History
In July 1953, a group of Texas psychologists felt the time had come for a new regional association of psychologists and mailed a letter stating their interest to all American Psychological Association members living in New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. This effort culminated the following December in San Antonio as the Southwestern Psychological Association met for the first time. Although Arizona and New Mexico today stand with the original states to form the Association’s core, SWPA’s membership continues to reach across international boundaries and includes members in states from Washington to Florida, California to Connecticut. From its founding to the present, SWPA works to promote and strengthen psychology’s scientific, professional and educational facets. SWPA celebrated its Fiftieth Anniversary meeting in April of 2004 in San Antonio at the Sheraton Gunter Hotel, site of its original meeting.
Past Presidents of the Southwestern Psychological Association
Thomas Faulkenberry, Ph.D.
2023
Darshon Reed, Ph.D.
2022
Drew Curtis, PhD
2021
Perry Fuchs, PhD
2020
Cindy Turk, PhD
2019
W. Trey Hill, PhD
2018
Kelly Henry, PhD
2017
Chris Hart, PhD
2016
Jennifer Bonds-Raacke, PhD
2015
Aneeq Ahmad, PhD
2014
Tracy Henley, PhD
2013
Shelia Kennison, PhD
2012
Arnold D. Froese, PhD
2011
Scott A. Bailey, PhD
2010
Lauren Scharff, PhD
2009
Linda S. Hynan, PhD
2008
Charles A. Burdsal, PhD
2007
Paul R. Nail, PhD
2006
Edward P. Kardas, PhD
2005
Kenneth A. Weaver, PhD
2004
Mary Brazier, PhD
2003
John M. Davis, PhD
2002
Randall Wight, PhD
2001
Theresa A. Wozencraft, PhD
2000
Jesse E. Purdy, PhD
1999
Vicki Green, PhD
1998
Robert T. Hogan, PhD
1997
Roger E. Kirk, PhD
1996
Michael R. Best, PhD
1995
Dennis C. Cogan, PhD
1994
Gordon K. Hodge, PhD
1993
Robert L. Montgomery, PhD
1992
Randolph A. Smith, PhD
1991
Francis T. Durso, PhD
1990
Clyde Hendrick, PhD
1989
Stephen F. Davis, PhD
1988
Janet R. Matthews, PhD
1987
Warren H. Jones, PhD
1986
Douglas P. Ferraro, PhD
1985
Larry Christenson, PhD
1984
Toni Falbo, PhD
1983
Roger L Mellgren, PhD
1982
June Gallessich, PhD
1981
H. Wayne Ludvigson, PhD
1980
Alvin G. Burstein, PhD
1979
Henry C. Ellis, PhD
1978
C. Eugene Walker, PhD
1977
Harry J. Parker, PhD
1976
Logan Wright, PhD
1975
Vladimir Pishkin, PhD
1974
Frank A. Logan, PhD
1973
James Leslie McCary, PhD
1972
Janet T. Spence, PhD
1971
Oscar A. Parsons, PhD
1970
Daniel E. Sheer, PhD
1969
Jackson B. Reid, PhD
1968
Malcolm D. Arnoult, PhD
1967
Benjamin Fruchter, PhD
1966
Ira Iscoe, PhD
1965
Irwin A. Berg, PhD
1964
Saul B. Sells, PhD
1963
John P. Anderson, PhD
1962
Fillmore Sanford, PhD
1961
Ruth M. Hubbard, PhD
1960
Wayne H. Holtzman, PhD
1959
Robert R. Blake, PhD
1958
Gordon V. Anderson, PhD
1957
Aaron Q. Sartain, PhD
1956
Gardner Murphy, PhD
1954
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