Board of Trustees

As a private corporation, USC is governed by a board of trustees which has approximately 50 voting members. The board is a self-perpetuating body, electing one-fifth of its members each year for a five-year term of office.

Voting Members

Wallis Annenberg
Vice President, Annenberg Foundation

Gale K. Bensussen
Coral Street Partners

Charles Bolden, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer, JACKandPANTHER LLC

Joseph M. Boskovich
Vice Chairman, Aletheia Research and Management, Inc.

Gregory P. Brakovich
Chief Executive Officer, KBS Capital Markets Group

Alexander L. Cappello
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cappello Group, Inc.

Rick J. Caruso
President and Chief Executive Officer, Caruso Affiliated

Alan I. Casden
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Casden Properties LLC

Ronnie C. Chan
Chairman, Hang Lung Group Limited and Hang Lung Properties Limited

Yang Ho Cho
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Korean Air

Frank H. Cruz
President, Cruz & Associates

David H. Dornsife
Chairman of the Board, The Herrick Corporation

Michele Dedeaux Engemann
Community Leader

Daniel J. Epstein
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ConAm Management Corporation

Stanley P. Gold (Chairman)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Shamrock Holdings, Inc.

Patrick C. Haden
General Partner, Riordan, Lewis & Haden

Ming Hsieh
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Cogent, Inc.

B. Wayne Hughes, Sr.
Chairman, Public Storage, Inc.

Ray R. Irani
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Suzanne Nora Johnson
Senior Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Bruce E. Karatz
Avondale Investments LLC

Lydia H. Kennard
Former Executive Director, Los Angeles World Airports

John F. King
President and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), The Weingart Center

John Kusmiersky
President, The Brickstone Companies

Daniel D. Lane
Chairman, Lane/Kuhn Pacific, Inc.

David L. Lee
Managing General Partner, Clarity Partners

Mónica C. Lozano
Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, La Opinión

Kathleen L. McCarthy
Chairperson, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation

John Mork
Chief Executive Officer, Energy Corporation of America

Jerry W. Neely
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Smith International, Inc.

Harlyne Norris
Trustee, Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation

Joan A. Payden
President and Chief Executive Officer, Payden & Rygel

Jane Hoffman Popovich
Vice President, Hoffman Properties

Blake Quinn
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quinn Group, Inc.

Bruce M. Ramer
Partner, Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown

Lorna Y. Reed
Community Leader

Linda Johnson Rice
President and Executive Officer, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.

Edward P. Roski, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Majestic Realty Company

Barbara J. Rossier
President, Rossier Enterprises

Steven B. Sample
President, University of Southern California

William J. Schoen
Chairman of the Board, Health Management Associates, Inc.

Kevin W. Sharer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Amgen

William E. B. Siart
Chairman, Excellent Education Development

Robert H. Smith
Robert H. Smith Investments and Consulting

Jeffrey H. Smulyan
Chairman of the Board, Emmis Communications

Glenn A. Sonnenberg
President, Legg Mason Real Estate Investors, Inc.

Steven Spielberg
Motion Picture Producer and Director, DreamWorks SKG

Mark A. Stevens
Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital

Ronald D. Sugar
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Ratan N. Tata
Chairman, Tata Sons Limited

Ronald N. Tutor
President and Chief Executive Officer, Tutor-Saliba Corporation

Andrew J. Viterbi
President, Viterbi Group, LLC

Willis B. Wood, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Pacific Enterprises


Life Trustees

George N. Boone
President, Boone Foundation

Malcolm R. Currie
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Hughes Aircraft Company

Montgomery R. Fisher
President, Montgomery Ross Fisher, Inc.

Gavin S. Herbert
Chairman Emeritus, Allergan Inc.

William M. Keck II
President, Coalinga Corporation

Herbert G. Klein
Vice President and Editor-in-Chief (Retired), Copley Newspapers

Kenneth Leventhal
Chairman Emeritus, E & Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group

William Lyon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, William Lyon Homes

Alfred E. Mann
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Bionics Corporation

Gordon S. Marshall
Chairman of the Board (Retired), Marshall Industries

Toshiaki Ogasawara
Chairman and Publisher, The Japan Times

J. Douglas Pardee
Chairman of the Board Emeritus, Pardee Construction Company

Frank Price
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Price Entertainment Inc.

Allen E. Puckett
Chairman Emeritus, Hughes Aircraft Company

Virginia M. Ramo
Co-Founder, The Ramo Foundation

Carl E. Reichardt
Chairman of the Board (Retired), Wells Fargo Bank

Forrest N. Shumway
Vice Chairman (Retired), Allied-Signal Corporation

Richard J. Stegemeier
Chairman Emeritus, Unocal Corporation

David S. Tappan, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Fluor Corporation

Peter V. Ueberroth
Contrarian Group, Inc.

Raymond A. Watt
Chairman of the Board, Watt Industries, Inc.

Gin D. Wong
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gin Wong Associates


Trustee Emeritus

John R. Hubbard
President Emeritus, University of Southern California


Honorary Trustees

Verna B. Dauterive
Helene Galen
Merwyn C. Gill
Katherine B. Loker
Flora Laney Thornton
Carmen H. Warschaw