Past Forum Chairs

Former Chairs, 1965 - Present

Year	Chair	Association
1965-66	Ted Harpainter
1967	Mickey Hoag
1968	Bill Owen
1969	Pasco Balzarini
1970	Lionel McCormick
1971	Dave Cox
1972	Manual Pagan
1973	Scott Essen
1974	Jim Sugai	Town of Los Gatos
1975	George Litton	City of Union City
1976	Dan Freitas	City of Livermore
1977	John Chamberlain	City of Walnut Creek
1978	Roy Swanson	City of Saratoga
1979	John Hoffman	City of Burlingame
1980	Tony Acosta	City of Oakland
1981	Rich Langevin	City of Newark
1982	Rich Quadri	City of Burlingame
1983	Herb Fong	Stanford University
1984	Leo Levesque	City of Fremont
1985	Harold Jones	City of Petaluma
1986	Rick Sealana	City of Union City
1987	Phil Evans	San Francisco State University
1988	Dean Nisson
1989	Ken DeSilva	City of Antioch
1990	Darrell Ledford	City of Livermore
1991	Deborah Ellis, M.S.	Consulting Arborist & Horticulturalist
1992	Phil Evans	San Francisco State University
1994	John Mendoza	City of Santa Clara
1995	Ken De Silva	City of Pleasanton
1996	Jim Connor (till 8/96)
	Jim Brandenburg	City of Livermore
1997	Jim Brandenburg	City of Livermore
1998	Bill Gardner	City of Hayward
1999	Larry Laquinto	City of Sunnyvale
	John Laquinto	City of Los Gatos
2000	Gordon Mann	City of Redwood City
2001	Ed Murdock	City of Livermore
2002	Eric Willyerd	City of Hayward
2003	Jack Kincaid	Repcor Inc.
2004	Michael Santos	HortScience Inc.
2005	Carol Randisi	City of Milpitas
2006	Ray Morneau	Mountain View
2007	Dorothy Abeyta	City of San Jose
2008	Chris Hughes	PG&E
2009	Stephen Pree	UC Berkeley RSSP Grounds
2010	Carol Randisi	HortScience, Inc
	Ken De Silva	MCE/City of Dublin
2011	Deanne Ecklund	City of Palo Alto/HortScience, Inc
	Igor Lacan	University of California
2012	Elizabeth Lanham	City of San Jose
	John Leffingwell	HortScience, Inc
2013
2014	Nelson Kirk	City of Union City
		City of San Jose
2015	Jennifer Tso	Traverso Tree Service
	Maryellen Bell	Irvine Company
2016	Jennifer Tso	Traverso Tree Service
	Rich Langevin