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===President and executive directors===
{{further|List of presidents of the American Library Association}}

ALA's President for the 2024–2025 term is [[Cindy Hohl]]. President-elect, [[Sam Helmick]], will preside in 2025-2026.

The executive director of the American Library Association delegates authority within ALA headquarters to ALA’s department heads, who, in carrying out their assigned duties, are called upon to use ALA’s name, and, in that name, to commit the Association to programs, activities, and binding agreements.<ref>"[https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/officers/eb__info_documents/roles_responsibiliti.pdf ALA President & Executive Director – Roles & Responsibilities]", ALA Executive Board. Annual Conference 2001 – San Francisco. EBD #5.3 2000-2001. June 12, 2001.</ref>
{{Collapse top|List of Executive Directors of the American Library Association}}
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!Name
!Tenure
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|[[Leslie Burger]]<ref>[https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/11/ala-appoints-leslie-burger-interim-executive-director ALA appoints Leslie Burger as Interim Executive Director] American Library Association, November 15, 2023.</ref> 
|2023-
|-
|[[Tracie D. Hall]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-15|title=ALA Appoints Tracie D. Hall as Executive Director|url=http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/01/ala-appoints-tracie-d-hall-executive-director|access-date=2020-06-26|website=American Library Association|language=en}}</ref>
|2020-2023
|-
|Mary W. Ghikas <ref>[https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/A%20Tribute%20Resolution%20Honoring%20Mary%20Ghikas.pdf A Tribute Resolution Honoring Mary Ghikas] American Library Association. June 27, 2020.</ref>
|2017-2020
|-
|[[Keith Michael Fiels]]
|2002-2017
|-
|William R. Gordon <ref>“William Gordon Selected Executive Director.” 1998. ''American Libraries'' 29 (May): 7.</ref>
|1998-2002
|-
|Mary W.  Ghikas
|1997-1998
|-
|[[Elizabeth Martinez (librarian)|Elizabeth Martinez]]
|1994-1997
|-
|[[Peggy Sullivan]]
|1992-1994
|-
|Linda F. Crismond <ref>DeCandido, G.A., and M. Rogers. 1989. “The First Woman: Linda Crismond Named Executive Director, ALA. (Cover Story).” ''Library Journal'' 114 (12): 14–17.</ref> First woman executive director.
|1989-1992
|-
|[[Thomas J. Galvin]]
|1985-1989
|-
|[[Robert Wedgeworth]]
|1972-1985
|-
|[[David Horace Clift]] (*Title changed to Executive Director as of November 1958)
|1951-1972
|-
|John MacKenzie Cory <ref>[https://archon.library.illinois.edu/ala/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=2621 John Mackenzie Cory] Director of New York Public Library. 1970-78.American Library Association Archives.</ref>
|1948–51
|-
|Harold F. Brigham (interim)<ref>[https://archon.library.illinois.edu/ala/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=7833&q=Harold+F.+Brigham+ Harold F. Brigham Papers, 1919-1942 |July–Aug., 1948] American Library Association Archives.</ref>
|1948
|-
|[[Carl Milam]]<ref>Sullivan, P. 1976. ''Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association.'' New York: H.W. Wilson.  
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|1920-1948
|}

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Secretaries of the Association prior to Carl Milam were [[George Burwell Utley]] (1911–20); [[Chalmers Hadley]] (1909–11); Edward C. Hovey (1905–7); [[James Ingersoll Wyer]] (1902–09); [[Frederick Winthrop Faxon]] (1900–02); [[Henry James Carr]] (1898–1900); [[Melvil Dewey]] (1897–98); [[Rutherford Platt Hayes]] (1896–97); [[Henry Livingston Elmendorf]] (1895–96); [[Frank Pierce Hill]] (1891–95); [[Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild|Mary Salome Cutler]] (1891); William E. Parker (1890– 1891) and [[Melvil Dewey]] (1879–90).<ref>American Library Association. "[https://www.ala.org/aboutala/history/past-executive-directors Past Executive Directors & Secretaries]".</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Wiegand |first=Wayne A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3iCt6HcgdcC |title=Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey |date=June 1996 |publisher=American Library Association |isbn=978-0-8389-0680-4 |language=en}}</ref>