- Rabbi Joseph Asher, z”l – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former senior rabbi of San Francisco’s Temple Emanu-El
- Rabbi Allen Bennett – past president and former executive director of the Board of Rabbis, former rabbi at San Francisco’s Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, rabbi emeritus Temple Israel of Alameda
- Rabbi Elliot Burstein, z”l – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former senior rabbi of San Francisco’s Congregation Beth Israel
- Rabbi Lavey Derby – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former senior rabbi of San Rafael’s Congregation Kol Shofar; now Director of Jewish Life at Peninsula Jewish Community Center (PJCC) in Foster City.
- Rabbi Serena Eisenberg – past president of the Board of Rabbis, Regional Director, AJC (American Jewish Committee) Northern California
- Rabbi Nat Ezray – Immediate Past President of the Board of Rabbis (2024 – 2026), currently serving at Congregation Beth Jacob in Redwood City.
- Rabbi Pam Frydman – past president of the Board of Rabbis, served as rabbi of Or Shalom Jewish Community and Congregation B’nai Emunah of San Francisco and Congregation P’nai Tikvah of Las Vegas. Serves as chaplain resident at Stanford Hospital.
- Rabbi Marvin Goodman – former executive director of the Board of Rabbis, former rabbi-in-residence of the San Francisco based Jewish Community Federation, rabbi emeritus of Peninsula Sinai Congregation in Foster City
- Rabbi Morton Hoffman, z”l – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former rabbi at San Rafael’s Congregation Rodef Sholom; former U.S. Army chaplain in Japan, served as rabbi in Haifa, Israel and Michigan’s Congregation Shaarey Zedek
- Rabbi Samantha Kahn – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former rabbi at 18Doors (then known as InterfaithFamily); and now serving as a congregational rabbi
- Rabbi Chai Levy – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former rabbi of San Rafael’s Congregation Kol Shofar; now senior rabbi of Berkeley’s Netivot Shalom
- Rabbi Alan Lew, z”l – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former senior rabbi of San Francisco’s Congregation Beth Shalom
- Rabbi Sheldon “Shelly” Lewis – past president of the Board of Rabbis, rabbi emeritus of Palo Alto’s Congregation Kol Emeth, author, former U.S. Army chaplain in Vietnam, student of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, z”l and was active in the movement to free Soviet Jewry
- Rabbi Brian Lurie – former leader of the Board of Rabbis, retired executive director of the San Francisco based Jewish Community Federation, past president of the New Israel Fund
- Rabbi Harry Manhoff, PhD – past president of the Board of Rabbis, rabbi emeritus of San Leandro’s Congregation Beth Shalom
- Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, DD, PhD – past president of the Board of Rabbis, senior rabbi emeritus of San Francisco’s Temple Emanu-El
- Rabbi Andrew Straus – past president of the Board of Rabbis, Northwest Regional Director of J Street after a successful career as a congregational rabbi at Thousand Oaks’ Temple Adat Elohim, Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, Oakland’s Temple Sinai, Tempe’s Temple Emanuel and Burlingame’s Peninsula Temple Sholom.
- Rabbi Malcolm Sparer, z”l – past president and former executive director of the Board of Rabbis, former rabbi of San Francisco’s Congregation Chevra Thilim, former chaplain VA hospital and San Francisco Jewish Home
- Rabbi H. David Teitelbaum, z”l – past president and former executive director of the Board of Rabbis, rabbi emeritus of Redwood City’s Congregation Beth Jacob, and former Korean War chaplain
- Rabbi Jacob Traub – past president of the Board of Rabbis, former rabbi of San Francisco’s Adath Israel
- Rabbi Eric Weiss – past president of the Board of Rabbis, and former President & CEO, Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
- Rabbi Saul White, z”l – past president of the Board of Rabbis, served as rabbi of San Francisco’s Congregation Beth Sholom, founder of The Brandeis School of San Francisco. The Rabbi Saul E. White Professorial Chair was established at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles in his honor.
- Rabbi John H. Zucker, PhD, z”l – past president of the Board of Rabbis, served as rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro after serving a reform congregation in Reno, Nevada.
