Below is a list of WES presidents to date. Click on the links to find out more about them.
- 2018-present Dawn Childs
- 2015-2018 Benita Mehra
- 2014-2015 Dawn Bonfield MBE
- 2013-2014 Carol Marsh OBE
- 2011-2013 Milada Williams
- 2008-2010 Jan Peters MBE
- 2007 Grazyna Whapshott
- 2005-2006 Dawn Fitt OBE
- 2003-2004 Pam Wain
- 2002 Jackie Carpenter
- 2001 Jackie Longworth MBE
- 2000 Nicole Rockliff
- 1999 Suzanne Flynn
- 1998 Petra Godwin
- 1997-1998 Philippa Ayton
- 1995-1997 Mary Harris / Sue Bird
- 1993-1995 Lynette Willoughby
- 1991-1993 Sue Bird
- 1989-1991 Dorothy Hatfield OBE
- 1987-1989 Hilda Blount
- 1985-1987 Linda Maynard
- 1983-1985 Daphne Jackson OBE
- 1982-1983 Rosemary West
- 1980-1981 Maria Watkins
- 1978-1979 Veronica Milligan
- 1976-1977 Henrietta Bussell
- 1974-1975 Gwendolen Howard
- 1972-1973 Peggy Hodges OBE
- 1970-1971 May Maple
- 1968-1969 Elizabeth Laverick OBE
- 1966-1967 Rose Winslade OBE
- 1965 Cicely Thompson MBE
- 1964 Dorothy Cridland
- 1963 Cicely Thompson MBE
- 1961-1962 Isabel Hardwich
- 1959-1960 Madeleine Nobbs
- 1957-1958 Marjorie Bell
- 1955-1956 Kathleen Cook
- 1954-1955 Dorothy Pile
- 1952-1953 Ella Collin
- 1950-1951 Sheila Leather
- 1948-1949 Frances Heywood
- 1946-1947 Winifred Hackett
- 1944-1945 Margaret Partridge
- 1942-1943 Gertrude Entwisle
- 1940-1941 Dame Caroline Haslett
- 1938-1939 Edith Mary Douglas
- 1935-1937 Amy Johnson CBE
- 1933-1934 Elizabeth Kennedy
- 1930-1932 Verena Holmes
- 1929-1930 Lady Margaret Moir OBE
- 1926-1928 Laura Willson MBE
- 1922-1925 The Hon Katharine, Lady Parsons
- 1919-1921 Rachel Parsons