CSBA Presidents from 1931 to 2031
Prompted by discussions among several boards throughout California about the need to advocate for educational programs, 29 school board members from 12 counties gathered at the Donner School auditorium in Sacramento on Sept. 8, 1931, to form the California School Trustees Association, later to be known as the California School Boards Association. The association began with a simple mission statement: “The purpose of the organization shall be to promote the best interests of the schools of the State of California”.
This simple statement of purpose was revised in 1933 to comply with the California Education Code:
The purposes of this Association shall be to preserve, advance and improve the public free schools; to encourage and cooperate with all persons and associations whose interests and purposes shall be the betterment of the educational opportunities of the children of California; to promote the enactment of such legislation as shall tend toward improvement in educational programs; to promote and advance public education through research and investigation, and to publish reports on educational problems; to obtain the foregoing objectives, so far as is reasonably possible, within the limits of a just and fair tax upon the citizens of 
1931–33
A native of Kern County, Stockton was the California School Trustees Association’s first president and a member of the board of the Standard School District. He was seated as a judge in the Kern County Superior Court in 1939 and one year later was also appointed to preside over the court’s juvenile division.
1933–35
McGinnis of Crows Landing was the clerk of the local high school board and also chairman of the Legislative Committee of the California School Trustees Association.
1935–37
Allen was born in Oakland and was on the Oakland USD school board for 15 years. He was later elected as chairman of the Republican County Central Committee of Alameda County and went on to be a U.S. representative from California’s 7th Congressional District.
1937–39
Aynesworth was a prominent Fresno attorney for 42 years. He was a member of the Fresno USD Board of Education for eight years. Aynesworth has a school in Fresno named after him.
