Past Presidents
Year Name Organization and Other Information
1953 Harry S. Schwartz Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1954 William O. Jones Stanford University
1955 Winton Pettibone Standard Oil Co. of California
1956 Helen Nelson California Department of Ind. Relations.
1957-1958 Phillis Beattie Basile U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1959 Charles Roumasset U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1960 Roy C. Cave San Francisco State University
1961 Ernest C. Olsen Bank of America
1962 William, Goldner University of California, Berkeley
1963 Margaret Thal-Lassen U.S. Bureau of Empl. Security
1964 John L. Stone C & H Sugar
1965 Gerald J. Bongard Pacific Telephone
1966 Ed. N. Smith U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1967 J. Howard Craven Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1968 Robert E. McCaughna Crown Zellerbach
1969 Leo G. Connolly California Department of Ind. Relations.
1970 Jonathan C. Royce Pacific Telephone
1971 Robert L. Orr U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1972 Stelios M. Andrew Pacific Gas & Electric
1973 Mildred Bareis Crown Zellerbach
1974 Joseph A. Wahed Wells Fargo Bank
1975 Milton A. Keenen U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1976 Adelle Foley Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1977 Walter J. Farrell Pacific Gas & Electric
1978 Louise C. Weitbrecht C & H Sugar
1979 Joe Doyle California Judicial Council
1980 Stephen C. Teigland U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1981-1982 H.M. Ardley Pacific Telephone (served 18 months as SFASA president)
1982-1983 John C. Varady Syntex Labs
1983-1984 Patrick G. Weber Wells Fargo Bank
1984-1985 Karen A. Jones California Division of Labor Stat and Res.
1985-1986 Nicholas P. Jewell University of California, Berkeley
1986-1987 Elizabeth S. King Consulting Statistician
1987-1988 Alvin D. Wiggins University of California, Davis
1988-1989 Abe Silvers
1989-1990 Florence Van Geem
1990-1991 Kelvin Lee
1991-1992 Dean Fearn California State University, Hayward
1992-1993 Mike Tarter Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
1993-1994 David L Kimble Principal Member Technical Staff, AT&T Labs
1994-1995 Rose Ray Principal Scientist, Exponent-Failure Analysis
1995-1996 Loren Schoof
1996-1997 Kathleen Lamborn Vice President 94-95, President-Elect 95-96 and President 96-97.
1997-1998 Mike Lock
1998-1999 Ying Lu Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
1999-2000 Ann Kalinowski
2000-2001 Jim Lenihan Statistical programmer
2002-2003 Ann Kalinowski
2003-2004 David Mould Predictive Analytics Scientist at MedeAnalytics
2005-2006. Ying Lu Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
2006-2007 Susan Stewart
2007-2008 Carol Francisco Vice President, Biostatistics and Clinical Data Management, Affymax, Inc
2008-2009 John Kornak Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of California, San Francisco
2009-2010 Kelly Fan Associate Professor of Statistics Calif. State Univ. East Bay
2010-2011 Lynn Eudey Associate Professor of Statistics Calif. State Univ. East Bay
2011-2012 Chris Barker Statistical Planning and Analysis Services, Inc.
2012-2013 Kit Fun Lau VitaPath Genetics, Foster City, CA
2013-2014 Clinton Brownley
2014-2015 Ruixiao Lu Genomic Health
2015-2016 Jing Huang
2016-2017 Xin Zhao MD PhD Director, Biostatistics
2017-2018 Kathy Zhang
2018-2019 Li Zhang Ph.D. (UCSF) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of California, San Francisco
2019-2020 Ron Yu Ph.D. Gilead Sciences, Senior Director, Biostatistics
2020-2021 Tao He Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University
2021-2022 Ray Lin Principal Statistical Scientist, Biostatistics, Genentech/Roche
2022-2023 Cristina Tortora Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Jose State University
2023-2024 Ling Shen Vir Biotechnology