* = former Chair of the Board of Trustees
| FORMER TRUSTEE | TERM |
| Lucille S. Abrahamson | 1988-1999 |
| Andy Ballard* | 2008-2018 |
| Ophelia B. Basgal* | 2013-2022 |
| Peter H. Behr | 1980-1990 |
| Clark Beise* | 1963-1975 |
| Hamilton W. Budge | 1975-1984 |
| Allen L. Chickering Jr. | 1957-1960 |
| A. W. Clausen | 1976-1980 |
| Gay Plair Cobb | 1998-2008 |
| Christian deGuigne III | 1960-1969 |
| Stephanie DiMarco | 2001-2011 |
| Bob Friedman* | 2015-2025 |
| David Friedman* | 2003-2014 |
| W. P. Fuller Jr. | 1948-1961 |
| Herman E. Gallegos | 1989-1993 |
| Rhoda H. Goldman* | 1974-1984 |
| Farnham P. Griffiths | 1948-1955 |
| Peter E. Haas Jr. | 1996-2005 |
| Peter E. Haas Sr.* | 1984-1994 |
| Ira D. Hall Jr. | 1971-1976 |
| Robert C. Harris* | 1975-1985 |
| Charlene Harvey | 2003-2013 |
| F. Warren Hellman* | 1994-2005 |
| James H. Herbert II | 2005-2007 |
| William R. Hewlett | 1962-1970 |
| James Hormel | 2002-2012 |
| Leslie P. Hume | 1994-2005 |
| John F. Kilmartin | 1988-1992 |
| Leonard E. Kingsley* | 1986-1996 |
| Daniel E. Koshland* | 1948-1974 |
| Joan F. Lane | 1984-1992 |
| Tatwina Lee* | 2003-2013 |
| Mrs. Benjamin H. Lehman | 1952-1959 |
| Rolland C. Lowe, M.D. | 1993-2003 |
| Stephanie MacColl | 1992-2002 |
| Richard B. Madden | 1981-1988 |
| Robert C. Maynard | 1985-1988 |
| Edward H. McDermott | 2012-2018 |
| Harold R. McKinnon | 1948-1952 |
| Mrs. Alfred McLaughlin | 1948-1968 |
| Marcela Medina | 2005-2011 |
| Susan S. Metcalf Robertson* | 1979-1988 |
| Hugo Morales | 2002-2012 |
| John W. Murray | 2005-2015 |
| Kurt C. Organista, Ph.D. | 2009-2018 |
| William H. Orrick Jr.* | 1965-1974 |
| Charles J. Patterson* | 1976-1986 |
| T.S. Petersen | 1948-1957 |
| Eugene M. Prince | 1956-1965 |
| Duncan Robertson | 2012-2023 |
| William M. Roth | 1960-1963 |
| Sam Ruiz | 2018-2022 |
| Helen Crocker Russell* | 1948-1968 |
| Ted J. Saenger* | 1991-2001 |
| Peggy Saika | 2009-2016 |
| David J. Sanchez Jr., Ph.D. | 1993-2003 |
| Lateefah Simon | 2023-2024 |
| Emmett G. Solomon* | 1966-1976 |
| Sarah E. Stein | 2008-2018 |
| Gladys Thacher | 1998-2008 |
| Brooks Walker Jr.* | 1970-1980 |
| Kimberly Wicoff | 2015-2024 |
| Mary Lee Widener* | 1988-1998 |
| Sheryl Wong* | 2012-2022 |