The Incoming Master, 2026/27
Adam Kendall
(Elected 10 September)
Adam was born and raised in northern California. He graduated with a BA in Cinema from San Francisco State University and an MA in History at California State University, Los Angeles. For several years he was the collections manager for the Henry W. Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry at the Grand Lodge of California and, most recently, the executive director of the Oakland Scottish Rite Historical Foundation and the manager of the Valley’s library and archives.
Adam was initiated in San Francisco in 1994 and is a Past Master of Phoenix Lodge No. 144. Additionally, he is a Former Master of Northern California Research Lodge. In 2023, he was invested with the Inspector General Honorary Thirty-Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, USA. He is a past president of the Masonic Library and Museum Association and The Philalethes Society, and a Fellow of the latter; he is also a former editor of the Scottish Rite Research Society’s quarterly bulletin, The Plumbline, and its annual transactions, Heredom. Adam was elected to full membership in Quatuor Coronati Lodge in 2017.
Fascinated with the obscure and sometimes controversial aspects of fraternal organizations in the US (and particularly California), Adam has published a number of essays and enjoys presenting at lodges and symposia. His installation paper for QC Lodge explores the Masonic and social relationships of a little-known late nineteenth-century order, the Knights Commanders of the Sun.
