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The president of the Senate of Jordan is the presiding officer of the Senate of Jordan. The president is appointed by the king of Jordan by royal decree, and the term of the office is two years.

Below is a list of office-holders from 1947:

Name	Entered office	Left office	Notes
Tawfik Abu al-Huda	20 October 1947	30 May 1951
Ibrahim Hashem	1 September 1951	4 December 1956
Sa'id al-Mufti	4 December 1956	10 July 1963
Sameer al-Rifai	10 July 1963	1 November 1965
Sa'id al-Mufti	1 November 1965	23 November 1974
Bahjat Talhouni	1 December 1974	20 January 1983
Ahmed Abdul Karim Tarawneh	20 January 1983	11 January 1984
Ahmad al-Lawzi	12 January 1984	8 June 1997
Zaid al-Rifai	8 June 1997	17 December 2009
Taher Nashat al-Masri	17 December 2009	24 October 2013
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh	24 October 2013	25 October 2015
Faisal al-Fayez	25 October 2015	Incumbent

References

^ "Previous Councils - The Senate of Jordan". Senate of Jordan. 12 January 2019.
"رئاسة المجلس الحالي | مجلس الأعيان" (in Arabic). Senate.jo. Retrieved 2019-04-29.