The Gladney Center has had only nine leaders in its rich 125-year history, five men and four women. Leaders of the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society and the Gladney Center include:
I.Z.T. Morris, 1887-1914;
His wife, Belle Morris, 1914-1920;
Roy Stockwell, 1920-1927;
Edna Gladney, 1927-1960;
Walter Delamarter, 1960-1963;
Ruby Lee Piester, 1963-1984;
Eleanor Tuck, 1984-1988;
Michael J. McMahon, 1988-2007; and
Frank Garrott, 2007 - present.