Club Leadership

Board, Officers, Committee Chairs

2023-2024

Flag Officers
Commodore, Charles Griffey
Vice Commodore, Madonna Breen
Rear Commodore, Jack Cronan

Line Officers
Fleet Captain, Greg Way
Secretary, Denise Robinson
Treasurer, Juliane Graham
Measurer, Marilyn Eiland

Trustees
John Cutler               Megan Larson
Murphy Graham       Traci McCready
Sarah Hampton        Nick Moore
Tim Johnson            Trey Perdue

Honorary Officers
Fleet Historian, P/C Ginny Garrett
Fleet Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Linda Christians
Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Adolph Mares

     Committee Chairs & Other Contacts

Blue Gavel
P/C Jim Orchid
By-Laws
P/C Tony Nunes
Compensation & Benefits
Kay Snider
Education
Sarah Hampton
Entertainment
Debbie Cardenas
Harbor Committee
Aaron Barr
Heritage & Standards
Sandra Baldridge
House & Grounds
John Cutler

Ladies Association
Becky Peter
Membership
Murphy Graham
Memorial Fund
Mary Haglund
Midshipmen
Megan Larson / Stuart & Meghan Humphries
Yachting Committee
Nick Moore
Race & Regatta
Park Tupper
RASA
P/C Brad Larson
Ragnots
Cheyl Perdue
WSA
Erica Doerner

Commodores Of the Houston Yacht Club

  • Dan E. Kennedy (1898-1904)
  • Howard E. Gray (1905)
  • John Henry Kirby (1905 – Honorary)
  • Thomas J. Anderson (1906)
  • George L. Glass (1907-1909)
  • John S. Bonner (1909 – Honorary, 1917, 1919, 1927-1934)
  • Bryan Heard (1909 – Honorary)
  • Frank Amim (1910-1911)
  • B.J. Still (1910 – Honorary)
  • W.E. Humphreville (1912-1913)
  • C.G. Pillot (1914-1916)
  • Sam Streetman (1918)
  • Robert A. Bond (1920)
  • W.T. Glass (1921)
  • Henry Falk (1922-1923)
  • Norman Pillot (1922)
  • O.H. Carlisle (1923-1926)
  • W.E. Hamilton (1924-1925, 1938-1939)
  • E.L. Crain (1924)
  • J.W. Weatherford (1926)
  • J.H Tallichet (1935-1936)
  • Harry Hilliard (1937)
  • E.M. Funkhouser (1940-1941)
  • Donald Lee (1942)
  • Duncan Neblett (1943-44)
  • Roy Allison (1945)
  • Tyra Nelson Tynes (1946)
  • W. Howard Lee (1947-48)
  • A.C. Felt (1949-1950)
  • Paul Courtney (1951-1952)
  • Charles Markle Knipe (1953-1954)
  • Charles M. Smythe (1955-1956)
  • Louis F. Bonner (1957-1958)
  • Bill Parker (1957 – Honorary)
  • Julius S. Gissel (1959 – Honorary)
  • Lorne Van Stone (1959-1960)
  • George Allen (1961-1962)
  • G.A. Mabry (1963)
  • Stephen Brown (1964)
  • A.S. Barada Jr. (1965)
  • William O. Bartle (1966)
  • E.M. Fontaine (1967-1968)
  • Tom H. Crawford (1969)
  • Hobson Carter (1970)
  • Edgar W. Kimball (1971)
  • Tynes Sparks (1972)
  • Henry Westerlund (1973-1974)
  • Clark G. Thompson (1975)
  • Robert M. Middleton (1976)
  • Ed DeJon (1977)
  • E. Lowell Holmes (1978)
  • Ralph Atmar (1979)
  • Ed Bluestein, Jr. (1980)
  • Dean Snider (1981, 1988)
  • William O. Strong, Jr. (1982)
  • Bill L. Helm (1983)
  • James Tichenor (1984)
  • Paul Berner (1985)
  • Walter Springall (1986)
  • Marcus Lamkin (1987
  • Jerrold E. Landon (1989)
  • John W. Focke (1990)
  • Ned Van Maanen (1991)
  • Hank Arnold (1991 – Honorary)
  • Per Huffeldt (1992)
  • John McMahan (1993)
  • Rudy Roof (1994)
  • Joe R. Deese (1995)
  • Raoul Beasley (1996 – Honorary)
  • Charles M. Smythe, Jr. (1996)
  • Neil H. Akkerman (1997)
  • Michael A. "Tony" Nunes (1998)
  • Ginny Garrett (1999)
  • George Perdue (2000)
  • Geoffrey Goddard (2001)
  • Charles O. Buckner (2002)
  • Thomas O. Deen (2003)
  • David Haglund (2004)
  • R.B "By" Baldridge III (2005)
  • Dick Hanneman (2006 – Honorary)
  • James Liston (2006)
  • Bradford Larson (2007)
  • John Nicholson (2008)
  • Michael G. Bordelon (2009)
  • Cheryl Thomas (2010)
  • R.B "By" Baldridge III (2011)
  • Pat Gibson (2012)
  • Bob Wright (2013)
  • Nancy Edmonson (2014)
  • Robert Williams (2015)
  • Gordie Keenan (2016)
  • Steve Gillett (2017)
  • Dora Sam Akkerman (Honorary) 
  • Jack Yoes (2018)
  • John Cardenas (2019)
  • Jim Orchid (2020)
  • Hon. John Peter (Honorary)
  • Robert Wells (2021)
  • Farley Fontenot (2022)
  • Ken Humphries (2023)
  • Charles Griffey (2024)