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-- master list of all former Society Board members --
Here's a historical listing (alphabetical) . . .
Current Board members are:
Jean M. Case (chairman)
Katherine Bradley (vice-chairman)
Kevin J. Maroni (vice-chairman)
Brendan P. Bechtel
Afsaneh Beschloss
Kate E. Brandt
Angel Cabrera
John K. Delaney
Joseph DeSimone
Henry Ellenbogen
Evan G. Greenberg
Sandesh V. Kadur
Deborah Lehr
Claudia Madrazo
David S. Marriott
Strive Masiyiwa
Dina Powell McCormick
Mark C. Moore
Dambisa Moyo
Nancy E. Pfund
Frederick J. Ryan, Jr.
Rajiv Shah
Ellen Stofan
Jill Tiefenthaler
Anthony A. Williams
~ Hubbard Memorial Hall, first Society building (dedicated 1903) ~
HISTORICAL LIST OF BOARD MEMBERS --
* Board members who served as Society presidents (later, CEO), are in bold; anyone serving on the board who was one of the 33 Founders of the Society in 1888 are in italic (**not all 33 served on the Board).
Cleveland Abbe (1888-1890)
Joan Abrahamson (1999-2012)
Joe L. Allbritton (1987-2001)
William L. Allen (1995-2004)
Owen R. Anderson (1981-1994) (Vice Chairman 1984-1994)
Robert B. Anderson (1960-1963)
Dawn L. Arnall (2014)
H. H. Arnold (1939-1949)
O. P. Austin (1903-1932)
Wanda M. Austin (2012-2016)
Cyrus C. Babb (1894)
Marcus Baker (1888-1903)
John Russell Bartlett (1888)
R. N. Batchelder (1893)
Alexander Graham Bell (1898-1922)
Charles J. Bell (1888-1929)
Rogers Birnie, Jr. (1888-1891)
Henry F. Blount (1892-1917)
Thomas E. Bolger (1979-2002)
Michael R. Bonsignore (2004-2020)
Frank Borman (1976-2000)
Lewis M. Branscomb (1984-2001)
Robert L. Breeden (1984-1991)
Lyman J. Briggs (1933-1962)
Alfred H. Brooks (1905-1907)
J. Carter Brown (1978-2002)
Warren Earl Burger (1975-1992)
George K. Burgess (1930-1932)
Richard E. Byrd (1954-1956)
Leonard Carmichael (1957-1973)
Thomas H. Carroll (1964)
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1903-1911)
Colby M. Chester (1904-1932)
Martha E. Church (1990-2006)
Leo Otis Colbert (1939-1968)
Michael Collins (1982-2005)
Calvin Coolidge (1929-1932)
Frederick V. Coville (1897-1936)
C. W. Dabney, Jr. (1896-1897)
William H. Dall (1896-1899)
Jack Dangermond (2017-2021)
George Davidson (1900-1911)
William Morris Davis (1900-1905)
Charles G. Dawes (1925-1950)
David T. Day (1896-1899) (1902-1904)
Robert E. Doyle (1975-1983) (Vice Chairman 1981-1983)
Hugh L. Dryden (1951-1965)
George L. Dyer (1889)
John Joy Edson (1899-1935)
Alexandra Grosvenor Eller (2010-2022)
Lloyd H. Elliott (1969-1993) (Vice Chairman 1977-1993)
George M. Elsey (1978-1993)
Michela A. English (1992-1995)
Roger A. Enrico (2001-2015)
John M. Fahey, Jr. (1997-2015) (Chairman 2011-2015)
David Fairchild (1903-1954)
Franklin L. Fisher (1945-1953)
Robert V. Fleming (1930-1967)
John Foote (1924-1931)
Henry Gannett (1888-1914)
Wilbur E. Garrett (1982-1989)
Walter S. Gifford (1933-1950)
Grove Karl Gilbert (1891-1905)
James H. Gilliam, Jr. (1999-2003)
Daniel Coit Gilman (1901-1908)
Daniel S. Goldin (2003-2013)
George Brown Goode (1888-1891)
James Howard Gore (1905-1939)
William P.E. Graves (1990-1994)
Adolphus Washington Greely (1888-1935)
Crawford H. Greenewalt (1959-1977)
Gilbert H. Grosvenor (1905-1965) (Chairman 1954-1965)
Gilbert M. Grosvenor (1966-2014) (Chairman 1987-2010)
Melville Bell Grosvenor (1945-1975) (Chairman 1968-1975) (Chairman Emeritus 1976-1981)
Arthur B. Hanson (1968-1990)
Elisha Hanson (1937-1962)
William R. Harvey (2012-2016)
Caryl P. Haskins (1965-1983)
Edward Everett Hayden (1890-1898)
Alfred J. Hayre (1987-1991)
Angelo Heilprin (1902-1904)
A. J. Henry (1888-1911)
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1983-1998)
Jesse R. Hildebrand (1947-1951)
David J. Hill (1899-1902)
Russell Hinman (1902-1904)
Susan Hockfield (Sept-Nov 2012)
Nina Hoffman (1996-1998)
Jerome H. Holland (1978-1984)
Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1888-1897)
Charles Evans Hughes (1930-1948)
Carlisle H. Humelsine (1973-1988)
George W. Hutchison (1935-1944)
John Hyde (1892-1901)
John Jay Iselin (1987-2007)
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson; nee' Claudia Alto Baines (1974-1987)
Willard Drake Johnson (1888-1891)
Ernest Lester Jones (1922-1928)
Rudolph Kauffmann (1906-1927)
Samuel H. Kauffmann (1897-1905)
James C. Kautz (1994-2007)
Timothy T. Kelly (1991-1995) (2011-2012)
C. A. Kenaston (1889-1891)
George Kennan (1888-1889)
Charles F. Kettering (1937-1958)
Gary E. Knell (2013-2017)
Maria Elena Lagomasino (2007-2015)
John Oliver La Gorce (1920-1959) (Vice Chairman 1957-1959)
Emory S. Land (1943-1971)
Franklin K. Lane (1910-1921)
Curtis E. LeMay (1951-1985)
Leroy A. Lincoln (1939-1956)
Jane A. Lubchenco (2014-2021)
T. L. Macdonald (1910-1923)
H. Randolph Maddox (1952-1974)
J. Willard Marriott, Jr. (1987-2009)
George C. Marshall (1949-1959)
Stephen T. Mather (1922-1929)
William McChesney Martin, Jr. (1965-1981)
William John McGee (1891-1904)
Benjamin M. McKelway (1955-1974)
Floretta Dukes McKenzie (1987-2009)
Thomas W. McKnew (1949-1986) (Vice Chairman 1962-1965?) (Chairman 1966-1967) (Advisory Chairman 1968-1986) (Chairman Emeritus 1987-1991)
George Wallace Melville (1894)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1891-1894)
Clinton Hart Merriam (1888-1942)
Henry Mitchell (1888)
Willis L. Moore (1897-1910)
Nigel Morris (2013-2015)
J. Reginald Murphy (1994-2015) (Vice Chairman 1998-2010)
Walter K. Myers (1961-1967)
Frederick Haynes Newell (1892-1899)
Patrick F. Noonan (1990-2015)
Ernest E. Norris (1943-1957)
Simon Newton Dexter (S. N. D.) North (1904-1924)
Theodore W. Noyes (1928-1946)
Herbert Gouverneur Ogden (1888-1893) (1896-1899)
Dennis R. Patrick (1999-2002)
Raymond S. Patton (1930-1937)
John Barton Payne (1924-1934)
Melvin M. Payne (1959-1986) (Chairman 1976-1986) (Chairman Emeritus 1987-1991)
Robert E. Peary (1917-1920)
John J. Pershing (1928-1948)
John E. Pillsbury (1910-1919)
Gifford Pinchot (1898-1904)
William Bramwell Powell (1888-1902)
William V. Pratt (1933-1956)
Henry Smith Pritchett (1899-1900)
J.R. Proctor (1896)
George R. Putnam (1912-1953)
Peter H. Raven (2008-2018)
Nathaniel P. Reed (1988-2007)
William K. Reilly (1994-2005) (briefly emeritus in 2006) (2007-2012)
Floyd K. Richtmyer (1939)
Rozanne L. Ridgway (1993-2010)
Lyndon Rive (2018-2022)
Laurance S. Rockefeller (1958-1985)
Edward P. Roski, Jr. (2007-2021)
Israel Cook Russell (1901-1906)
Rollin Daniel Salisbury (1901-1909)
James R. Sasser (2000-2012)
B. Francis Saul II (1985-2015)
Robert C. Seamans, Jr. (1969-1993)
Gerd Schulte-Hillen (2000-2012)
Eliza Ruhumah Scidmore (1892-1906)
George Shiras, III (1912-1942)
Robert B. Sims (1996-1998)
George Otis Smith (1908-1943)
Grant Squires (1912-1928)
Joseph Stanley-Brown (1899-1900)
William Howard Taft (1916-1929)
Almon Harris Thompson (1888-1890)
Otto Hilgard Tittmann (1889-1890) (1902-1938)
Juan T. Trippe (1943-1976)
Paul B. Tylor (1991)
Mike Ulica (2018)
Frederick G. Vosburgh (1963-1979)
Ted Waitt (2009-2017)
James H. Wakelin, Jr. (1963-1986)
B. H. Warder (1891)
Earl Warren (1955-1974)
James E. Webb (1967-1980)
James Clark Welling (1888-1890)
Oscar Westover (1936-1938)
Alexander Wetmore (1933-1975)
Henry White (1914-1927)
J. B. Wight (1896-1897)
Edwin Willits (1892-1894)
John M. Wilson (1905-1919)
Lloyd B. Wilson (1943-1967)
Conrad L. Wirth (1957-1984)
William E. Wrather (1952-1963)
Louis B. Wright (1965-1974)
Tracy R. Wolstencroft (2008-2021) (Vice Chairman 2016-2021)
Note: Prior to 1920, the board was referred to as the Board of Managers. Prior to 1906, those serving as other officer roles in this time period are included in this list as having served on the board.
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