Southwest District Past Governors

We honor and appreciate all that our past governors have done to make the Southwest District what it is today. We thank them for their dedication to improving the world one child and one community at a time.

2024-2025
Dr. Sheila Barnett
The Kiwanis Club of the Colorado River

2023-2024
Mary Skalkoyannis
The Kiwanis Club of Sun City West

2022-2023
Alma Carson
The Kiwanis Club of Silver City

2021-2022
Tony Gutowski
The Kiwanis Club of Flagstaff

2020-2021
Don Townsend
The Kiwanis Club of Sierra Vista

2019-2020
Harry Shapiro
The Kiwanis Club of Glendale

2018-2019
Don Levine
The Kiwanis Club of Corrales

2017-2018
Edvin Verburg
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

2016-2017
Michael Iafrato
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

2015-2016
Robert Carson
The Kiwanis Club of Silver City

2014-2015
Joe Deblasi
The Kiwanis Club of Sun City

2013-2014
Windy Zachek
The Kiwanis Club of Arrowhead

2012-2013
James Courtright
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

2011-2012
Bobby Davis
The Kiwanis Club of Payson

2010-2011
Bruce Knappenberger
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

2009-2010
Ron Smith
The Kiwanis Club of Fountain Hills

2008-2009
James Lee
The Kiwanis Club of Portales

2007-2008
Herb Hayde
The Kiwanis Club of Carefree

2006-2007
Jim Jennings
The Kiwanis Club of Green Valley

2005-2006
Bobbie Virden
The Kiwanis Club of Alamogordo

2004-2005
John Finley
The Kiwanis Club of Hereford

2003-2004
Dr. James Galbraith
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

2002-2003
S. Richard Caley
The Kiwanis Club of Tempe

2001-2002
Gordon Hendrickson
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

2000-2001
Myron Des Chene
The Kiwanis Club of Lake Havasu

1999-2000
Henry Wehmeyer
The Kiwanis Club of Alamogordo

1998-1999
Rose Ann Dodson
The Kiwanis Club of Mesa

1997-1998
Robert McBride
The Kiwanis Club of Mesa

1996-1997
Donald R. Root
The Kiwanis Club of Alamogordo

1995-1996
Michelle G. Nevins
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1994-1995
Earl E. Weeks
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1993-1994
R. Gregg Dodson
The Kiwanis Club of Chandler

1992-1993
West McLean
The Kiwanis Club of Scottsdale

1991-1992
Timothy M. Young
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1990-1991
Charles H. Hartman, Jr.
The Kiwanis Club of Alamogordo

1989-1990
Harold C. Larson
The Kiwanis Club of Flagstaff

1988-1989
Karl Kohlhoff
The Kiwanis Club of Mesa

1987-1988
Charles R. Nichols
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1986-1987
Richard H. Schwartz
The Kiwanis Club of Carefree

1985-1986
Jesse Najera
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1984-1985
J.R. Brooks
The Kiwanis Club of Scottsdale

1983-1984
Michael G.P. Pratt
The Kiwanis Club of Cottonwood

1982-1983
Richard R. Reahard
The Kiwanis Club Gallup

1981-1982
W. Coy Williams
The Kiwanis Club Bisbee

1980-1981
Lowell O. Amundson
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1979-1980
Vernon D. Evans
The Kiwanis Club of Sun City

1978-1979
Jack L. Marcus
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1977-1978
Maurice Sanchez
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1976-1977
Dr. Thomas P. Salyer
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1975-1976
Dr. Marcus M. Marble, Jr.
The Kiwanis Club of Litchfield

1974-1975
Gail Shannon
The Kiwanis Club of Portales

1973-1974
Dick Smith
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1972-1973
George Ernst
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1971-1972
Carl F. Miller
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1970-1971
Dr. John S. Johnson
The Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas

1969-1970
Andrew S. Gibbons, Jr.
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1969
Hans M. Doerfert
The Aztec Kiwanis Club

1968
John C. Lofstedt
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1967
T.J. Midkiff
The Kiwanis Club of Carlsbad

1966
George E. Cornforth
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1965
Dr. Melvin D. Bivens
The Kiwanis Club of Alburquerque

1964
Dr. Bown K. Kitt
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1963
Welcome J. Erbe
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1962
F.B. Henry Ford
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1961
Alfred G. King
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1960
Robert Y. Porton
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos

1959
Alfred Thomas, Jr.
The Kiwanis Club of Tempe

1958
Charles M. Johnson
The Kiwanis Club of Roswell

1957
A. Fred Rosen
The Kiwanis Club of Bisbee

1956
Victor H. Lytle
The Kiwanis Club of Prescott

1955
Richard M. Bowen
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1954
John R. Franks
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1953
Merle H. Tucker
The Kiwanis Club of Gallup

1952
Martin E. Wist
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1951
James J. Kaster, Jr.
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1950
William F. Kimball
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1949
E. Park Sellard
The Kiwanis Club of Gallup

1948
Edward W. Overman
The Kiwanis Club of Roswell

1947
Rev. Dr. Charles Franklin Parker
The Kiwanis Club of Prescott

1946
Albert E. Buck
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1945
Erwin H. Will
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1944
George W. Trehearne
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1943
Dr. David R. Biddle
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1942
A. Louis Slonaker
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1941
Dr. D.R. Robbins
The Kiwanis Club of Las Cruces

1940
Shelton Dowell
The Kiwanis Club of Douglass

1939
Frank S. Lawrence
The Kiwanis Club of Gallup

1938
Harris Walthall
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1937
J. Oscar Sexson
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1936
Richard Lamson
The Kiwanis Club of Prescott

1935
Dorrance D. Roderick
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1934
Hugh M. Milton
The Kiwanis Club of Las Cruces

1933
Vic H. Housholder
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1932
E.J. Strong
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1931
William G. Wuehrman
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1930
Rev. George A. Andrews
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1929
Fred W. Nichols
The Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas

1928
Dr. William P. Sims
The Kiwanis Club of Bisbee

1927
H.F. Robinson
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1926
Charles F. Willis
The Kiwanis Club of Phoenix

1925
Charles H. Stearns
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1924
John S. White
The Kiwanis Club of Tucson

1923
William R. Blair
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1922
Dr. H.M. Bowers
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1921
Dr. H.M. Bowers
The Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque

1919-1920
J.W. Patrick
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso

1918
J.W. Patrick
The Kiwanis Club of El Paso