Current MGA Chair Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota

Former Chairs of the Midwestern Governors Association

2012	Governor Terry Branstad	Iowa
2011	Governor Pat Quinn	Illinois
2010	Governor Ted Strickland	Ohio
2009	Governor Jennifer Granholm	Michigan
2008	Governor M. Michael Rounds	South Dakota
2007	Governor Jim Doyle	Wisconsin
2006	Governor Tim Pawlenty	Minnesota
2005	Governor Rod Blagojevich	Illinois
2004	Governor John Hoeven	North Dakota
2003	Governor Bob Holden	Missouri
2002	Governor Mike Johanns	Nebraska
2001	Governor Tom Vilsack	Iowa
2000	Governor George Ryan	Illinois
1998 & 1999	Governor Frank O'Bannon	Indiana
1997	Governor Bill Graves	Kansas
1996	Governor Jim Edgar	Illinois
1995	Governor Edward Schafer	North Dakota
1994	Governor E. Benjamin Nelson	Nebraska
1992 & 1993	Governor Arne H. Carlson	Minnesota
1991	Governor George V. Voinovich	Ohio
1989 & 1990	Governor Tommy G. Thompson	Wisconsin
1988	Governor Richard F. Celeste	Ohio
1987	Governor Terry E. Branstad	Iowa
1986	Governor Robert Kerrey	Nebraska
1985	Governor Robert D. Orr	Indiana
1984	Governor Rudy Perpich	Minnesota
1983	Governor Christopher S. Bond	Missouri
1983	Governor Charles Thone	Nebraska
1982	Governor John Carlin	Kansas
1981	Governor James R. Thompson	Illinois
1980	Governor Joseph P. Teasdale	Missouri
1979	Governor Otis R. Bowen, M.D.	Indiana
1978	Governor Aurthur A. Link	North Dakota
1977	Governor Christopher S. Bond	Missouri
1976	Governor Richard F. Kneip	South Dakota
1975	Governor William G. Milliken	Michigan
1974	Governor J. James Exon	Nebraska
1973	Governor Robert D. Ray	Iowa
1972	Governor Robert Docking	Kansas
1971	Governor Norbert T. Tiemann	Nebraska
1970	Governor Warren E. Hearnes	Missouri
1969	Governor Warren P. Knowles	Wisconsin
1968	Govenor Otto Kerner	Illinois
1967	Governor James A. Rhodes	Ohio
1966	Governor Karl F. Rolvaag	Minnesota
1965	Governor Geroge Romney	Michigan
1964	Governor Frank B. Morrison	Nebraska
1962 & 1963	Governor William L. Guy	North Dakota