Club Leadership

Board, Officers, Committee Chairs

2024-2025

Flag Officers
Commodore, Madonna Breen
Vice Commodore, Jack Cronan
Rear Commodore, Murphy Graham

Line Officers
Fleet Captain, Timothy Johnson
Secretary, Hector Rodriguez
Treasurer, Juliane Graham
Measurer, Park Tupper

Trustees
Wendy Burns-Ardolino          Nick Moore
John Cutler                               Trey Perdue
Sarah Hampton                        Denise Robinson
Megan Larson                          Zachary Scott

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

     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
Diane Kinnard
Membership
Megan Larson
Memorial Fund
Mary Haglund
Midshipmen
Megan Larson / Stuart & Meghan Humphries
Yachting Committee
Nick Moore
Race & Regatta
Park Tupper
RASA
P/C Brad Larson
Ragnots
Cheryl 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)