State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 22, 2025
San Francisco city treasurer appointed next State Bar Board chair
San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros, a non-attorney, will chair the State Bar Board of Trustees starting Sept. 19, succeeding Brandon Stallings. Two new vice-chairs and committee leaders were also appointed.
A non-attorney, José Cisneros, becomes chair of the State Bar Board of Trustees on Sept. 19, replacing Kern County Deputy District Attorney Brandon N. Stallings for a one-year term.
The California Supreme Court also appointed Dr. Mark Toney, Audit Committee chair as vice chair of the board, effective next month.
Cisneros, appointed to the bar board by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019, has been San Francisco's elected treasurer since 2004, acting as the city's banker and investment chief.
He was reappointed to a second four-year term on the bar board in 2022. In 2021, he chaired the board's Committee on the Special Discipline Case Audit, which made recommendations to strengthen the discipline system, leading to the State Bar's launch of the Client Trust Account Protection Program.
Cisneros is also a trustee member of the Review Committee of the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation. Hed graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
The Supreme Court also appointed Head Deputy District Attorney Alan S. Yochelson of Los Angeles to a one-year term as chair of the Committee of Bar Examiners, and Ashley Silva-Guzman of Laurel Employment Law in Van Nuys to vice-chair.
David Jargiello of VLP Law Group LLP in Palo Alto was appointed as a board member.
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