| Term | Name | Institution |
| 2007- | Luz Bay | Measured Progress |
| 2000-06 | Lori McLeod | Research Triangle Institute |
| 1997-00 | Michael Nering | American College Testing |
| 1994-97 | Ralph DeAyala | University of Maryland |
| 1991-94 | Richard Luecht | American College Testing |
| 1981-91 | Cynthia H. Null | College of William and Mary |
| 1977-80 | Howard Wainer | Johns Hopkins University/Bureau of Social Research |
| 1973-76 | Howard Wainer | University of Chicago |
| 1969-73 | Roger Pennell | Educational Testing Service |
| 1960-69 | John W. French | Educational Testing Service |
| 1956-60 | William B. Schrader | Educational Testing Service |
| 1954-56 | David R. Saunders | Educational Testing Service |
| 1953-54 | John W. French | Educational Testing Service |
| 1952-53 | Erwin K. Taylor | Western Reserve University |
| 1949-52 | Robert L. Thorndike | |
| 1947-49 | Edward E. Cureton | Adjutant General’s Office |
| 1940-47 | Irving Lorge | Columbia University |
| 1936-39 | Albert K. Kurtz | |
| 1935-36 | Jack W. Dunlap | Fordham University |