Past Board Chairs & Presidents

About the Iowa Taxpayers Association

Past Board Chairs

2020 - 2022
Kevin Gaede - Kent Corporation

2018 - 2020
Sharon Presnall - Iowa Bankers Association

2018
Thomas Stanczyk - Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids

2015 - 2017
Richard Pullen - Principal Financial Group, Des Moines

2013 - 2015
Ann Stocker - Cargill, Eddyville

2011 - 2013
Thomas R. Hobson - Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids

2010 - 2011
Richard Wireman, III - Principal Financial Group, Des Moines

2007 - 2009
Myron R. Linn - Pella Corporation, Pella

2005 - 2007
Thomas K. Jarrett - Deere & Company, Moline

2003 - 2005
Steven R. Evans - MidAmerican Energy, Des Moines

2001 - 2003
Mickey J. Bladel - Bandag, Incorporated, Muscatine

1999 - 2001
Michael A. Eversmeyer - Varied Investments, Muscatine

1997 - 1999
Timothy M. Wilkinson - ALCOA, Bettendorf

1995 - 1997
Jerry L. Hadenfeldt - Meredith Corporation, Des Moines

1993 - 1995
Warren H. Heidbreder - Bandag, Incorporated, Muscatine

1991 - 1993
Leonard B. Allen - Deere & Company, Waterloo

1989 - 1991
Richard D. Spencer - Lennox Industries, Marshalltown

1988 - 1989
Sander L. Schoonover - Winnebago Industries, Forest City

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1986 - 1988
John F. Shanafelt - Iowa Public Service Co., Sioux City

1984 - 1986
Stan R. Hill - M.A. Ford Mfg. Co., Davenport

1981 - 1984
Gregory M. Brown - KIOWA Corporation, Marshalltown

1980 - 1981
Jack E. Knapp - Northwest States Portland Cement Company, Mason City

1978 - 1980
John W. Brust - ALCOA, Davenport

1976 - 1977
Guy G. Gilchrist - Iowa Light & Power Company, Des Moines

1973 - 1975
Elmer E. Bloom - Grain Processing Corporation, Muscatine

1972 - 1973
John Munger - Deere & Company, Des Moines

1969 - 1971
Hugh H. Hannah - ALCOA, Davenport

1967 - 1968
Walter E. Brown - KIOWA Corporation, Marshalltown

1965 - 1967
Murray B. Nelson - Maytag Corporation, Newton

1960 - 1964
Walter R. Cochran - John Deere Tractor Works, Waterloo

1957 - 1959
Lyle R. Mercer - Aluminum Company of America , Davenport

1955 - 1956
Joseph P. Lawlor - General Filter Co., Ames

1953 - 1954
George E. Pike - Pike, Sias & Butler, Waterloo

1949 - 1953
John S. Heffner - farmer and banker, Webster City

1948 - 1949
Guy E. Logan - Standard Chemical Co., Des Moines

1942 - 1947
Don V. McLean - Marshalltown County Taxpayers Association, Marshalltown

1935 - 1941 
Francis Johnson - Iowa Farm Bureau, Des Moines

Past Presidents

2015 - 2016
Jeff Smith

2013 - 2015
Dustin W. Blythe

2012 - 2013
Richard M. Vohs

2011 - 2012
Nicole Crain

2007 - 2011
Edward T. Wallace

2002 - 2006
Stacey L. Johnson
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1999 - 2002
Elliott G. Smith

1994 - 1999
Michael Ralston

1977 - 1994
Richard Phillips

1974 - 1977
Mel Grummert

1954 - 1974
Ray Edwards

1935 - 1954
Joe Long
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