Liechty joined the staff in late 1939 as assistant and understudy to Holmes, and took over in March 1946 after the latter's death. He began his career as a teacher in schools for the sighted in the Asia and among Native Americans in Arizona. He went on to teach at the New York Institute for Education of the Blind [now the New York Institute for Special Education], where he acquired an orientation to blindness that made him receptive to the offer of a position as assistant editor of the Ziegler when Holmes decided it was time to groom his successor. Mr. Liechty retired in 1967 and died in 1987.

Arthur S. Keller, who followed Liechty as editor, moved into the post from the sales managership of the Aids and Appliances Division of the American Foundation for the Blind. He had been a government official, working in Egypt for the Foreign Broadcast Information Services of the United States, before joining the AFB research staff in 1959. A heart attack ended Keller's life in March 1977. Ernest G. Shaheen, a blind man with a strong musical talent, had been assistant editor since 1955 and was less than a year from retirement. He temporarily took over as editor until the appointment of Frances A. Koestler in January 1978. Mr. Shaheen died in February 1999.

In "A Letter from the Publisher" introducing the magazine's first woman editor, Helen Ziegler Steinkraus wrote: "Frances A. Koestler brings to the position an extensive background of editorial and journalistic experience as well as exceptional familiarity with the world of blindness. Her work in this field had included authorship of The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in the United States, which received the first Bledsoe Award from the American Association of Workers for the Blind as a major contribution to the literature. Earlier she was editor of The COMSTAC Report, which defined standards for services in work for the blind and led to the establishment of the National Accreditation Council. Mrs. Koestler has also served as consultant to the Industrial Home for the Blind and the Jewish Guild for the Blind and is the author of several hundred popular and professional magazine articles, books and pamphlets." Mrs. Koestler was a fine wordsmith and a first-class Scrabble player.

Mrs. Koestler retired in 1984, but continued to write a monthly column, "Frances Koestler's Journal," until 1988, and remained in close contact with the magazine until her death in February 1992.

Michael Mellor succeeded Mrs. Koestler as editor. Previously the assistant director of the Publications Department at the American Foundation for the Blind, Mr. Mellor brought a wealth of experience and a broad range of interests to the editorship. Before joining AFB in 1976, he had been a factory worker, radio mechanic in the British Royal Air Force, teacher, market research analyst, encyclopedia editor and magazine editor. He has an M.A. in the history of technology, and has worked in London as well as New York. After 18 years at the helm, Mr. Mellor retired at the end of 2002 to write a biography of Louis Braille.

The current editor is Gregory Evanina, an employee of the magazine since 1991. A native of southwestern Pennsylvania, Mr. Evanina has degrees in rhetoric and communication, and in journalism. Before joining the Ziegler, he held a variety of positions in the communications industry, including writing news stories for print and broadcast outlets, as well as handling public relations duties for such diverse organizations as a Shakespeare festival, a university sports information office, and a school for blind children, where his interest in blindness developed.