Past Presidents

Beginning with our first President, Hugh Prather in 1944, 81 individuals have led the Dallas Builders Association.

These include some of the most iconic names of our area’s housing industry and those whose careers are still defining it.

2024 – Adam Lingenfelter

2023 – John Porizek

2022 – Andrew Pieper

2021 – Matt Mitchell

2020 – Justin Webb

2019 – Matt Robinson

2018 – Alan Hoffmann​

2017 – Michael Turner

2016 – Donnie Evans

2015 – Frank Murphy

2014 – Jeff Dworkin

2013 – Joe Chamberlain*

2012 – Keller Webster

2011 – Carol Longacre

2010 – Liz Newman

2009 – Tim Jackson

2008 – Donny Mack

2007 – T.W. Bailey Sr.

2006 – Mike Mishler

2005 – Robert F. Pavlis

2004 – Gaylord Hanes*

2003 – George Lewis*

2002 – Randall Hall

2001 – Debora Kerstein Trimpe

2000 – Ed Harrison

1999 – Jerry Carter

1998 – Robert J. Cresswell

1997 – C. Kent Conine

1996 – Carl R. Buck

1995 – James A. Siepiela

1994 – Gordon Todd

1993 – Peter Shaddock, Sr.

1992 – Marvin Randle

1991 – John Summitt*

1990 – Hershel H. Pierce

1989 – Kenneth G. Pritchett

1988 – John P. Bynum

1987 – James Smith II

1986 – Ken DeJarnett

1985 – Russell K. Adams*

1984 – Phil Jobe

1983 – Oscar Ponder*

1982 – Gage Prichard, Sr.

1981 – Ernest F. Kennedy*

1980 – L. Bradley Camp*

1979 – Mike Mahaffey*

1978 – Vernon Roberts*

1977 – Roy F. Cresswell*

1976 – Eric Eriksson*

1975 – Charles G. Roffino*

1974 – Harold A. Pollman*

1973 – James O. Abston*

1972 – Wayne Hurd*

1971 – Harold Peek

1970 – George O. Yamini*

1969 – Wayne Miles*

1968 – John Worley*

1967 – A.P. Roffino*

1966 – John Mahaffey*

1965 – Fred N. Peek*

1964 – Wayne A. Bennett*

1963 – David G. Fox*

1962 – James W. Smith*

1961 – Leland G. Lee Jr.*

1960 – George M. Underwood Jr.*

1959 – William Gaynier*

1958 – W.H. Roberts*

1957 – Joe F. Maberry*

1956 – Harold F. Smith*

1955 – James W. Bailey*

1954 – W. Hal McGraw*

1953 – Wilson H. Brown*

1952 – Vernon S. Smith*

1951 – Roland L. Pelt*

1950 – H. Leslie Hill*

1949 – Avery Mays*

1948 – Carl Brown*

1947 – Robert S. Shelburne*

1946 – Hal Moseley*

1945 – J.B. Cozzo*

1944 – Hugh Prather*

*Deceased