ACBL Youngest Life Master

The ACBL Youngest Life Master is a record set by the youngest person to achieve the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) rank of Life Master. The requirements of this rank have been raised several times.

Records

ACBL Youngest Life Master

Year	Record Setter	Age
1939	John Crawford	23 years
1952	Richard Freeman	18 years 10 months 7 days
1961	Dianne Barton-Paine	18 years 12 days
1965	Kyle Larsen	15 years 11 months
1968	Joseph Livezey	15 years 5 months
1973	Bobby Levin	15 years 4 months
1975	Michael Freed	15 years 20 days
1976	Regina Barnes	14 years 11 months
1977	Steve Cochran	14 years 5 months 20 days
1980	Billy Hsieh	13 years 7 months 15 days
1981 (June)	Andrew Kaufman	13 years 4 months 15 days
1981 (September)	Doug Hsieh	11 years 10 months 4 days
1988	Sam Hirschman	11 years 9 months 5 days
1990	Joel Wooldridge	11 years 4 months 13 days
1994	Dan Hirschman	10 years 2 months 20 days
2006	Adam Kaplan	10 years 43 days
2009	Richard Jeng	9 years 6 months 12 days
2012	Zach Garrison	9 years 2 months 7 days
2020	Andrew Chen	8 years 3 days

ACBL Female Youngest Life Master

Year	Record Setter	Age
1961	Dianne Barton-Paine	18 years 12 days
1973	Connie McGinley	17 years 5 months
1976	Regina Barnes	14 years 11 months
1982	Adair Gellman	14 years 6 months 4 days
1982 (12 days later)	Tricia Thomas	14 years 26 days
1999	Meredith Beck	13 years 6 months 11 days