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San Diego Symphony Board of Directors

Officers

David R. Snyder, Esq.
Chair of the Board*

Harold W. Fuson Jr.
Immediate Past Chair*

Colette Carson Royston
Vice Chair*

Una Davis
Vice Chair*

David Bialis
Treasurer*

Linda Platt
Secretary*

Board Members

Michele Arthur
Tim Barelli
Lisa Behun*
Anthony C. Boganey, M.D., FACS
Julia R. Brown*
Ben G. Clay
Kathleen Davis*
Martha G. Dennis, Ph. D.
Phyllis Epstein*
Lisette Farrell
Karen Foster Silberman
Janet Gorrie
Dr. Nancy Hong

Board Members

Arlene Inch
Jerri-Ann Jacobs
Warren O. Kessler, M.D.*
Kris Kopensky
Deborah Pate
Alan Prohaska
Sherron Schuster
Marivi Shivers
Christopher D. "Kit" Sickels
Donald M. Slate*
Gloria Stone
Frank Vizcarra
Mitchell R. Woodbury*

*Executive Committee Member

San Diego Symphony Honorary Lifetime Directors

Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs
Joan K. Jacobs (1933-2024)
Warren O. Kessler, M.D.
Anne Francis Ratner (1911-2011)
Lawrence B. Robinson (d. 2021)
Herbert Solomon
Mitchell R. Woodbury

San Diego Symphony Foundation Board of Directors

Officers

Warren O. Kessler, M.D.
Chair

David R. Snyder, Esq.
Vice Chair

Sandra Levinson
Secretary

Mitchell R. Woodbury
Treasurer

Board Members

Eunice Bragais
Robert Caplan, Esq.
Harold W. Fuson Jr.
Martha Gilmer
Susan Mallory
Jeremy Pearl
Mark Stuart

Past Symphony Board Chairs

2021-23 Harold W. Fuson Jr.
2018-21 David R. Snyder, Esq.
2015-18 Warren O. Kessler, M.D.
2014-15 Shearn H. Platt
2011-14 Evelyn Olson Lamden
2009-11 Mitchell R. Woodbury
2008-09 Theresa J. Drew
2007-08 Steven R. Penhall
2005-07 Mitchell R. Woodbury
2004-05 Craig A. Schloss, Esq.
2003-04 John R. Queen
2001-03 Harold B. Dokmo Jr.
2000-01 Ben G. Clay
1998-00 Sandra Pay
1995-96 Elsie V. Weston
1994-95 Thomas Morgan
1993-94 David Dorne, Esq.
1989-93 Warren O. Kessler, M.D.
1988-89 Elsie V. Weston
1986-88 Herbert J. Solomon
1984-86 M.B. “Det” Merryman
1982-84 Louis F. Cumming
1980-82 David E. Porter

1978-80 Paul L. Stevens
1976-78 Laurie H. Waddy
1974-76 William N. Jenkins, Esq.
1971-74 L. Thomas Halverstadt
1970-71 Simon Reznikoff
1969-70 Robert J. Sullivan
1968-69 Arthur S. Johnson
1966-68 Michael Ibs Gonzalez, Esq.
1964-66 Philip M. Klauber
1963-64 Oliver B. James Jr.
1961-63 J. Dallas Clark
1960-61 Fielder K. Lutes
1959-60 Dr. G. Burch Mehlin
1956-58 Admiral Wilder D. Baker
1953-56 Mrs. Fred G. Goss
1952-53 Donald A. Stewart
1940-42 Donald B. Smith
1938-39 Mrs. William H. Porterfield
1934-37 Mrs. Marshall O. Terry
1930-33 Mouney C. Pfefferkorn
1928-29 Willett S. Dorland
1927 Ed H. Clay