Under the leadership of a volunteer board made up of Orange County’s top business and community leaders, the Orange County Council is the gold standard for non-profits in programmatic and financial strength.
OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
| CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD | MARK ENGSTROM, Deloitte & Touche LLP |
| COUNCIL COMMISSIONER | JOHN NORMENT, Transactis |
| EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR | DEBORAH HARRINGTON, First Bank |
| SCOUT EXECUTIVE | PRESIDENT | RUSSELL ETZENHOUSER, Orange County Council, BSA |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – EDUCATION ALLIANCES | DR. AL MIJARES, Orange County Dept. of Education |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – EXPLORING | PATRICK BRENDEN, City Councilman |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – FUNDRAISING & DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES | TERRY ADAMS, SA Recycling |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – MARKETING | TOM LING, Advantage, Inc. |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – MEMBERSHIP IMPACT | JESSICA STARBUCK, Consultant |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – OPERATIONS | NATE ROSENBERG, The Broadband Group |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – OUTDOOR ADVENTURES | WILLIAM BAKER, Baker & Baker |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – STEM | STUART LOWE, TriVista |
| VICE CHAIRMAN –STRATEGIC ALLIANCES | DENNIS HARDIN, Hardin Honda |
| VICE CHAIRMAN – VOLUNTEER RELATIONS | STEVEN BRADLEY, EIS (ret.) |
| COUNCIL TREASURER | JANINE P. DUMONTELLE, Chapman University |
PAST CHAIRMAN
| DR. JOHN HOVANESIAN, Harvard Eye Associates
ROBERT THIERGARTNER, Chief Operating Officer of Davis Partners, LLC ROBERT NEAL, Hager Pacific Properties NATHAN O. ROSENBERG, Insigniam Performance DAVID HIRZ, Smart & Final, LLC |
DAVID JANES, James Capital Partners
PARKER KENNEDY, First American Title MIKE HARRISON, Trico Realty ED LAIRD, Laird Coatings Corp. GEORGE ARGYROS, Arnel & Affiliates |
COUNCIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
| Drew Adams
Terry Adams Alan Airth Robert AndersonSchoepe Lisa Argyros William Baker Don Barnes Robert Batman Greg Beck Allen Boerner Mark Boud Steven Bradley David Braun Patrick Brenden Ron Cassell
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Brad Comp
Ron Draper Janine P. DuMontelle Kevin Elliot Barney Ellis-Perry Mark Engstrom Robert Friedman Victoria Gray Dennis Hardin Deborah Harrington Dan Hay Dave Hirz Peter Hitch John Hovanesian, M.D. Pat Jackson David Janes, Sr. Joe Koch
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Kathi Koll
Ed Laird John Lerch Tom Ling Ralph Linzmeier Stuart Lowe John Middleton Dr. Al Mijares Lan Quoc Nguyen Nicholas-Viet Nguyen John Nielsen John Norment Bob Olson Pat Posey Dennis Percell Jim Righeimer
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Nathan O. Rosenberg
Frank Rubino, M.D. David Schmid Stephen Skahen Jeff Snow Helen Stainer, Ed. D. Jessica Starbuck Michelle Steel Sasha Strauss Robert Thiergartner Mark Wille
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PAST COUNCIL CHAIRMAN
| COUNCIL CHAIRMEN | CHAIRMAN TENURE | |
| ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL | ||
| Col. M.B. Wellington | 1920-21 | |
| D. Eyman Huff | 1922-23 | |
| G. William Finch | 1923-25 | |
| Horace Van Dien | 1926 | |
| Emerson Marks | 1927-28 | |
| Col. M.B. Wellington | 1929-31 | |
| Elmer Steffensen | 1932 | |
| Harold Keirsey | 1933-34 | |
| Col. M.B. Wellington | 1934-39 | |
| Kenneth Morrison | 1940-41 | |
| Clifford Allen | 1942 | |
| Vernon Langenbeck | 1943 | |
| ORANGE EMPIRE AREA COUNCIL |
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| Warren Hillyard | 1944 | |
| James Merigold | 1945-48 | |
| Kenneth Morrison | 1949-50 | |
| James Gubbins | 1951-53 | |
| Bob Fernandez | 1954 | |
| E.C. (Al) Missildine | 1955-56 | |
| O.W. (Dick) Richard | 1957-58 | |
| Karl Lynn Davis | 1959-60 | |
| Joseph Long | 1961-63 | |
| Dr. Richard Kendall | 1964-65 | |
| Robert McCurdy | 1966 | |
| Milford Dahl | 1967-68 | |
| W. Ed Crane | 1969-70 | |
| George Hoag, II | 1971-72 | |
| NOTHERN ORANGE COUNTY/NORTH ORANGE COUNCIL |
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| L.E. (Tex) Middleton | 1944 | |
| Elmer Steffensen | 1945-46 | |
| Robert M. Seamans | 1947-48 | |
| J. Francis Addy | 1949-51 | |
| Harold Browning | 1952 | |
| Joseph Sowder | 1953-54 | |
| Kenneth Knutzen | 1955-56 | |
| Wayne Herbst | 1957-58 | |
| Claude Owens | 1959-60 | |
| R. Lee Luskey | 1961 | |
| Adolf Schoepe | 1962 | |
| William James | 1963 | |
| Paul Morgan | 1964 | |
| Dr. Merritt Seacord | 1965 | |
| Marshall McFie | 1966-67 | |
| Max Elaison | 1968 | |
| M. Roy Knauft, Jr. | 1969-70 | |
| S. Wayne Lynch | 1971 | |
| Henry Yabrof | 1972 | |
| ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL | ||
| George Hoag, II | 1972-73 | |
| Howard Bear | 1974-75 | |
| William Hood | 1976-77 | |
| James Maynard | 1978-79 | |
| H. Wallace Merryman | 1980-81 | |
| Richard Smith | 1982-83 | |
| Peter Kremer | 1984-85 | |
| Vern Curtis | 1986-87 | |
| Gen. William Lyon | 1988-89 | |
| George Argyros | 1990-91 | |
| Ronald Foell | 1992-93 | |
| Jack Linquist | 1994-95 | |
| Edwin Larid | 1996-98 | |
| Michael Harrison | 1999-00 | |
| Parker Kennedy | 2001-02 | |
| Stephen Scarborough | 2003-04 | |
| David Janes | 2005-06 | |
| David Hirz | 2007-08 | |
| Nathan Rosenberg | 2009 -11 | |
| Robert Neal | 2012 -13 | |
| Robert Thiergartner | 2014 -2015 | |
| John Hovanesian, M.D. | 2016 -2017 | |