- 2022-2024 Jeff Bravin
- 2018-2022 David Geeslin
- 2016-2018 Sandra G. Edwards
- 2014-2016 James E. Tucker
- 2010-2014 Ron Stern
- 2008-2010 Ed Bosso
- 2006-2008 James E. Tucker
- 2004-2006 Claire Bugen
- 2002-2004 Harold Mowl, Jr.
- 2000-2002 Edward Corbett
- 1998-2000 Joseph Fischgrund
- 1996-1998 Gertrude Galloway
- 1994-1996 Oscar Cohen
- 1992-1994 William Johnson
- 1990-1992 Barry Griffing
- 1988-1990 Winfield McChord
- 1986-1988 Robert Davila
- 1984-1986 Henry Klopping
- 1982-1984 Bill Peck
- 1980-1982 Doin Hicks
- 1978-1980 Edgar L. Lowell
- 1976-1978 Ralph L. Hoag
- 1974-1976 Richard G. Brill
- 1972-1974 Lloyd A. Harrison
- 1970-1972 Roy M. Stelle
- 1968-1970 Ben E. Hoffmeyer
- 1966-1968 Edward W. Tillinghast
- 1963-1966 Hugo F. Schunhoff
- 1960-1963 William J. McClure
- 1957-1960 Marshall S. Hester
- 1954-1957 Edmund B. Boatner
- 1951-1954 Howard M. Quigley
- 1948-1951 Sam B. Craig
- 1944-1948 Percival Hall
- 1939-1944 Frank M. Driggs
- 1933-1939 J. W. Blattner
- 1930-1933 Frank W. Booth
- 1928-1930 E. McK. Goodwin
- 1926-1928 Augustus Rogers
- 1924-1926 I.B. Gardner
- 1919-1924 J.W. Jones
- 1913-1919 Richard O. Johnson
- 1900-1913 Francis D. Clarke
- 1892-1900 Isaac Lewis Peet
- 1888-1892 J.L. Noyes
- 1884-1888 R.A. Mott
- 1880-1884 Thomas Gallaudet
- 1876-1880 Thomas MacIntire
- 1872-1876 Phillip G. Gilett
- 1868-1872 H.P. Peet
* From 1868 to 1884 the organization was known as the Conference of Principals of American Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb, and from 1884 to 1933 as the Conference of Superintendents and Principals of American Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb. In 1933, the name Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf was adopted, and in 1980 the name was changed to Conference of Educational Administrators Serving the Deaf. In 1996 the name was changed to its current name.
