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The California Hall of Fame

December 14, 2010
6:00pm—8:00pm

The California Museums’ first live broadcast of the California Hall of Fame will begin at 6:00p.m., when co-hosts Lisa Ling, Oprah correspondent, and Jason Kennedy, E! News correspondent, conduct interviews live from the red carpet!

This year’s star-studded list of inductees and attendees are:

  • Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger & First Lady Maria Shriver
  • Governor-Elect Jerry Brown accepting on behalf of his father, inductee Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown
  • Blockbuster film-maker James Cameron
  • Silicon Valley visionary investor John Doerr
  • The family of Bank of America founder and father of modern banking A. P. Giannini
  • Country music legend Merle Haggard
  • Author and activist Anne Lamott
  • Historian Kevin Starr
  • The family of businessman and philanthropist Levi Strauss
  • Screen and music icon Barbra Streisand
  • Former Secretary of State George Shultz
  • Celebrated artist Wayne Thiebaud
  • Comedienne Betty White
  • International tennis champion Serena Williams
  • Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

Other VIPs attending include:

  • Governor Gray Davis & Sharon Davis
  • 2006 California Hall of Fame inductee Clint Eastwood & Dina Eastwood
  • Margrit Mondavi, wife of 2007 inductee Robert Mondavi
  • Stuart Milk, nephew of 2009 inductee Harvey Milk
  • California Secretary of State Debra Bowen
  • State Treasurer Bill Lockyer
  • Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado
  • Lt. Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom

Watch the program streaming live on The California Museum's home page or tune into Comcast Hometown Network, digital cable channel 104.