
Executive Council
What is Executive Council and what does it do?
Executive Council shares primary responsibility for planning and directing the temporal affairs of the diocese with the bishop and the Standing Committee, as provided by the constitution and canons of the diocese and of The Episcopal Church. Council acts for the diocesan convention between its annual meetings to implement the programs, policies and budgets convention approved. Additionally, Council serves as the board of directors of the diocesan corporation, exercising, except where canonically restricted, all the fiduciary responsibilities and powers of such a board under California law governing religious corporations. In consultation with the Department of Finance and the treasurer, Council oversees the management of the operating fund and of investments (including real estate), and develops prudent policies and procedures governing the use of diocesan funds. The bishop is president of Council while the other members are elected to staggered three-year terms: two per deanery (one of whom must be lay), six at large by the Convention; the bishop has the right to appoint up to six members and the chancellor, treasurer, and secretary of the convention are ex officio members. Council officers are chair, vice chair, and secretary; we are elected by Council from among its elected members.
Contact Executive Council at: executivecouncil@diocal.org
Officers

Sherry Lund
Chair

The Rev. Kirsten Spalding
Vice Chair

Peter Fairfield
Secretary
Class of 2023

Jeanette Dinwiddie-Moore
Convention Representative
St. Paul’s Oakland

Sherry Lund
Convention Representative
Christ Church Portola Valley and Woodside

The Rev. Kirsten Spalding
Convention Representative
Church of the Nativity San Rafael

The Rev. Krista Fregoso
Contra Costa Representative
St. Paul’s Walnut Creek

Aidan Jobe Sea
Peninsula Representative
Transfiguration San Mateo

Steven R. Dupont-Kalani
San Francisco Representative
St. Mary’s San Francisco

Elaine Vallecillo-Miller
Southern Alameda Representative
St. James Fremont
Class of 2024

The Rev. David Erickson
Convention Representative
St. Mary’s, San Francisco
San Francisco Deanery

Bill Burrell
Marin Representative
St. Columba’s, Inverness
Marin Deanery

Peter Fairfield
Convention Representative
St. Aidan’s, San Francisco
San Francisco Deanery

The Rev. Bruce Morrow
Alameda County Representative
All Souls Berkeley
Alameda Deanery
Class of 2025

Carolyn George
Convention Representative
St. John’s Oakland

The Rev. Will Scott
Alameda Representative
Christ Episcopal Church Alameda

Jim Wiant
Contra Costa Representative
St. Anna’s Antioch

Vance Frost
Marin Representative
St. John’s Ross

The Rev. John Kirkley
San Francisco Representative
St. James Episcopal San Francisco
Bishop’s Appointees

Bruno Peguese
Class of 2024
St. Cyprian’s San Francisco
San Francisco Deanery

Edgar Woo
Class of 2024
Church of Our Savior Oakland
Alameda Deanery

Leigh Flesher
Class of 2025
Trinity Church Menlo Park
Ex-Officio Members


Lane Ringlee
Treasurer of the Diocese
St. Stephen’s Orinda

Christopher Hayes Esq
Chancellor
Grace Cathedral