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Past Chairs of the Business Law

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Tenure

Chair

City

2016-2017

Jim Hill

San Diego

2015-2016

Robert Harris

Santa Clara

2014-2015

Robert Hawn

San Jose

2013-2014

Charles McKee

Sherman Oaks

2012-2013

James P. Menton

Los Angeles

2011-2012

Donna Parkinson

Sacramento

2010-2011

Mark E. Porter

San Francisco

2009-2010

Paul J. Pascuzzi

Sacramento

2008-2009

Peter C. Bronson

Sacramento

2007-2008

Carol K. Lucas

Los Angeles

2006-2007

Neil J. Wertlieb

Los Angeles

2005-2006

Mark A. Moore

Irvine

2004-2005

Suzanne Graeser

Palo Alto

2003-2004

Charles L. Crouch, III

Santa Monica

2002-2003

Timothy Hoxie

San Francisco

2001-2002

Edith Warkentine

Temecula

2000-2001

Twila L. Foster

San Francisco

1999-2000

Ann Yvonne Walker

Palo Alto

1998-1999

Gordon T. Yamate

San Jose

1997-1998

Marie F. Hogan

San Francisco

1996-1997

Sue L. Frauens

Los Angeles

1995-1996

Curtis C. Sproul

Sacramento

1994-1995

Steven O . Weise

Los Angeles

1993-1994

Roland E. Brandel

San Francisco

1992-1993

Jeffrey S. Turner

Los Angeles

1991-1992

Richard N . Frasch

San Francisco

1990-1991

John B. Power

Los Angeles

1989-1990

A. John Murphy, Jr.

San Francisco

1988-1989

Susan Cooper Philpot

San Francisco

1987-1988

Teresa M . St. Clair

Los Angeles

1986-1987

Herbert Kraus

Los Angeles

1984-1985

Robert E. Sullivan

San Francisco

1983-1984

Donald P. Newell

San Diego

1982-1983

Knox M. Cologne III

Los Angeles

1981-1982

William M. Burke

Los Angeles

1980-1981

Maryellen Cattani Herringer

San Francisco

1979-1980

Ronald S. Orr

Los Angeles

1978-1979

Harold Marsh, Jr.

Los Angeles

1977-1978

Carl Leonard

San Francisco

 

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