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
