2014 | 53 | Anne-Françoise Aubry |
| 2015 | 54 | Oscar Liu |
| 2016 | 55 | Daryl Cobranchi |
| 2017 | 56 | Justin Pennington |
| 2018 | 57 | Mary Ellen McNally |
| 2019 | 58 | Thomas Brettell |
| 2020 | 59 | Judy Lin |
| 2021 | 60 | Sue Evans Norris |
| 2022 | 61 | Barbara Hillery |
| 2023 | 62 | Frank Romano |
| 2024 | 63 | Justin Pennington |
EAS was not held in the years noted by – in support of other conferences
EAS was established in New York City and held there until 1989.
EAS was held at the Garden State Exhibit Center, Somerset NJ from 1990 to 1999
EAS was held at the Atlantic City Convention Center in 2000 and 2001
EAS returned to the Garden State Exhibit Center from 2002 to 2016
EAS moved to the Crowne Plaza Conference Center, Plainsboro NJ in 2017
