Note: years shown prior to 1949 are as found in available archival records and may not be definitive.
Committee Years Chair; co–chair
Auroral 1940–1948 Edward A. Halbach
1951–1954 Donald S. Kimball
Cataclysmic Variable 2008– Mike Simonsen; Gary Poyner
Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) 1992–1994 Priscilla J. Benson
1994–1996 Priscilla J. Benson; Gary Walker
1996–1999 Gary Walker; Priscilla J. Benson
1999–2008 Gary Walker
Classical Cepheids 1967–1994 Thomas A. Cragg
Chart Curators 1928–1935 Helen S. Hogg
1936–1947 Ferdinand Hartmann
1948–1961 Richard W. Hamilton
Charts 1918–1920 John J. Crane
1921–1934 David B. Pickering
1934–1948 Dalmiro F. Brocchi
1948–1955 Harold B. Webb
1955–1969 Richard W. Hamilton
1971–1992 Clinton B. Ford
1992–2006 Charles E. Scovil
2006–2010 AAVSO Headquarters
2010–2015 Mike Simonsen
2015– Tom Bretl
Data Mining 2008–2010 Michael Koppelman
Eclipsing Binary 1965–1969 David B. Williams
1969–2007 Marvin E. Baldwin
2007–2008 Gerard Samolyk
2008– Gerard Samolyk; Gary Billings
Education and Outreach 2006–2009 Pamela Gay
Exoplanets 2016– Dennis Conti
Long Period Variable 2008–2009 Katherine Hutton; Mike Simonsen
2009-2012 Mike Simonsen
2013-2015 Matthew Templeton
2015-2016 Michael Soukup
2016-2019 Andrew Pearce
Moon 1935 Ernest W. Brown
Nova Search 1935–1939 Luverne E. Armfield
1939–1948 Roy A. Seely
1953–1955 Margaret W. Mayall
1955–1972 George Diedrich
1972–1983 Carmine V. Borzelli
1983–2011 Rev. Kenneth C. Beckmann
Occultations 1928–1937 J. Ernest G. Yalden
1937 Dirk Brouwer
1937–1938 Anne S. Young
1938–1951 Alice H. Farnsworth
1951–1956 Margaret H. Beardsley
1956–1958 Sarah J. Hill
1958–1968 Roy A. Seely
1968–1971 Charles M. Good
1971–1976 John E. Bortle
1976–1977 George Fortier
Photoelectric Photometry 1955–1966 Lewis J. Boss
1966–1975 Arthur J. Stokes
1975–2003 Howard J. Landis
2003–2004 John P. Manker
2004–2006 AAVSO Headquarters
2006–2015 James H. Fox
2015- James M. Kay
Photographic 1936–1938 Lynn H. Matthias
1938–1941 J. L. Woods
1941–1942 A. E. Navez
1942–1949 Leon Campbell
1961–1963 Charles H. Giffen
1963–1964 Richard H. Davis
Red Variables 1936–1937 Leon Campbell
RR Lyrae 1968–2007 Marvin E. Baldwin
2007–2008 Gerard Samolyk
Satellite Tracking 1956–1957 R. Newton Mayall
Short Period Pulsator 2008–2011 David A. Hurdis; Gerard Samolyk
2011- Gerard Samolyk; Shawn Dvorak
Solar 1944–1954 Neal J. Heines
1955–1963 Harry L. Bondy
1963–1978 Casper H. Hossfield
1981–1984 Robert B. Ammons
1984–1999 Peter O. Taylor
1999–2000 Elizabeth Stephenson
2000–2001 Joseph Lawrence
2001–2006 Carl E. Feehrer
2006–2010 Paul Mortfield
2010- Rodney Howe
Supernova Search 1988–2007 Rev. Robert O. Evans
2007– AAVSO Headquarters
Young Stellar Objects 2011- Michael Poxon