Chip and his wife Jeanne moved to Sonoma from Oakland in 2000. In the ensuing years Chip became involved in many of the civic organizations in the community, including the Vintage Festival, the Chamber of Commerce, the Sonoma Valley Citizens Advisory committee, Sonoma League for Historic Preservation, and the Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley. In each of those organizations Chip participated in the board and served as president. In addition to participating in these local civic organizations Chip maintained his law practice serving the estate and business planning community. Chip and Jeanne also enjoyed raising puppies for Canine Companions for Independence. Chip and Jeanne enjoy traveling and exploring new places. They have recently embarked on a new career of investing in multifamily (apartments) properties.

James Titus has over 40 years of professional experience in architecture, planning, project management and real estate development advisory services. Preservation projects include the Sheraton Palace Hotel San Francisco and the Flood Building, San Francisco. Since 1992 Mr. Titus has been dividing time between Titus Properties, Inc. established to providing real estate planning and development advisory services and a series of small real estate investment projects. Jim is a Life Member of the Sonoma League for Historic Preservation and is a Founding Member of the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.

Mary is a licensed Real Estate Agent working at CENTURY 21 Wine Country, focusing on residential real estate since 2009. She earned her A.A. from College of Marin and worked as a Certified Dental Assistant in the Bay Area for 4 years before moving to Sonoma in 1988 with her husband, Mike, to raise their two children. She was drawn to the rural and historic town of Sonoma and joined the League in an effort to do what she can to help others appreciate and preserve these properties. She has been the bookkeeper for her husband's construction business since 1994 and was also a bookkeeper for a local attorney from 2011-15. Szykowny worked as the Health Tech at Flowery School from 1995-96 and from 1990 until 2005, served as a volunteer at Presentation School and in the Sonoma Valley Unified School District, serving on various boards and fundraising committees at both.

Upon their retirement, Linda and her husband, Hewitt, moved to Sonoma in 2015. Having been raised in northern Minnesota, Linda knew nothing about the history of Sonoma. Immediately falling in love with her new community, she immersed herself in learning about Sonoma’s colorful past, its early inhabitants, and the charm of the old structures being preserved for all generations to discover and enjoy. In the past six years, Linda has enjoyed absorbing the history, the architecture, and learning about the people that fought for and built this thriving community: the General, the Count and the Adventurer, to name a few. The cold winters of Minnesota brought Linda to San Francisco in 1982. Her 40-year career remained focused in financial services, including commercial property risk management, project management, and executive recruiting management with one of the three largest international executive search firms. Linda graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Interior Design. Her keen interest in architecture, construction, and interiors, especially historic properties and all things ‘antique’, drive her thirst for discovering more of Sonoma’s important past. Linda enjoys giving back to her community by volunteering for various non-profits, including F.I.S.H. (Friends In Sonoma Helping) by organizing the volunteers for the annual holiday food basket program, Sonoma International Film Festival in venue management, Vintage House events participation, and Sonoma Valley Hospital assisting the head of community relations.

Linda Blum spent many years in NYC, where she was able to channel her love of art, history, and culture by volunteering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both as a fixture at the Information Desk, and as a personal researcher for Curator Emeritus Professor von Bothmer. At the Metropolitan Opera she was a Backstage Tour Guide for the Opera Guild. After getting her M.A. in History from NYU, Linda was able to transfer her love of all things cultural and historical to Sonoma – where she and her husband have lived for the last 12 years. Linda has found much joy in the local community, as well as contributing to charities such as F.I.S.H. (where she dispatches) and The Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance, where she has mentored a young girl for the last 8 years. Linda is happiest within a library or historical setting with books to be read, stories to be written, and documents to be catalogued. She looks forward to digging deeper into the history of our beautiful town!

Bill and his wife Karen started coming to Sonoma in the 1990s. Both mid-westerners, they made their way to San Francisco via New York in 1993. After years of house hunting in wine country, they purchased, restored, renovated and expanded an old farmhouse off the Square in 2015. Bill manages a small investment firm focused on early and growth stage technology companies while Karen runs a non-profit in Burlingame. Bill is an avid road biker and is likely to be seen on the roads around Sonoma. Karen enjoys hiking can often be found on Sonoma Overlook Trail or in Bartholomew Park. They are empty nesters - their son Ben lives and works in Barcelona Spain and their daughter Sarah is pursuing an academic career in Oxford, UK.

Robert Demler has served as a Director and President of Sonoma League for Historic Preservation several years ago and prior to becoming Executive Administrator in September 2019. Previously he served as the Sonoma City Historian and is Director Emeritus and Founding Member of the Blue Wing Adobe Trust. Mr. Demler was also the Chairman of the General Vallejo Monument Committee who was responsible for the Vallejo Statue in the Sonoma Plaza. He is also the Archivist of the Sonoma Sunrise Rotary Club and is a Director of the Board of Global Partners for Development. Demler and his wife, Leslie, spent over 15 years as the owners/caretakers of the historic Demler-Jones-Vallejo Adobe, now called the Vallejo-Casteñada Adobe in Sonoma.

Trained as an architectural historian and historic preservation planner, Alice specializes in evaluation, recordation and inventory of historic resources, and provides consulting services through her company, APD Preservation, to satisfy cultural resource compliance requirements at the federal, state and local levels. Architects, contractors, and home owners retain her when they have a vision for their property and can't wait months or years of trying to navigate the complex business of city planning and environmental compliance.