Executive Director
Dr. Knox Mellon
California Missions Foundation
Riverside, California

Chairman
Mr. Stephen T. Hearst
Vice President/General Manager
The Hearst Corporation
San Francisco

Vice Chair
Ms. Kristina Foss
Director, Santa Barbara Mission Museum
Santa Barbara

Secretary
Dr. Edith L. Piness
President Emerita
California Historical Society

Treasurer
David L. Peri
President of Peri & Alvarado,
Certified Public Accountants,
Santa Barbara

Board Members

Mrs. Janet Bartel
Mission San Diego

Mr. David Belardes
Chief and Chairman,
Juañeno Band
of Mission Indians
San Juan Capistrano

Ms. Sandraline Cederwall
Cederwall Fine Art
San Francisco

Fr. Joseph Chinnici
Professor of History, Franciscan School of Theology
Berkeley

Mr. William Freed
Attorney at Law
Oceanside

L. Thomas Frye
Chief Curator Emeritus of History
Oakland Museum of California
Oakland

Laurence K. Gould
Attorney at Law
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Los Angeles

Robert L. Hoover, Ph.D.
Mission Archive/Library
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
San Luis Obispo

Ms. Carol Kenyon
Director, South Coast Fine Art
Conservation Center
Santa Barbara

Mr. James L. Lazarus, J.D.
Sr. Vice President,
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

Ms. Suzanne Lummis
Director, Los Angeles Poetry Festival
Los Angeles

Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D.
Director, Institute of Archaeology
California State University Monterey Bay
Seaside

Ms. Helen Nelson
Curator, Mission San Gabriel
San Gabriel

Tanya Rathbun Sorrell, M.A.
Architectural Historian,
LSA Associates, Inc., Riverside

Mr. Donn R. Schoenmann
San Francisco

Lawrence R. Tracy
President, CEO,
Aleph America Corporation, Reno, NV

Msgr. Francis J. Weber (Director Emeritus)
Author/Archivist
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Mission San Fernando, Rey de España
Mission Hills

Jack S. Williams, Ph.D.
Executive Director, The Center for Spanish
Colonial Archaeology
San Diego

Honorary Chairs

United States Senator Barbara Boxer

United States Senator Dianne Feinstein

Former California Governor Gray Davis

Former California Governor Pete Wilson

Former California Governor Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown

Former California Governor George Deukmejian

State Advisory Board

Mr. Maurice L. Bandy
President, Los Californianos
San Diego

Br. Robert Barbato
Capuchin College, St. Francis Friary
Washington, D.C.

Rose Marie Beebe, Ph.D.
Department of Modern Languages
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara

Ms. Anne Bolzoni
Fundraising Consultant
Bonita

Ms. Shelley H. Caron
Rancho Agua Hedionda
Carlsbad

Hon. William P. Clark
Partner, Clark, Cali & Negranti LLP
Paso Robles

Ms. Nancy Cline
Cline Cellars Winery
Sonoma

Mr. Bill Criswell
President, Criswell Associates
San Francisco

Iris H. W. Engstrand, Ph.D.
University of San Diego
San Diego

Ms. Maureen Everett
California Federation
of Women's Clubs
San Jose

Ms. Lora Finnegan
Freelance Writer
Menlo Park

 

Mr. Herbert E. Garcia
Society of California Pioneers
San Francisco

Mr. Emmett J. Giurlani
Attorney at Law
San Francisco

Ms. Eileen Hook
California Division of Tourism
Sacramento

Mr. Huell Howser
Executive Producer
California's Gold Series
Los Angeles

Mr. Ronald W. Koeper
Native Sons of the Golden West
San Francisco

Ms. Gabrielle Leonhard
Mission Olive Preservation Restoration
and Education Project
Napa

Ms. Beatrice Margain
Cultural Attaché
Consulate General of Mexico
San Diego

Mr. M. Michael Mathes
Santanita Del Llano
Plainview, TX

Ms. Estella Moreno
Native Daughters of
the Golden West
San Buenaventura

Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, USC
Los Angeles

Mr. Terry Ruscin
President/Creative Director
Terry Ruscin Advertising Inc.

Robert Senkewicz, Ph.D.
Department of History
Santa Clara University
San Jose

Russell K. Skowronek, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology &
Sociology, Santa Clara University
Santa Clara

Ms. Therese Truitt Whitcomb
Professor Emeritus
University of San Diego
San Diego

Mr. Rick Wilkerson
Conference of California Historical Societies,
University of the Pacific
Stockton

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