Past Leadership

The Lincoln Club of Delaware has been shaped by generations of dedicated leaders. This page recognizes the past presidents who have helped preserve the Club’s mission and legacy since 1929.

2000-2025

  • 2025 — Brandon Brice
  • 2024 — Christopher L. Kenny, Esq.
  • 2023 — L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin
  • 2022 — Hon. Noel Eason Primos
  • 2021 — Joan DelFattore, Ph.D.
  • 2020 — Hon. Michael W. Arrington
  • 2019 — Shawn L. Nesbit, MBA
  • 2018 — Hon. James T. Vaughn, Jr.
  • 2017 — Joseph A. Napoli, M.D., DDS
  • 2016 — Hon. William L. Witham, Jr.
  • 2015 — Hon. Anne Hartnett Reigle
  • 2014 — Hon. Charles H. Toliver, IV
  • 2013 — Hon. Myrna L. Bair, Ph.D.
  • 2012 — Martin S. Lessner, Esq.
  • 2011 — Hon. James P. Neal
  • 2010 — Mark Turner
  • 2009 — David S. Swayze, Esq.
  • 2008 — Patrick Murray
  • 2007 — Hon. Henry duPont Ridgely
  • 2006 — David E. Hollowell, MBA
  • 2005 — G. Irvin Lipp
  • 2004 — Justin Carisio
  • 2003 — Hon. Jane P. Maroney
  • 2002 — Samuel L. Waltz, Jr., APR
  • 2001 — David P. Roselle, Ph.D.
  • 2000 — Anthony G. Flynn, Sr., Esq.

1999-1964

  • 1999 — Robert J. Krapf, Esq.
  • 1998 — R. Thorpe Moeckel
  • 1997 — H. Murray Sawyer, Jr.
  • 1996 — Joseph E. Carbonell, III, AIA
  • 1995 — F. L. Peter Stone, Esq.
  • 1994 — Richard E. Poole, Esq.
  • 1993 — Hon. Jerome O. Herlihy
  • 1992 — Stanley G. Budner
  • 1991 — Robert B. Rickards
  • 1990 — David H. Burdash
  • 1989 — Hon. Andrew G. T. Moore, II
  • 1988 — Hon. Charles K. Keil
  • 1987 — Gilbert S. Scarborough, Jr.
  • 1986 — Stephen E. Herrmann, Esq.
  • 1985 — Thomas L. Clark
  • 1984 — Louis L. Redding, Esq.
  • 1983 — Donald A. Rydgren
  • 1982 — Thomas Herlihy, III, Esq.
  • 1981 — Rabbi Herbert E. Drooz
  • 1980 — Robert R. Hoopes, D.D.S.
  • 1979 — Paul E. Shipley
  • 1978 — William G. Moeckel, AIA
  • 1977 — William W. Swayze, III
  • 1976 — Donald W. Booker, Esq.
  • 1975 — Hon. Thomas Herlihy, Jr.
  • 1974 — Hon. Clarence W. Taylor
  • 1973 — Arnold Goldsborough
  • 1972 — Hon. Daniel L. Herrmann
  • 1971 — Hon. C. Douglass Buck, Jr.
  • 1970 — Clement C. Wood, Esq.
  • 1969 — W. Murray Metten
  • 1968 — Hon. Caleb M. Wright
  • 1967 — Ward W. Briggs, M.D.
  • 1966 — Harold Brayman
  • 1965 — Peter Allison
  • 1964 — Albert W. James, Esq.

1963-1929

  • 1963 — Hon. H. Albert Young
  • 1962 — H. Edmund Bullis
  • 1961 — Philip J. Nowland
  • 1960 — W. Albert Haddock
  • 1959 — Hon. Henry W. Bryan
  • 1958 — Samuel Lenher
  • 1958 — Edwin P. Neilan
  • 1957 — Samuel Lenher
  • 1956 — Samuel Lenher
  • 1955 — Pierre S. duPont, III
  • 1954 — Pierre S. duPont, III
  • 1953 — Pierre S. duPont, III
  • 1952 — Pierre S. duPont, III
  • 1951 — Frank E. Schoonover
  • 1950 — Frank E. Schoonover
  • 1949 — Hon. Percy Warren Green
  • 1948 — James R. Frorer
  • 1947 — Frank H. McCormick
  • 1946 — Alfred D. Warner, Jr.
  • 1945 — J. Edgar Rhoads
  • 1944 — J. Edgar Rhoads
  • 1943 — J. Edgar Rhoads
  • 1942 — G. Morris Whiteside, AIA
  • 1941 — G. Morris Whiteside, AIA
  • 1940 — John K. Garrigues
  • 1939 — Paul J. Nowland
  • 1938 — J. Edgar Rhoads
  • 1937 — William F. Metten
  • 1936 — Joseph Bancroft
  • 1935 — Walter J. Hullihen, Ph.D.
  • 1934 — Hon. William H. Heald, LL.D.
  • 1933 — Frank G. Tallman
  • 1932 — Hon. Thomas F. Bayard
  • 1931 — Hon. William H. Heald, LL.D.
  • 1930 — The Reverend Charles L. Candee, D.D.
  • 1929 — The Reverend Charles L. Candee, D.D.

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