Past Presidents of the California Botanical Society

2020-              Amy Litt, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside
2017-2020      Susan Mazer, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
2014-2017      Mark S. Brunell, Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific
2010-2014      V. Thomas Parker, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
2005-2010      Dean Kelch, Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley
2003-2005      Michael Vasey, San Francisco State University
2000-2003      Bruce Baldwin, Jepson Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
1997-2000      R. John Little
1994-1997      Wayne R. Ferren, Jr., Herbarium, University of California, Santa Barbara
1993-1994      Peggy Fiedler, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
1992-1993      Barbara Ertter, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley
1991-1992      James R. Shevock, USDA-Forest Service, San Francisco
1990-1991      Thomas Duncan, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley
1989-1990      Robert W. Patterson, Biological Sciences Department, San Francisco State University
1988-1989      John L. Strother, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley
1987-1988      Dale McNeal, Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific
1986-1987      Frank Almeda, Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences
1985-1986      Charles F. Quibell, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University
1984-1985      Rolf W. Benseler, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Hayward
1983-1984      Isabelle Tavares, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1982-1983      Watson M. Laetsch, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1981-1982      Robert Ornduff, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1980-1981      Wayne Savage, Department of Biology, San Jose Sate University
1979-1980      Grady L. Webster, Department of Botany, University of California, Davis
1978-1979      Michael F. Baad, California State University, Sacramento
1977-1978      Winslow R. Briggs, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University
1976-1977      Dennis R. Parnell, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Hayward
1975-1976      John H. Thomas, Dudley Herbarium, Stanford University
1974-1975      Thomas C. Fuller, California Department of Agriculture, Sacramento
1973-1974      Paul C. Silva, University of California, Berkeley
1972-1973      Douglas Post, California State University, San Francisco
1971-1972      Lawrence R. Heckard, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1970-1971      Marion Cave, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1969-1970      Harry Thiers, Department of Ecology and Systematic Biology, San Francisco State College
1968-1969      Elizabeth McClintock, California Academy of Sciences
1967-1968      Carl W. Sharsmith, Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State College
1966-1967      Malcolm A. Nobs, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University
1965-1966      Annetta Carter, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1964-1965      G. Ledyard Stebbins, Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis
1963-1964      Herbert L. Mason, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1962-1963      Roxana S. Ferris, Dudley Herbarium, Stanford University
1961-1962      Baki Kasapligil, Department of Botany, Mills College
1960-1961      Herbert G. Baker, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1959-1960      James R. Sweeney, San Francisco State College
1958-1959      John M. Tucker, Department of Botany, University of California, Davis
1957-1958      Rimo Bacigalupi, Jepson Herbarium, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1956-1957      William M. Hiesey, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University
1955-1956      Lincoln Constance, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1954-1955      N. T. Mirov, California Forest and Range Experiment Station, University of California, Berkeley
1953-1954      William C. Steere, Stanford University
1952-1953      Milo S. Baker
1951-1952      George F. Papenfuss, University of California, Berkeley
1950-1951      LeRoy Abrams, Stanford University
1949-1950      Thomas H. Kearney, California Academy of Sciences
1948-1949      Adriance S. Foster, University of California, Berkeley
1947-1948      Howard E. McMinn
1946-1947      Palmer Stockwell, Institute of Forest Genetics, California Forest and Range Experiment Station
1945-1946      Lee Bonar, University of California, Berkeley
1944-1945      E. B. Copeland, University of California, Berkeley
1943-1944      H. S. Reed
1942-1943      A. R. Davis, University of California, Berkeley
1941-1942      Ernest B. Babcock, University of California, Berkeley
1940-1941      Ira L. Wiggins, Natural History Museum, Stanford University
1938-1940      Howard E. McMinn, Mills College
1937-1938      F. W. Foxworthy, Berkeley
1930-1937      George J. Peirce, Stanford University
1918-1929      Willis L. Jepson, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
1915-1918      P.B. Kennedy
1913-1915      Willis L. Jepson, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley