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Patricia Thom 

2025 - 2026

Susan Murray

2024 - 2025

Sheila Webster

2023 - 2024

Murray Etherington

2022 – 2023

Ken Dalling

2021 – 2022

Amanda Millar

2020 – 2021

John Mulholland

2019 – 2020

Alison Atack

2018 – 2019

Graham Matthews

2017 – 2018

Eilidh Wiseman

2016 – 2017

Christine McLintock

2015 – 2016

Alistair Morris

2014 – 2015

Bruce Beveridge

2013 – 2014

Austin Lafferty

2012 – 2013

Cameron Ritchie

2011 – 2012

Jamie Millar

2010 – 2011

Ian Smart

2009 – 2010

Richard Henderson

2008 – 2009

John MacKinnon

2007 – 2008

Ruthven Gemmell

2006 – 2007

Caroline Flanagan

2005 – 2006

Sheriff Principal Duncan Murray

2004 – 2005

Sheriff Joseph Platt

2003 – 2004

David M Preston

2002 – 2003 - deceased

Martin J McAllister

2001 – 2002

Alastair Thornton

2000 – 2001

Michael Scanlan

1999 – 2000 - deceased

Philip Dry

1998 – 1999 - deceased

John Elliot

1997 – 1998

Sheriff A Grant McCulloch

1996 – 1997

Alan Boyd

1995 – 1996

Sheriff Kenneth A Ross

1994 – 1995

Sheriff Ian D Dunbar

1993 – 1994

Brian Adair

1992 – 1993

Jimmy Campbell

1991 – 1992 – deceased

Andrew T F Gibb

1990 – 1991

Alistair Clark

1989 – 1990 - deceased

Professor J R Harper CBE

1988 – 1989

Jock Smith

1987 – 1988 - deceased

John McNeil CBE

1986 – 1987 - deceased

Norman M Stewart

1985 – 1986 - deceased

G. R. G. Graham CBE

1984 – 1985

Sandy McIlwain CBE

1983 – 1984 - deceased

T Norman Biggart CBE

1982 – 1983 - deceased

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1981 – 1982 - deceased

Michael Park CBE

1980 – 1981 - deceased

Robin A Edwards

1979 – 1980

W C Denys Andrews

1978 – 1979 - deceased

Alistair Hamilton

1977 – 1978 - deceased

Sheriff Iain Macmillan

1976 – 1977 - deceased

Jim Wheelans CBE

1974 – 1976 - deceased

James Sutherland

1972 – 1974 - deceased

John Watson

1970 – 1972 - deceased

Murray Wilkie

1968 – 1970 - deceased

Alistair Cook

1966 – 1968 - deceased

Sir Hugh Watson

1964 – 1966 - deceased

Neil Watson

1961 – 1964 - deceased

James Naughton Dandie

1958 – 1961 - deceased

Ralph Risk

1955 – 1958 - deceased

Professor Harry Henderson Monteath

1953 – 1955 - deceased

Sir John Spencer Muirhead

1950 – 1953 - deceased

Sir Ernest MacLagan Wedderburn

1949 – 1950 - deceased

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