Past Department Presidents – South Dakota American Legion Auxiliary

Present–1974

Years	Department President
2025-26	Susan "Susie" Learing
2024-25	Anna Mae Warnier
2023-24	Patsy Madsen
2022-23	Joyce Smith
2021-22	Mary Jo Stier
2019-21	Teresa Huntimer
2018-19	Jeannine Loesch
2017-18	Elvira Moen
2016-17	Melanie Martens
2015-16	Jane Benzel
2014-15	Carol Edwards
2013-14	Janet Hurlbert
2012-13	Barb Vetter
2011-12	Regina Whipple
2010-11	Sue Christensen
2009-10	Joan Spears
2008-09	Sherry Woltjer
2007-08	Lila Speckels
2006-07	Doris Ann Werlinger
2005-06	Marsha Boyd
2004-05	Laura "Susie" Clyde
2003-04	Irene C. Sears *
2002-03	Marcella Ann Root
2001-02	Shirley Baker
2000-01	Marilyn Hobbs *
1999-00	Sereta Douthit
1998-99	Kathryn Thompson
1997-98	Elda Hoffer
1996-97	Kathryn Young
1995-96	Kim Anderson
1994-95	Mary Ann Guthmiller
1993-94	Margaret Demery *
1992-93	LuElla Lehr *
1991-92	Darlene Zweep
1990-91	Marjorie Kittlesland *
1989-90	Betty Nesby *
1988-89	Janis Goetzinger *
1987-88	Lorraine Huntimer *
1986-87	Norma Miller
1985-86	Esther Jensen *
1984-85	Ethel Bainbridge *
1983-84	Twila Dvorak *
1982-83	Lois Bordeaux *
1981-82	Valois Danekas *
1980-81	Dorothy Littau *
1979-80	Gladys Gifford *
1978-79	Thelma Foster *
1977-78	Bonnie Slade *
1976-77	Doris Dale *
1975-76	Wanda Sletten *
1974-75	Edith Dailey *

1974–1921

Years	Department President
1973-74	Helen Gottsleben *
1972-73	Gladys Hight *
1971-72	Helen Johns *
1970-71	Melitta Schultz *
1969-70	Esther Bakkehaug *
1968-69	Ethel Bossman *
1967-68	Miriam Hauge *
1966-67	Helen Vlasak *
1965-66	Martha Engh *
1964-65	Doris Kinzie *
1963-64	Annie Andersen *
1962-63	Elsie Nelson *
1961-62	Anna Hatch *
1960-61	Hazel K. Helland *
1959-60	Hazel Parkinson *
1958-59	Agnes Christianson *
1957-58	Cecilia Elsing *
1956-57	Bernice Smith *
1955-56	Vera Ribble *
1954-55	Alice White *
1953-54	Dora Klinkel *
1952-53	Francis Hill Maud *
1951-52	Myrtle Watson *
1950-51	Isabel Willert *
1949-50	Addie Nelson *
1948-49	Bernice Weiss *
1947-48	Eva Bunday *
1946-47	Marie Kelley *
1945-46	Ella Imig *
1944-45	Helen Hogie *
1943-44	Marion Vaughn *
1942-43	Hazel Johnson *
1941-42	Elizabeth Ennis *
1940-41	Irene Ottman *
1939-40	Zella Scofield *
1938-39	Eleanor Wright *
1937-38	Marie Koch *
1936-37	Berniece Lefler *
1935-36	Clara Halls *
1934-35	Eva Sherburne *
1933-34	Linnie Bender *
1932-33	Henrietta Paulson *
1931-32	Christine Olson *
1930-31	Amy Andersen *
1929-30	Mrs. D.M. Bannister *
1928-29	Hazel Linstad *
1927-28	Pauline Crawford *
1926-27	Mrs. Marvin Cramer *
1925-26	Grace Kidd *
1924-25	Mrs. H.B. Mead *
1923-24	Julia Engelsby *
1922-23	Mabel Moody *
1921-22	Madge King *

Honorary Past Department Officers

Honorary Past Department President
Connie Krogh *

Honorary Past Department Secretary
Pat Coyle *

Honorary Past Department Secretary
Laurel Stringer

* Deceased