Over 100 Years of Office Furniture Dealership Experience

Jim Herr has been President and owner of Parron Hall since the late 1980's.   His family's history in the industry, however, stretches back into the nineteenth century to the Amish country of Pennsylvania.

L B Herr and Sons was founded in Lancaster, PA in the 1880s by Jim's great grandfather. During the course of its history, LB Herr and Sons sold office furniture, stationery, books, printing and music.

Jim Herr's father, LB Herr III, under the tutelage of his father, learned the office furniture business at LB Herr and Sons. In the early 1960s, these two generations of Herrs brought their knowledge to Parron Hall, which was already a well established office furniture dealer in San Diego having been founded in 1947. 

Jim Herr joined Parron Hall out of college in 1978, having graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah in Finance.  In 1988, with four generations and over 100 years of family experience, he took over from his father.

He has steered the company through two recessions and grown the company from $7 million in sales to over $30 million in sales, and along the way it has become one of the largest office furniture dealers in the market.