| 1897 | William H. Smith |
| 1898 | Charles D. Hayt |
| 1899 | William H. Bryant |
| 1900 | Joel F. Vaile |
| 1901 | Hugh Butler |
| 1902 | James H. Blood |
| 1903 | George F. Dunklee |
| 1904 | Julius B. Bissell |
| 1905 | Charles W. Franklin |
| 1906 | Charles S. Thomas |
| 1907 | Frank C. Goudy |
| 1908 | Horace N. Hawkins |
| 1909 | H. L. Ritter |
| 1910 | A. Newton Patton |
| 1911 | H. E. Kelly |
| 1912 | L. M. Goddard |
| 1913 | Ernest Morris |
| 1914 | George C. Manly |
| 1915 | Frank N. Bancroft |
| 1916 | Harry C. Davis |
| 1917 | E. C. Stimson |
It is interesting to note that the very first piece of business taken up by the Association in November, 1891, immediately after its organization was the matter of "The Delays Caused by the Rules of the District Court," and that Judge George W. Allen responded for the judges to the attacks made upon the rules. The advertising divorce lawyer, like the law's delays, seem to have been an evil present then as now in the practice. Very stringent resolutions were adopted at one of the first meetings against lawyers advertising to procure divorces "legally and quietly, without appearing in court. Good everywhere."
As early as May, 1894, the Association made its first attempt to take part in the selection of judicial candidates. It then, through a committee of which Harper M. Orahood was chairman, selected ten nominees from each of the then
