The Dexter Area Chamber of Commerce began in 1992 with 140 members.  During the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a Chamber of Commerce.  This evolved into the Business and Industry Council of Dexter and then into the present day Chamber with a membership of 260.  Many of the charter members of the first Chamber are still members.

The Chamber goes beyond the Village of Dexter limits encompassing the Dexter School District and more.  The Board of Directors is composed on nine members with an advisory staff from the Village of Dexter, Dexter Village Council, Dexter Historical Society, Dexter Schools, Dexter Senior Center, Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department and the Dexter Area Fire Department.

Mary Pnieswski and Richard Pasley served as Co-Presidents of the first Chamber in 1992.  Other Past-Presidents include Joe Scheuring, Mike Mulvihill, Paul Ganz, Karen Bentley, Don Socks, Paul Bishop, E.J.Gilbert, Steve Gergely, Patrick Sortor, Paula Palmer Burns and Matt LaFontaine.  Joe Nowak is the current President.

The Dexter Area Chamber of Commerce hosts the Annual Ice Cream Social, Apple Daze, Victorian Christmas, the Annual Golf Outing, Holiday Lighting, Christmas Eve Luminary Project, and most recently the Downtown Dexter Summer Series.  Dexter Daze is the oldest and largest event the Chamber hosts and organizes which initially started as a sidewalk sale by the downtown merchants some 20 years prior to the organization of the Dexter Daze Committee of the Chamber.