Board of Governors

Meet the Volunteer Leadership

The Board of Governors is the governing body of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. The leadership term of each governor begins on October 1.
Officers

Executive Committee

Ex officio

Ex Officio

Since 1931

Past presidents of the Beverly Hills Bar Association

  • Anthony D. Storm 2025–2026
  • Nadira T. Imam 2024–2025
  • Alexander Rufus-Isaacs 2023–2024
  • Malcolm McNeil 2022–2023
  • Anthony Ross 2021–2022
  • Adam Siegler 2020–2021
  • Michael R. Sohigian 2019–2020
  • LaVonne Lawson 2018–2019
  • Richard D. Kaplan 2017–2018
  • Howard S. Fisher 2016–2017
  • Howard S. Fredman 2015–2016
  • Linda E. Spiegel 2014–2015
  • Diane Karpman 2013–2014
  • John K. Rubiner 2012–2013
  • Lawrence H. Jacobson 2011–2012
  • Stephen L. Raucher 2010–2011
  • Marc J. Poster 2009–2010
  • Nancy Knupfer 2008–2009
  • Marc L. Sallus 2007–2008
  • Laurence R. Goldman 2006–2007
  • Cynthia F. Pasternak 2005–2006
  • Kenneth G. Petrulis 2004–2005
  • Marc R. Staenberg 2004
  • Stephen F. Rohde 2003–2004
  • Christopher T. Bradford 2002–2003
  • David R. Evans 2001–2002
  • Emily Shappell Edelman 2000–2001
  • Nicholas R. Allis 1999–2000
  • Linda Wight Mazur 1998–1999
  • John W. Patton, Jr. 1997–1998
  • Barry E. Shanley 1996–1997
  • Daniel G. McIntosh 1995–1996
  • J. Anthony Vittal 1994–1995
  • Dee Miller Siegel 1993–1994
  • Anthony H. Barash 1992–1993
  • David M. Shacter 1991–1992
  • Michael H. White 1990–1991
  • Kathryn A. Ballsun 1989–1990
  • Lawrence E. May 1988–1989
  • Leonard J. Meyberg, Jr. 1987–1988
  • James R. Andrews 1986–1987
  • Judith A. Gilbert 1985–1986
  • Peter M. Appleton 1984–1985
  • Adley M. Shulman 1983–1984
  • Sol Rosenthal 1982–1983
  • Herman S. Palarz 1981–1982
  • Sidney R. Rose 1980–1981
  • Dixon Q. Dern 1979–1980
  • Bert Z. Tigerman 1978–1979
  • Richard J. Kamins 1977–1978
  • Harry L. Usher 1976–1977
  • Norma G. Zarky 1975–1976
  • Edwin M. Rosendahl 1974–1975
  • Orlan S. Friedman 1973–1974
  • Walter L. M. Lorimer 1972–1973
  • Martin Gendel 1971–1972
  • Edward Rubin 1970–1971
  • Martin H. Webster 1969–1970
  • Lawrence E. Irell 1968–1969
  • Richard F. Igl 1967–1968
  • Daniel A. Weber 1966–1967
  • Stanley N. Gleis 1965–1966
  • I. H. Prinzmetal 1964–1965
  • William R. Jarnagin 1963–1964
  • Hon. Marvin A. Freeman 1962–1963
  • David B. Heyler 1961–1962
  • Louis M. Brown 1960–1961
  • Robert A. Neeb, Jr. 1959–1960
  • Hon. Lester Wm. Roth 1958–1959
  • Lee Combs 1957–1958
  • Guy E. Ward 1956–1957
  • George W. Cohen 1955–1956
  • G. Bentley Ryan 1954–1955
  • Gabriel Hoffenberg 1953–1954
  • Charles E. Quirollo 1951–1952
  • Kenneth A. Holland 1950–1951
  • Lon A. Brooks 1949–1950
  • Richard Maddox 1948–1949
  • James M. O’Brien 1947–1948
  • Harold L. Molone 1946–1947
  • Sanford I. Carter 1945–1946
  • Paul E. Schwab 1944–1945
  • Harold L. Loud 1943–1944
  • G. R. Dexter 1942–1943
  • Henry H. Draeger 1941–1942
  • Walter H. Robinson 1940–1941
  • James A. Houlahan 1939–1940
  • Gilbert F. Nelson 1938–1939
  • Charles J. Griffin 1937–1938
  • Samuel R. Enfield 1936–1937
  • A. Curtis Smith 1936
  • H. Edward Alton 1935–1936
  • Richard C. Waltz 1934–1935
  • Earnest E. Noon 1933–1934
  • Arthur L. Erb 1931–1933
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