Board Members

Showing 14 active board members (maximum 14)

Name	Role	End Date
Charlotte Hammond	Member	12/31/2025
Diego Abente	Member	12/31/2024
Stacy Edwards	Non-Voting	09/30/2024 Serving Beyond Term
Geraldine (Gerre) Kraemer	Non-Voting	09/30/2024 Serving Beyond Term
Saladin (Sal) Martinez	Member	12/31/2023 Serving Beyond Term
Kristin Thompson	Member	12/31/2023 Serving Beyond Term
Lydia Padilla	Member	12/31/2022 Serving Beyond Term
Marcia Mellitz	Member	12/31/2020 Serving Beyond Term
James Hoffmeister	Non-Voting	09/30/2020 Serving Beyond Term
Janice Nelson	Non-Voting	09/30/2020 Serving Beyond Term
Francis Yueh	Member	12/31/2019 Serving Beyond Term
Hillary Zimmerman	Member	12/31/2019 Serving Beyond Term
Yemi Akande-Bartsch Ph.D.	Member	12/31/2018 Serving Beyond Term
Adrian Bracy	Member	12/31/2017 Serving Beyond Term

Authorizing Legislation

Rev. Mo. Stat. 184.358 (1992).

Board Duties and Purpose

Each respective sub-district is hereby empowered to own, hold, control, lease, acquire by donation, gift or bequest, purchase, contract, lease, sell, any and all rights in land, buildings, improvements, furnishings, displays, exhibits and programs and any and all other real, personal or mixed property, or to contract with other persons to provide for any and all services for the purposes of the sub-district.

Upon the creation of a botanical sub-district as provided for in section 184.353, all buildings, property, and facilities which are wholly publicly owned and which are then in the care and custody of the botanical sub-district or of any person providing botanical services to the botanical sub-district by contract shall become the property of and vest in the botanical sub-district on the date such sub-district shall be established as provided in section 184.353. Any obligations, duties, rights, privileges of whatever description pertaining to or relating to the maintenance, operation, construction, design, or affairs of such buildings, property, and facilities shall be assumed by the botanical sub-district.

Member Requirements

The botanical garden sub-district established as provided in section 184.353 shall be governed by a commission consisting of ten (10) members to serve without compensation for a term of 4 years.

Five (5) commissioners and their respective successors of each commission shall be appointed by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter county; and five (5) commissioners and their respective successors of each commission shall be appointed by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter city from persons nominated and submitted by the respective then existing commissions. The authority to appoint shall include the authority to reject and in such case an additional nominee or nominees shall be submitted. Board of Aldermen approval is NOT required for the 5 voting members appointed by the mayor.

The commission shall nominate a person to replace members of the class whose terms are to expire or to fill a vacancy. Commissioners who have been appointed by the chief executive officer of the city shall be residents and registered voters of the city during their tenure in office and Commissioners who have been appointed by the chief executive officer of the county shall be residents and registered voters of the county during their tenure in office.

There shall also be four (4) nonvoting advisory members, two (2) of the advisory members shall be selected by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter county and two (2) of the advisory members shall be selected by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter city, with such 4 year terms subject to the advice and consent of the respective legislative bodies of the city or county in which the proposed member resides. Board of Aldermen approval IS required for the 2 non-voting advisory members appointed by the mayor.