John Pinegar
Kansas Historical Foundation
Board of Directors
Elected to board: 2007
Elected to executive committee: 2009
Interim CEO and Development Director, Kansas Historical Foundation, 2024
John Pinegar lives in Topeka. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Washburn University and completed graduate coursework at Washburn University and the University of Kansas.
He has more than 40 years of experience in Kansas politics and governmental relations. He is a partner in the governmental and public relations firm of Pinegar, Smith & Associates, Inc., which he co-founded in 1991.
Pinegar serves as a trustee of the Washburn University Foundation; past-president of the Washburn Alumni Association; trustee of the Finnup Foundation; past-president of Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas; and, a member of the board of the Dole Institute of Politics. In 2016 he was inducted into the Garden City High School Hall of Fame. He was named a Washburn University Alumni fellow in 2017 and received the Colonel John Ritchie Award from Washburn University in 2022.
He is also active in managing and operating farming interests in southwest Kansas as a fourth generation Kansan.
He was first elected to the Kansas Historical Foundation Board of Directors in 2007. He was nominated to the executive committee in 2009 and serves on the audit committee.
