Past Presidents

Serving as part of the PPMA Leadership community is alot of hard work, but it is also a great professional honour.  We are proud of our history and we don’t want to ever forget that as we forge ahead into our future.  We keep in touch with our PPMA Past Presidents and we do a quarterly update for those who wish to keep up with all that we are doing.

When the Association was created, it was known as the Society of Chief Personnel Officers in Local Government and known as SOCPO.  In 2006 the Association was transformed.  It’s focus extended to all of public services and our membership community today includes Central and Local Government, Blue Light, 3rd sector and other organisations.

Given the length of the association, we have sadly lost Past Presidents.  For those we have been able to honour, you can click on their name to see an obituary.

Our roll call of Past Presidents is as follows.

SOCPO Past Presidents PPMA Past Presidents
D E Thomas – 1975

J Handel – 1976

A A Lawrence – 1977-78

F E Berry – 1979

R P F Hughes – 1980

D R Light – 1981

R Grove – 1982

C Bate – 1983

A Hood – 1984

R S Withers – 1985

B A McAndrew – 1986

Kevin Graves – 1987

Judith Lovelace – 1988

David B Metcalfe – 1989

Ron Patterson – 1990

Alwyn Rea – 1991

Alf Illingworth – 1992

John Tonks – 1993

David Phelps – 1994

Moira Holmes – 1995

Robert Cragg – 1996

Susan Thomas – 1997

Roger Bennett – 1998

Rita Sammons – 1999

Terry Gorman – 2000

Keith Handley – 2001

Francesca Okosi – 2002

Mary Mallett – 2003

Alan Warner – 2004

Jan Parkinson – 2005

Angela O’Connor – 2006 – 07

Phil Badley – 2007

Stephen Moir – 2007-09

Gillian Hibberd – 2009-10

Dean Shoesmith – 2010-11

Anne Gibson – 2011-12

Martin Rayson – 2012-13

Richard Crouch – 2013-14

Louise Tibbert – 2014-15

Barry Pirie – 2015-16

Sue Evans – 2016-17

Caroline Nugent – 2017-18

Karen Grave 2018-20

Steve Davies 2020-22

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If you would like more information on our structure, you can contact Grace.