Board of Directors

Our Board

Our volunteer Board of Directors serve three-year terms for a maximum of two terms. The Victoria Foundation was created through an Act of the BC Legislature. As stipulated by the act, all new board members must be appointed by a majority of the Appointers. They include a judge of the Supreme Court sitting in Victoria, the Mayor of the City of Victoria, the President of the Victoria Medical Society and the President of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce.

Past board chairs

David Leeming (1936 – 1949)
Francis E. Winslow, O.B.E (1949 – 1957)
Robert H.B. Ker (1957 – 1966)
Donald J Lawson, Q.C. (1967 – 1972)
R.R. (Reg) Wilde (1972 – 1986)
Paddy D. Stewart (1986 – 1992)
Eric J. Clarke (1992 – 1994)

Howard E. Petch (1995 – 1998)
Maryla Waters (1999 – 2002)
Murray Farmer (2002 – 2003)
Ian Izard Q.C. (2004 – 2006)
R. Thomas Burley (2006 – 2007)
Chuck Burkett (2008 – 2009)
Steve McKerrell (2010 – 2011)

Special Advisors to the Board of Directors

The Victoria Foundation Board of Directors is supported by advisors, the Honorary Governors, committees and staff. The board has two special advisors that are invited to board meetings and provide input without voting privileges.