Our board is comprised of experts from disciplines including law, arts, science, culture, and technology.  The following individuals have served Creative Commons as board members. We are grateful for their service.

Bolded names indicate current board members.

Board Member (by year of appointment)	Term of Service	Role
Eldred, Eric	2001-2008	Founding director
Boyle, Jamie	2001-2009	Founding director
Abelson, Hal	2001-2015	Founding director
Carroll, Michael	2001-2015	Founding director
Saltzman, Eric	2001-2015	Founding director
Lessig, Lawrence	2001-2019	Founding director; Emeritus Board
Shaffer Van Houweling, Molly	2002-2015, 2016-2022	Board Chair (2016-2022)
Guggenheim, Davis	2003-2014
Ito, Joi	2003-2014	Board Chair
Buckman, John	2006-2007
Wales, Jimmy	2006-2014
Racine, Laurie	2006-2015
Gil, Gilberto	2008
Fake, Caterina	2008-2014
Wojcicki, Esther	2008-2015	Board Chair
Brown, Glenn	2009-2014
Casserly, Cathy	2010-2014
Thomas, Annette	2010-2014
Fitzgerald, Brian	2011-2014
Brest, Paul	2012-2018	Board Chair
Adida, Ben	2013-2020
Rubin, Tom	2013-2019
Cabell, Diane	2001-2014	Secretary/Clerk (2001-2013)
Gordon, Dorothy	2013-2016
Sprigman, Chris	2013-2016
Yoon, Jay	2013-2017
Keller, Paul	2013-2018
Thorne, Chris	2013-2018
Avila, Renata	2014-2020
Peters, Diane	2014-2020	Secretary and General Counsel
Merkley, Ryan	2014-2019	CEO
Nightingale, Johnathan	2015-2019
Spelman, Katherine	2015-2017
Okediji, Ruth	2017-2022
Brand, Amy	2018-2022
Macgillivray , Alexander	2020-2021	Vice Chair
Botero, Carolina	2019-2023
Randeree, Bilal	2019-
Tarkowski, Alek	2019-
Stihler, Catherine	2020-2023	CEO
Browne, Delia	2018-	Board Chair
Tennison, Jeni	2021-
Oduor Lungati, Angela	2021-
Otis Brown, Glen	2021-
Belcher, Marta	2023-
Grimmelmann, James	2023-
Villa, Luis	2023-
Tumadóttir, Anna	2024-	CEO