Board of Trustees include representatives from the Academy of Art, Cranbrook Schools, the Institute of Science and the Cranbrook Educational Community at-large. Board members are elected to three-year terms.
| Adele Acheson (Vice Chair) | Brock R. Landry |
| Michael H. Acheson | Trevor F. Lauer |
| Pamela Applebaum | Leslie Li |
| Michael E. Berger | Bruce D. Peterson (Chair) |
| Richard L. DeVore | Stephen R. Polk (Vice Chair) |
| Jamison Williams Faliski | Mark L. Reuss (Vice Chair) |
| Virginia B. Fox | Warren E. Rose |
| Maxine Frankel | Allan Rothfeder |
| Lee B. Ghesquiere | Geoffrey Schiciano |
| Jennifer Gilbert | Sidhdharth D. Sheth |
| Linda H. Gillum (Vice Chair) | Sandra A. Smith |
| William K. M. Goldsmith | Robert S. Taubman |
| Jeffrey A. Harris (Vice Chair) | Nancy Tellem |
| Rejji P. Hayes | Deborah Wahl |
| Christopher Ilitch | Richard E. Warren |
| James Kelly | Robert T. Wilson |
SENIOR TRUSTEES
| Maggie Allesee | Patricia C. Hartmann |
| Linda Wasserman Aviv | Ira J. Jaffe |
| Lynda Charfoos | Wayne B. Lyon |
| Jeffrey K. Clark | Eugene A. Miller |
| Julie Fisher Cummings | Lisa Payne |
| Denise Anton David | Lloyd E. Reuss |
| Erica Ward Gerson | Tod Williams |
| Edward Hagenlocker | |
