Board & Officers

A volunteer Board of Directors meets four times a year to provide strategic oversight.

Priscilla Gonzalez-Leiva, RN
Chair

Retired, formerly with Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Sacramento, CA

Judith Berg, RN, MS, CHE
Treasurer

Vice President, Professional Services NurseWeek/Nursing Spectrum, formerly Sr. VP Nursing Services, Cottage Health System, Santa Barbara, CA

Linda Burnes Bolton, RN, DrPH, FAAN
Director

VP and Chief Nursing Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health System and Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Evelyn Ruiz Calvillo, RN, DNSc
Director

Professor, School of Nursing, California State University, Los Angeles

Marilyn Chow, RN, DNSc, FAAN
Director

Vice President, Patient Care Service, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

Jacqueline Powers Doud, PhD
Secretary

President of Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA

John Golenski, EdD
Deloras Jones, RN, MS
President and Executive Director

Deloras is the founder and executive director of CINHC.  Previously, she was the chief nursing executive for the California Division of Kaiser Permanente. Active on both statewide and national nursing issues, she is a board member of California Institute for Health System Performance, and the founding chair of California Nursing Outcomes Coalition Database Project. Deloras is a past president of the Association of California Nurse Leaders and served on the American Organization of Nurse Executives board. She holds a Master’s in Nursing Science from the University of California, SF, and earned her nursing degree at Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing.

Thomas Johnson, MPH, FACHE (Past Chair)
past Chair

Former Secretary, California Veterans Affairs, formerly CEO Kaweah Delta Health Care District, Life Fellow American College of Healthcare Executives.

Ruth Ann Terry, MPH, RN,
Nursing Education Consultant