Past Board Presidents

The Virginia Society of Tax & Accounting Professionals Board President presides over all affairs of the society. VSTAP has been governed by a long line of leaders who have each left their own legacy with the society, please review past presidents below. 


2016-Current President
William R. Silzer

2014-2016
Paul V. Thompson

2006-2014
William R. Silzer

2004-2006
K. Craig Thompson

2002-2004
Richard A. Hazel

2001-2002
Faisal Hallaj

1999-2001
William R. Stewart

1997-1999
David M. Berard

1995-1997
Alma Paul Kelly

1993-1995
Ralph Sutton

1992-1993
Elizabeth W. Meredith

1990-1992
Robert Hicks 

1989-1990
Robert Mitchell 

1987-1989
Charles Johnson

1985-1987
Elizabeth Ellis

1983-1985
Ralph Amernick

1981-1983
Art Cummings

1979-1981
Eugene C. Beacham 

1977-1979
George Tsoukatos

1975-1977
James Fincham 

1973-1975
Lewis Marsh

1971-1973
Samuel Braunstein

1969-1971
Robert Grille

1964-1965
Melvin Whiteston

1958-1960
Raymond Morgan

1950-1952
Max Sears

1967-1969
Joe Leibowitz

1962-1964
Carl Katz

1956-1958
Al Wright

1949-1950
Leonard Hite

1966-1967
Joe Brown

1961-1962
Mary Hayes

1954-1956
Lee Martin 

1948-1949
Melvin Whitestone 

1965-1966
Hamilton Dunn

1960-1961
Howard Blount

1952-1954
Louis Mirman

1947-1948
Walter Sanford

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