The Order of Pacific is the highest award the University can give. The Order of Pacific is intended to honor members of the University regents, faculty, administration and staff who have given distinguished service and made outstanding contributions to the University over a significant number of years.
It is awarded to express the University's esteem and appreciation for the recipient's dedication to Pacific.
For their tireless dedication and visionary leadership, five of University of the Pacific’s most impactful leaders, teachers and mentors will receive the 2023 Order of Pacific, the highest honor awarded by California’s first university.
The Board of Regents voted unanimously for this year’s Order of Pacific nominees:
Norman Allen ’88, ’94, chair of the Board of Regents
Daniel Bender, assistant dean of academic affairs at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
Deb Crane ’01, ’08, director of career services
Bill Herrin, professor of economics
Maria Pallavicini, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs
Gary Litton
Eugene Pearson
William Swagerty
Linda Webster
Carrie Darnall
Berit Gundersen
Lynelle Wiens
Julie Daives
Marilyn Draheim
Eric Hammer
Robert Hanyak
William Kehoe
Lynn King
Bruce Peltier
Brian Weick
Frank Wiens
None
Diane L. Philibosian
Roy C. Bergstrom
Richard E. Fredekind
Kathleen Janssen
Silvio Rodriguez
Cynthia Wagner-Weick
None
Caroline H. Cox
Simalee Smith-Stubblefield
Louise Stark
Richard R. Abood
Diane M. Borden
William M. Carpenter
Patrick D. Cavanaugh
Donald G. Floriddia
William H. Ford
Philip N. Gilbertson
Jon F. Schamber
Horst (Ray) Sylvester
Robert R. Benedetti
Judith M. Chambers
Robert C. and Jeanette Powell
Margaret L. (Peggy) Rosson
None
Carol Ann Hackley
Patrick R. Jones
Larry Spreer
James W. Blankenship
David S. Fries
Roseann Hannon
Donald V. DeRosa
Edwin Pejack
William Topp
Bruce LaBrack
John Phillips
Kenneth Beauchamp
Donald DaGrade
Douglas Smith
Philip Wile
Patrick N. Catania
Deann Christianson
Lee Christianson
Arthur Dugoni
David Fletcher
Darcy Umphred
Robert S. Cox
J. Curtis Kramer
Claude D. Rohwer
Richard H. Turpin
Douglas W. Matheson
Robert Joseph Sarka
Gilbert W. Schedler
Anthony Skrocki
Donald K. Wedegaertner
Jack N. Hadley
Howell I. Runion
Judith L. VanHoorn
Walter Hall
Margaret A. Langer
Jess Marks
Dale W. McNeal
Robert Morrow
Audree S. O’Connell
Margaret S. Payne
Ralph L. Saroyan
Ronald F. Borer
Robert Dash
Roland di Franco
Katherine Knapp
Ravindra Vasavada
B. Jan Timmons
Faud Nahhas
Charles Matuszak
Alice Jean Matuszak
Bertram Lum
Ronald Limbaugh
Estelle Lau
Mari Ivin
Gilbert Dellinger
Kara Brewer
Glen Albaugh
David Baral
Roger Barnett
George Blum
Kishori Chaubal
Madhukar Chaubal
Benjamin Frantz
Paul Gross
Fay B. Haisley
Neil Lark
Lee Fennell
Jerome J. Curtis
Robert E. Hamernik
Arthur M. LaVere
Alan S. Leider
Thuan Van Nguyen
John S. Williams
Robert B. Supernaw
Sandra McNett-McGowan
Steven Anderson
Gwenneth Browne
Donald Duns
Erling Erickson
Ruth Faurot
Lois Harrison
Virginia Puich
Andres Rodriquez
Richard Perry
George L. Buckbee
Hugh J. McBride
Robert W. Blaney
J. Ronald Pecchenino
Sandra L. Persels
Carl E. Wulfman
Herbert E. Ward
Milton C. Lambertson
John Carew
Elmer U. Clawson
William Dominik
Alice Hunter
Darrell C. Percels
Jerry B. Briscoe
Wallace F. Caldwell
Thomas Cheney
Richard P. Dodge
Paul J. Hauben
Janine J. Kreiter
Robert A. Kreiter
Larry L. Pippen
Donald Y. Shirachi
Reuben W. Smith
Patricia Wagner
Jack G. Chamberlain
Don E. Strub
Arlen Hansen
Ronald J. Caviani
James King
Clifford Dochterman
William Christopherson
Wolfgang Fetsch
Ira Lehn
Anne Funkhouser
Leonard Humphreys
Marvin Malone
Boyd Mathias
Evelyn Spring
Warren Van Bronkhorst
Alfred Gilmour
Donald Wollett
John Brown
Leroy Cagnone
Dewey Chambers
Charles Clerc
William Darling
Irvin Dale Dunmire
Bess Eayrs
Mark Ealey
Herschel Frye
Stanley Green
Robert Heyborne
Louis Leiter
Elizabeth Mason
Robert McMaster
Doris Meyer
John Schippers
Yukiye Sugi
Roy Timmons
John Wonder
Donald Barker
Yvonne Schildt
Stanley Volbrecht
Roy Whiteker
Paul Winters
None
Robert Smutny
Ernestine Smutny
Glen Shellhaas
Sy Kahn
Mike Wagner
Elizabeth Spelts
Charles Schilling
Heath W. Lowry
Arthur Maynard
Charles Roscoe
Alice J. Murray
Paul Fairbrook
Edith Moore
Catherine Davis
Earl Washburn
William Bacon
Sarah Schilling
None
Graciela Urteaga
James Riddles
Malcolm Moule
Max Polinsky
Floyd Helton
Richard Reynolds
Edward S. Betz
Margaret L. Cormack
Leonard L. O’Bryon /Martha Seffer O’Bryon
Kathleen Shannon
Lawrence J. Osborne
Emerson Cobb
J. Marc Jantzen
Donald G. Smiley
Harold S. Jacoby
Donald Pace
Ted Baun
Fay Goleman
William Nietman
R. Coke Wood
None
Gordan Harrison
Lloyd King
Mary Bowling
Cisco Kihara
Elliott J. Taylor
Lucas Underwood
Russell Bodley
Clair C. Olson
Edwin Ding
Robert E. Burns
Rollin C. Fox
David K. Bruner
Carl D. Voltmer
John Gilchrist Elliott
Benjamin A. Bava
Arthur J. Cullen
Arthur R. Beckwith
Charles B. Norman
Willis N. Potter
Doris M. Richards
Howard L. Runion
Ellen L. Deering
Virginia Short McLaughlin
Henderson E. McGee
DeMarcus Brown
J. Henry Welton
Malcolm R. Eiselen
G. Warren White
Reginald Stuart / Grace Stuart
Samuel L. Meyer
Alonzo L. Baker
Jesse R. Rudkin
Martha Foster Pierce
Lois Warner Winston
Frank A. Lindhorst
Marion O. Pease
Frederick E. Steinhauser
NONE
Monreo Potts
Wilhelmina K. Harbert
Ernest E. Stanford
Lloyd M. Bertholf
George H. Colliver
NONE
Allan Bacon
John Herbert Jonte
Anne Brady Arnold
Fred L. Farley
J. William Harris
Gustavus Adolphus Werner
Ovid H. Ritter
C. Marian Barr-Smitten
Olin D. Jacoby
Emily Walline Knoles
