Board of Directors

Under authority delegated by the University's Board of Trustees, the Alumni Association's 35-member Board of Directors sets priorities for Stanford's alumni relations and for ongoing interaction between alumni and the University.

Meeting quarterly (except during the summer) and working through a committee system, the board oversees the alumni association's administration and programs, monitors budgets and longer-term program plans, and approves goals for the division.

The board appoints its own chair and vice chair. Ruthanne Mefford serves as chair; Carol Benz serves as vice chair. Howard E. Wolf, '80, vice president for alumni affairs and president of the Stanford Alumni Association, reports to President Hennessy.

Under the general direction of the board, volunteer committees of the Alumni Association also identify eight alumni to serve on the 38-member Stanford Board of Trustees, and nominate for various awards students and faculty members who merit special recognition for volunteer service to the University.

Board Members

• Chair: Ruthanne Mefford, '77, Sugar Land, TX


• Vice Chair: Carol Benz, '85, San Francisco, CA


• Vice President for Alumni Affairs and President, Stanford Alumni Association: Howard Wolf, '80



• Ashwin Adarkar, '86, MS '87, MBA '92, Pasadena, CA


• Jenny Allen, JD '07, Irvine, CA


• Fred Alvarez, '72, JD '75, Atherton, CA


• James Ambroise, '96, Brooklyn, NY


• Scott Arcenas, PhD '17, Stanford, CA


• Christopher Arriola, '92, San Jose, CA


• Donnalisa Parks Barnum, '81, Pacific Palisades, CA


• Greg Boardman, Stanford University


• Lorie Canchola Boyd, '94, Los Altos Hills, CA


• DeAngela Burns-Wallace, '96, Columbia, MO


• Markita Cooper, '79, Oviedo, FL


• Bernadine Chuck Fong, '66, AM '68, PhD '83, Los Altos, CA


• Rolanda Gaines, '94, Smyrna, GA


• Andrew Haden, '00, San Diego, CA


• Peri Hansen, '88, Los Angeles, CA


• Wallace Hawley, '60, Atherton, CA


• John Hennessy, Stanford University


• Andrew Howard, '98, Los Angeles, CA


• Aly Kassam-Remtulla, '98, Princeton, New Jersey


• Shane Kim, '85, Mercer Island, WA


• Mary Jean Montgomery, AM '73, Spencer, IA


• Bernard Muir, Stanford University


• Quan Phung, '92, Los Angeles, CA


• Nikhil Ramnarayan, '16, Stanford, CA


• Victoria Rogers, AB '83, San Marino, CA


• Lily Sarafan, '03, MS '03, Palo Alto, CA


• Srinija Srinivasan, '93, Palo Alto, CA


• Carol Scilacci Tanner, '75, New York, NY


• Jorge Tapias, '94, San Carlos, CA


• Tommy Vardell, '91, Pleasanton, CA


• Jeff Wachtel, '79, Stanford University


• Sheila Wang, MS '87, Singapore


• Jacob Young, '78, Mill Valley, CA


• Rob Zeaske, '95, Minneapolis, MN


• Giuseppe Zocco, MBA '94, Switzerland