About DCAP
The National Association of Parliamentarians® (NAP) was organized in 1930. It is recognized as the oldest and largest professional non-profit association of parliamentarians in the world. NAP works with organizations and individuals to educate them on fair and effective meeting procedures. The District of Columbia Association of Parliamentarians (DCAP), chartered in 1969 is a division of the National Assocation of Parliamentarians. The purpose of DCAP is to promote the philosophy and principles underlying the rules of deliberative assemblies through the study, teaching, and dissemination of parliamentary law and procedure through use of Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised and other parliamentary authorities.
Past Presidents
Virginia Schlotzhauer* 1969-1970
Kathleen H. Bowker* 1970-1971
Frances P. Meyers* 1971-1972
Gertrude B. Hosmer* 1972-1975
Katherine G. Hobson* 1975-1977
Catherine Wittman 1977-1979
Nathala Cox 1979-1981
Albert H. Fitzgerald* 1981-1983
John D. Stackpole* 1983-1985
Jean Mostrom 1985-1988
Mary D. Braxton-Joseph 1988-1990
Betty F. Tunstall 1990-1992
Audra B. Rafter 1992-1994
Peola H. McCaskill 1994-1996
Pollie Washington* 1996-1998
Mary Jane Wolcott 1998-2000
Jacqueline Shillings 2000-2002
Johnnie R. Brown-Swift 2002-2004
Anne Mitchem-Davis* 2004-2006
Gwendolyne C. Brown 2006-2008
Darlene T. Allen 2008-2010
Rosalie H. Stroman 2010-2012
Margaret Smith Perkins 2012-2014
Ferial S. Bishop 2014-2016
Marjorie D. Vaughan 2016-2018
Rose L. Acker-McIver 2018-2020
HONORARY PRESIDENTS
Katherine G. Hobson*
Virginia Schlotzhauer*
Catherine Wittman*
HONORARY MEMBERS
Marjorie Sartwell*
Alan Frumin
Henry M. Robert, III *
Charles W. Johnson
Robert Dove
Betty F. Tunstall
* deceased
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