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 | DEBORAH L. HARRINGTON, Squar Milner Financial Services, LLC |
COUNCIL COMMISSIONER | JOHN NORMENT, Transactis |
SCOUT EXECUTIVE | PRESIDENT | RUSSELL ETZENHOUSER, Orange County Council, BSA |
VICE CHAIRMAN – EDUCATION ALLIANCES | DR. AL MIJARES, Orange County Dept. of Education |
VICE CHAIRMAN – EXPLORING | AL MURRAY, Political Consultant |
CO-VICE CHAIRS – FUNDRAISING & DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES | TERRY ADAMS, SA Recycling DANIEL HAY, Premier Girls Fastpitch, Inc. |
VICE CHAIRMAN – MARKETING | TOM LING, Advantage, Inc. |
VICE CHAIRMAN – MEMBERSHIP IMPACT | DENNIS COLE, Orange County Department of Education |
VICE CHAIRMAN – OPERATIONS | NATE ROSENBERG, The Broadband Group |
VICE CHAIRMAN – OUTDOOR ADVENTURES | STUART LOWE, TriVista |
VICE CHAIRMAN –STRATEGIC ALLIANCES | DENNIS HARDIN, Hardin Honda |
VICE CHAIRMAN – VOLUNTEER RELATIONS | STEVEN BRADLEY, EIS (ret.) |
COUNCIL TREASURER | PETER REYNOLDS, Certified Public Accountant |
PAST CHAIRMAN
MARK ENGSTROM, Deloitte & Touche LLP
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 Robert Batman Greg Beck Steven Bradley Ron Cassell Dennis Cole Brad Comp Romeo Curry Kevin Elliot Barney Ellis-Perry
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Mark Engstrom
Robert Friedman Victoria Gray Dennis Hardin Deborah L. Harrington Dan Hay John Holland Dana Hopper John Hovanesian, M.D. Joe Koch Kathi Koll Ed Laird John Lerch Tom Ling |
Ralph Linzmeier
Stuart Lowe Steve Mensinger John Middleton Dr. Al Mijares Lan Quoc Nguyen Nicholas-Viet Nguyen John Nielsen John Norment Bob Olson Pat Posey
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Peter Reynolds
Nate Rosenberg Nathan O. Rosenberg David Schmid Dr. Stephen Skahen Helen Stainer, Ed. D. Michelle Steel Sasha Strauss Phil Stump Robert Thiergartner Mark Wille
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DISTRICT CHAIRS
Fred Brown
Mike Karn Kerry Lamperts Brian Lochrie |
Colleen Metzger
Charlie Osaki Tom Sales |
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 |