The Desert Bar Association was established to maintain the honor and integrity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice, to cultivate social activities among its members and to support and administer programs and activities consonant with such goals.
Each of our past Presidents has played a significant role in achieving these goals. They were elected because of their commitment to the legal profession, their passion for promoting it, and for their exceptional leadership skills needed to perpetuate the DBA. Below are our past Presidents.
| 2018 - 2019 | Robert J. Gilliland, Jr. |
| 2017-2018 | Kimberly T. Lee |
| 2016-2017 | Karen J. Sloat. |
| 2015-2016 | Julie Rosser Balbini |
| 2014-2015 | Michael B. Rover |
| 2013-2014 | Patricia Muñoz-Muro |
| 2012-2013 | David B. Mulé |
| 2011-2012 | Mary E. Gilstrap |
| 2010-2011 | Barbara Baron |
| 2009-2010 | Matt Morris |
| 2008-2009 | Donald Griffith |
| 2007-2008 | Peter Bochnewich |
| 2006-2007 | Martin A. Mueller |
| 2005-2006 | Dawn Swajian |
| 2004-2005 | Rosalind G. Miller |
| 2003-2004 | Jack FitzGerald III |
| 2002-2003 | Basil Chapman |
| 2001-2002 | Brian S. Harnik |
| 2000-2001 | Daniel T. Johnson |
| 1999-2000 | Robert Hurley |
| 1998-1999 | Hon. John G. Evans |
| 1997-1998 | Antonia Graphos |
| 1996-1997 | Hon. David Chapman |
| 1995-1996 | Hon. Douglas P. Miller / Virginia Criste |
| 1994-1995 | Hon. Jim Hawkins |
| 1993-1994 | Barbara Brand |
| 1992-1993 | Michael Zitomer |
| 1991-1992 | D. Martin Nethery |
| 1990-1991 | Toni Tweedle Healy |
| 1989-1990 | Michael Cosgrove |
| 1988-1989 | Joseph A. Gibbs |
| 1987-1988 | Joel Miliband |
| 1986-1987 | Tom Slovak / Hon. Tom Douglass |
| 1985-1986 | Jeff Patterson |
| 1984-1985 | Michael J. Andelson |
| 1983-1984 | Sue DeGasperin Steding |
| 1982-1983 | David Agnew |
| 1981-1982 | L. Barry Mack |
| 1980-1981 | Jon Shoenberger |
| 1979-1980 | Dennis J. Healey |
| 1978-1979 | Walter T. Clark |
| 1977-1978 | Lee Mohr |
| 1976-1977 | Hon. Noah Ned Jamin |
| 1975-1976 | Gary Scherotter |
| 1974-1975 | Jean Ann Hirschi |
| 1973-1974 | Paul Selzer |
| 1972-1973 | Paul Selzer |
| 1971-1972 | David J. Erwin |
| 1970-1971 | James Windham |
| 1969-1970 | Hon. Richard Robinson |
| 1968-1969 | Hon. Richard Robinson |
| 1967-1968 | Hon. Harry Wolpert |
| 1966-1967 | F. Gillar Boyd |
| 1965-1966 | F. Gillar Boyd |
| 1964-1965 | Thomas Anderson |
| 1963-1964 | Thomas Anderson |
| 1962-1963 | James Schlecht |
| 1961-1962 | Henry Cleary |
| 1960-1961 | Hon. John Carroll |
| 1959-1960 | Robert Schlesinger |
| 1958-1959 | Hon. Richard Marsh |
| 1957-1958 | Saul Ruskin |
| 1956-1957 | Hon. Fred Woolpert |
| 1955-1956 | Hon. David McGahey |
| 1954-1955 | Hon. Warren Slaughter |
| 1953-1954 | Hon. Rex Hardy / Hon. Warren Slaughter |
| 1952-1953 | Hon. Wallace Rouse |
| 1951-1952 | Hon. Eugene Theriault |