Bonnie LePard Appointed to the Presidio Trust Board

San Francisco, CA (January 17, 2025) – Bonnie LePard has been appointed by President Joe Biden to the Presidio Trust Board of Directors.

A resident of the Washington D.C. area, Ms. LePard has extensive historic preservation experience. She has served as the executive director of the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the Oatlands Historic Home & Gardens, a 400-acre National Trust for Historic Preservation site in Virginia. As executive director of Friends of Tregaron and founder of the Tregaron Conservancy, she led a decades-long community-based campaign that saved a historic landscape in Washington D.C. Ms. LePard’s term on the Trust board extends through May 4, 2027.

With Ms. LePard’s appointment, Lynne Benioff is departing the Trust board, concluding nearly a decade of service. Ms. Benioff was chair of the Trust Board, chair of the Governance Committee, and a co-chair of the Presidio Tunnel Tops Campaign Committee, which raised $98 million to create 14 acres of new parkland in the Presidio reclaimed from a highway site. Presidio Tunnel Tops opened to great acclaim in July 2022 and has hosted more than four million visits since.

“We are deeply grateful to Lynne for her dedication to the Presidio. She has been such an engaged, insightful, and supportive leader on the Trust Board for so many years.” said Jean Fraser, Presidio Trust CEO. “I will miss her greatly.”

Other board members are Chair Mark Buell, Vice-Chair Nicola Miner, Chuck Collins, Leni Eccles, and Patsy Ishiyama. For more information about the Presidio Trust Board visit the website.

About the Presidio Trust and Board of Directors

The Presidio is one of America’s most visited national park sites, located within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Spanning 1,500 acres next to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio is among the most biologically diverse parks in America. Historically a home to native peoples and a military post under three flags, its facilities have been reinvented as museums, restaurants, hotels, homes, and offices. The Presidio Trust is the federal agency that stewards the Presidio, in partnership with the National Park Service and with support from the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. The Trust sustains the Presidio by leasing homes and workplaces and offering visitor amenities.

The Presidio Trust is governed by a seven-member board of directors. Six members are appointed by the President of the United States. The seventh is the U.S. Secretary of the Interior or her designee. Board terms are four years and may be renewed once.