Presidents of the IEEE Magnetics Society - 1965-2019
| President | Affiliation | Years |
| Herbert F. Storm (a) | General Electric | 1965-1967 |
| W. Lee Shevel Jr. (a) | IBM | 1967-1969 |
| Joseph J. Suozzi (a) | Bell Telephone Laboratories | 1969-1971 |
| Robert C. Byloff (a) | Louis Allis Company | 1971-1972 (b) |
| Emerson W. Pugh | IBM | 1973-1974 |
| Fred E. Luborsky | General Electric | 1975-1976 |
| Fritz J. Friedlaender | Purdue University | 1977-1978 |
| Daniel I. Gordon | Naval Surface Warfare Center | 1979-1980 |
| James M. Lommel | General Electric | 1981-1982 |
| Clark E. Johnson Jr. | Vertimag Systems | 1983-1984 |
| Alan B. Smith | Digital Equipment | 1985-1986 |
| William D. Doyle | Eastman Kodak | 1987-1988 |
| Richard M. Josephs | Naval Air Development Center | 1989-1990 |
| Stanley H. Charap | Carnegie Mellon University | 1991-1992 |
| David A. Thompson | IBM | 1993-1994 |
| James E. Opfer | Hewlett-Packard | 1995-1996 |
| Daniel D. Stancil | Carnegie Mellon University | 1997-1998 |
| Edward Della Torre | George Washington University | 1999-2000 |
| Robert E. Fontana | IBM | 2001-2002 |
| Ronald S. Indeck | Washington University, St. Louis | 2003-2004 |
| Kevin O’Grady | University of York | 2005-2006 |
| Carl E. Patton | Colorado State University | 2007-2008 |
| Randall H. Victora | University of Minnesota | 2009-2010 |
| Takao Suzuki | University of Alabama | 2011-2012 |
| Liesl Folks | University of Buffalo | 2013-2014 |
| Bruce Terris | HGST | 2015-2016 |
| Manuel Vazquez | Institute of Materials Science of Madrid, CSIC |
2017-2018 |
| Pallavi Dhagat | Oregon State University | 2019-2020 |
NOTE:
(a) = Chairman (b) = Magnetics Group accorded Society status in 1972.
