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ACA International company history timeline

1939

Founded in 1939, ACA brings together third-party collection agencies, law firms, asset buying companies, creditors, and vendor affiliates, representing more than 230,000 industry employees.

1952

In 1952, the first woman to hold national office in ACA, Thelma Ray Osborne of San Francisco, is elected treasurer.

1956

In 1956, ACA’s Executive Secretary Glenn Sanberg resigns and his former assistant, John W. Johnson, is appointed executive secretary—the beginning of Johnson’s decades-long career at ACA.

1964

American Collectors Association Enterprises Inc., which would be wholly owned by ACA. ACA celebrates its 25th anniversary at its 1964 convention in New York City.

1991

The five-year plan, known as “Operation Progress,” contemplates membership advances through education and public affairs, and directs ACA to establish an education program to teach members new ways of doing business. It isn’t until 1991 that ACA installs its first female president, Linda Russell from Rawlins, Wyo.

2019

Collector magazine editor Anne Rosso May provides highlights of ACA’s history in the January 2019 feature article “An Abridged History of ACA.”

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