Past Presidents & Executive Directors

NSPE-California Leadership (1948 to 2021)

Presidents

Year(s) of Service   Name
1948–1949   Arthur C. Bullen, Sr.
1949–1950   Earl N. Helm
1950–1951   John L .Trebilcock
1951–1952   Kenneth D. Harrington
1952–1953   George Zelhart
1953–1954   C.D. Allen
1954–1955   W.H.T. Holden
1955–1956   Fred M. Johnson
1956–1957   Paul Birmingham
1957–1958   Arthur C. Bullen, Jr.
1958–1959   Leo W. Ruth
1959–1960   Gordon S. Stiles
1960–1961   Willard A. Holt
1961–1962   Douglass R. Judd
1962–1963   Oliver E. Deatsch
1963–1964   Robert F. Rocco
1964–1965   Bertram H. Hirsch
1965–1966   Edward D. Hudson
1966–1967   Leroy Martin
1967–1968   Harold H. Strauss
1968–1969   Jack D. Todd
1969–1970   Glen W. Miller
1970–1971   Robert J. Kuntz
1971–1972   William F. Jones
1972–1973   Robert J. Kuntz
1973–1975   Leendert Schonewille
1975–1976   Harry N. Lalor
1976–1977   O. Glenn Wilson
1977–1978   L. Pierce Loberg
1978–1979   Edward M. Walker
1979–1980   Eugene C. Allen
1980–1981   Neil A. Norman
1981–1982   Charles J. Helin
1982–1983   Gilbert Verdugo
1983–1984   Lewis Neeb
1984–1985   Rameshwar Singh
1985–1987   Philip Syracopoulos
1987–1988   Alfred C. Ingersoll
1988–1989   Norman R. Bergrun
1989–1990   George Hanna, Jr.
1990–1991   James Palmer
1991–1992   Ronald F. Carducci
1992–1993   Russell Greenlaw
1993–1994   George Zinckgraf
1994–1995   John J. Troy
1995–1996   Paul Askelson
1996–1998   Floyd R. Summers
1998–2000   W. Clifford “Cliff” Ishii
2000–2001   Donald B. Clark
2001–2003   Samuel Grossman
2003–2005   Les Turnbeaugh
2005–2007   Frank Fong
2007–2009   Todd Stewart
2009–2011   Todd Stewart
2011–2013   Ken Discenza
2013–2015   Gary Laier
2015–2017   Nader Shareghi
2017–2019   Austin S. Lin
2019–2021   Mehdi Khalili

Chief Executive Officers / Executive Directors of NSPE-California

Year(s) of Service   Name

Prior Executive Directors (~1960s – 1989): Robert J. Kuntz, Carol Tower, George Hanna

1989 – 1996: Marti Kramer (as Executive Director)

1996 – 2017: Marti Kramer (as CEO)

2018: Gail Grimm

2018 – Present: Jeanne Marie Tokunaga

Photos of NSPE-California Historical Artifacts

NSPE-CA plaque

(Above) Photo of a plaque that NSPE-CA used to maintain of its past presidents (the plaque itself was a gift presented to the Society in 1970 from California past president Harold Strauss (1967–1968)

 
NSPE-CA plaque

A photo of NSPE-California's original charter from NSPE dated from January 21, 1949.