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National Conference History

1959 Kansas City, Missouri (in conjunction with MTNA conference)
February 24, 1959
Archie Jones

1960 Atlantic City, New Jersey
March 16-17, 1960
R. Wayne Hugoboom

1961 Columbus, Ohio
April 5-6, 1961
J. Clark Rhodes

1962 Chicago, Illinois
March 14-15, 1962
J. Clark Rhodes

1964 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 11-12, 1964
Don H. Razey

1966 Kansas City, Missouri
March 16-17, 1966
Harold Decker

1968 Seattle, Washington
March 13-14, 1968
Theron Kirk

1970 Chicago, Illinois
March 6-10, 1970
Charles C. Hirt

1971 Kansas City, Missouri *
March 4-6, 1971
Morris D. Hayes

1973 Kansas City, Missouri
March 8-10, 1973
Russell Mathis

1975 St. Louis, Missouri
March 6-8, 1975
Walter Collins

1977 Dallas, Texas
March 10-12, 1977
H. Royce Saltzman

1979 Kansas City, Missouri
March 8-10, 1979
Robert Baar & James A. Moore

1981 New Orleans, Louisiana
March 5-7, 1981
Colleen J. Kirk

1983 Nashville, Tennessee
March 10-12, 1983
Maurice Casey

1985 Salt Lake City, Utah
March 7-9, 1985
Hugh Sanders

1987 San Antonio, Texas
March 12-14, 1987
David Thorsen

1989 Louisville, Kentucky
March 8-11, 1989
Diana J. Leland

1991 Phoenix, Arizona
March 13-16, 1991
William Hatcher

1993 San Antonio, Texas
March 3-6, 1993
John Haberlen

1995 Washington, D.C.
March 8-11, 1995
Lynn Whitten

1997 San Diego, California
March 5-8, 1997
James A. Moore

1999 Chicago, Illinois
February 24-27, 1999
Milburn Price

2001 San Antonio, Texas
March 14-17, 2001
David Stutzenberger

2003 New York, New York
February 12-15, 2003
Mitzi Groom

2005 Los Angeles, California
February 2-5, 2005
Michele Holt

2007 Miami, Florida
March 7-10, 2007
Hilary Apfelstadt

2009 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 4-7, 2009
Jerry McCoy

2011 Chicago, Illinois
March 9-12, 2011
Jo-Michael Scheibe

2013 Dallas, Texas
March 13-16, 2013
Karen Fulmer

2015 Salt Lake City, Utah
February 25-28, 2015
Mary Hopper

2017 Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 8-11, 2017
Tom Shelton

2019 Kansas City, Missouri
February 27-March 2, 2019
Lynne Gackle

2021 Virtual Conference
March 18-20, 2021
André Thomas

2023 Cincinnati, Ohio
February 21-25, 2023
David Fryling

2025 Dallas, Texas
March 18-22, 2025
Edith Copley

* ACDA’s first independent national conference.

Note: Conferences held between 1960 and 1970 were held in conjunction with MENC conferences.

Unidentified workers and attendee at the 1977 national conference in Dallas, Texas.
Unidentified workers and attendee at the 1977 national conference in Dallas, Texas.

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