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Commission Through the Years

Commissioners, 1895-Present

Adams, Ira A. 1909-1917, 1925-1929

Andrews, Roger M. 1929-1930, 1933-1934, 1937-1938

Arnold, George T. 1895-1903

Bailey, John R. 1903-1909

Barbour, George H. 1897-1905

Bendit, Rachel 2019-2025

Bennett, Thomas G. 1931-1933

Boyd, Elizabeth Driscoll 2025-

Briggs, Walter O. 1915-1927

Brogan, Marcia 2015-2019

Brooks, Claude R. 1953-1957

Brown, L. Margaret 1991-1998

Brown, Marlee 2019-

Burleigh, Manferd 1936-1937, 1939-1942

Butzel, Leo M. 1909-1915

Cable, James F. 1947-1952

Cady, Burt D. 1919-1931

Callewaert, Mary 2013-2019

Carroll, T.C. 1954-1958

Cawthorne, Dennis O. 1991-2013

Chambers, George B. 1933-1935, 1937

Clark, William M. 1895-1899

Cleary, Gerald J. 1937-1938, 1941-1945, 1953

Coleman, Harry 1909-1917

Curtis, Eugene M. 1984-1989

Davey, Joseph F. 1973-1979

Deary, William 2013-2018

Dohany, J. Walter 1928-1931

Doud, Robert 1938

Downing, Neil 1959-1964

Doyle, Wilfird F. 1939-1947, 1947-1955, 1961-1985

Dunnigan, James P. 1949-1981

Edwards, C. L. 1935-1936

Ellmann, William M. 1979-1985

Fead, John W. 1925-1927

Ferris, Phelps F. 1917-1923

Ferry, Thomas W. 1895-1896

Fisher, Lawrence P. 1937-1939

Frohoff, Lori 2025-

Goodman, Barry J. 2007-2013

Green, Nino E. 1985-1991

Haggerty, John S. 1931-1933

Hagarty, Michael K. 1969

Hemmeter, John R. 1917-1927

Hendricks, G. A. 1927-1931

Hinkley, Dana H. 1926-1931

Holden, Creighton D. 1978-1987

Jaggi, Audrey E. 1997-2006

Jopling, Alfred O. 1908-1919

Kanter, Henry L. 1905-1908

Karam, Karen 2003-2015

Kelley, Frank J. 1999-2015

Kughn, Richard P. 1989-1999

Lewand, Kathleen S. 1984-1991

Loepp, Daniel J. 2015-

Lowe, Ed 1897

Manoogian, Richard A. 1999-

Marvin, William K. 2012-2025

McGowan, Don 1943-1949

McNaughton, Charles N. 1935-1937

McTigue, Patrick T. 1985-1991

Meijer, Hendrick 2021-

Miller, Charles R. 1897-1908

Moses, Frank R. 1937-1937

Murray, Walter J. 1959-1984

Naegley, Henry E., Jr. 1955-1961

Norton, John P. 1935-1937

Osterink, Bruce J. 1987-1993

Perrin, William A. 1899-1909

Pierce, Phillip 2019-

Porteous, Joan L. 1999-2000, 2001-2007

Posthumus, Richard E. 2018-2021

Price, Margaret 1949-1957

Rickel, Armin 1933-1935

Rudolph, Mariana B. 1957-1973

Russell, Walter W. 1941-1947

St. Peter, Francis X. 1931-1933

Sawyer, Alan F. 1955-1957

Schermerhorn, George D. 1933-1934, 1945-1952

Schlussel, Mark E. 1995-2001

Scranton, Gilmore Gridley 1918-1924

Simon, Louis P. 1935-1936, 1939-1949

Sink, Charles A. 1923-1924

Smith, Sheldon B. 1973-1984

Smits, Lee 1931-1933

Stahlin, John H. 1970-1973

Stephens, A. L. 1895-1897

Stevens, Kenneth M. 1931-1933

Stupak, Laurie 2005-2011

Teysen, Kenneth C. 1964-1997

Thompson, Joseph H. 1935-1937, 1939-1949, 1963-1977

Traxler, Bob 2000-2005

Vogel, Stephen 1991-2003

Vogelheim, Charles A. 1933-1935

Ward, Edward A. 1945-1955

Ward, Erica A. 1989-1995

Weil, Louis H. 1911-1912

White, Peter 1895-1908

Whittaker, Alfred H. 1957-1963

Williams, Jim 2006-2012

Wolterink, Thomas D. 1982-1987

Wood, Edwin O. 1913-1916

Woodfill, W. Stewart 1957-1969

Wright, Washburne 1939-1941

Yob, Charles W. 1993-1999, 2011-2019

Mackinac Island State Park Commission Chairpersons

Thomas W. Ferry 1895-1896

Peter White 1897-1908

Charles R. Miller 1908

Leo M. Butzel 1909-1911

Alfred O. Jopling 1911-1915

Ira A. Adams 1915-1917

Harry Coleman 1917

Walter O. Briggs 1918-1920

Phelps F. Ferris 1920-1921

John R. Hemmeter 1921-1926

John W. Fead 1926-1927

G. A. Hendricks 1928-1930

John S. Haggerty 1931-1932

Kenneth M. Stevens 1932

Roger M. Andrews 1933-1934, 1937-1938

C. L. Edwards 1935-1936

Manferd Burleigh 1936-1937

Joseph H. Thompson 1939-1942, 1965-1969

Gerald J. Cleary 1942

Wilfird F. Doyle 1942-1947, 1949-1953, 1969-1972

Louis P. Simon 1947-1949

James P. Dunnigan 1953-1957

Stewart W. Woodfill 1957-1961

Walter J. Murray 1961-1965, 1973-1975

John H. Stahlin 1972-1973

Sheldon B. Smith 1975-1983

William M. Ellmann 1983-1985

Kathleen S. Lewand 1985-1991

Dennis O. Cawthorne 1991-2007, 2011-2013

Frank J. Kelley 2007-2011

Charles Yob 2013-2019

Daniel J. Loepp 2019-