Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors was established in 1966 by the Board of Trustees to increase the National Trust’s direct contact and communication with state and local constituents. It provides the Trust and the American preservation movement a nationwide network of more than one hundred volunteer preservation leaders, with two representatives from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 2005 at the request of the Board of Advisors, the Trustees passed a resolution specifically to expand the diversity and reach of Advisors by adding up to two Advisors from each of the six Trust regions, the goal of which is to develop collegial relationships with networks of individuals and communities not currently engaged in the preservation movement. Advisors may serve up to three, three-year terms, with performance evaluations taking place at the end of years 3 and 6. From its inception in 1966, 685 individuals have served on the Board of Advisors.
Advisors represent the skills, interests, backgrounds, accomplishments, and diverse constituencies involved in the preservation movement in the United States. They are selected after consultation with preservation partners in the affected states, and offer assistance to the National Trust through their personal skills, knowledge of issues, and familiarity with the state’s and region’s resources, leaders, government, media, and community organizations. Advisors provide valuable counsel on emerging concerns and trends, and in turn have stimulated the creation of program activities responding to a range of issues, including diversity, the recent past, heritage education, heritage tourism, and economic development. The Trust’s regional offices maintain a strong working relationship with each Advisor in his or her region and help to determine when and how the skills of an individual Advisor might best be matched to identified needs. The Resource Center in the National Trust’s Washington D.C. office supports the leadership of the Board of Advisors and coordinates the meetings of Advisors.
Advisors convene at least twice annually, once at the national preservation conference and again each Spring, either in different cities in their region, or in Washington, D.C., on a rotating basis. Since 1999, Advisors have sponsored educational sessions at the conference, using the opportunity to bring together the experiences of a group of individuals around a rising issue challenging preservationists and communities across the country. Spring meetings every other year in Washington coincide with the preservation movement’s Lobby Day activities, coordinated by a partnership of preservation organizations including the National Trust. Advisors are prominently active in such advocacy activities on a national, regional, and local level.
The Board of Advisors is governed by an annually elected Executive Committee of officers and the chairs of the regional boards of Advisors, plus four individuals from the at-large Advisor membership. The work of the Advisors is accomplished on specialized committees formed around specific issues in concert with staff of the National Trust. Additionally, Advisors serve on committees of the Board of Trustees and the National Trust’s Diversity Council at the invitation of the Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board of Advisors is an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees and a member of its Executive Committee.
Advisors Emeritus are former Advisors who have completed three three-year terms or who have served with distinction, and were elected to Emeritus status. Since the Board’s inception, 221 Advisors have become Emeritus.
Current Advisors (As of January 31, 2007)
Alabama
Alice M. Bowsher
D.D. Martin
Alaska
Vacancy
Arizona
Linda L. Mayro
James W. McPherson, III
Arkansas
Cheryl Griffith Nichols
Debbie W. Shea
California
Susan Brandt-Hawley
Luis G. Hoyos, AIA
Timothy P. Whalen
Colorado
David S. Cohen
Sally H. Hopper
Connecticut
Preston Maynard
Anita L. Mielert
Delaware
Mary Jane Elliott
Joan Harwood Hazelton
District of Columbia
Ronnie W. McGhee
Kathryn S. Smith
Florida
Marion M. Almy
George T. Neary
Georgia
Mark C. McDonald
Eugene L. Surber, FAIA
Hawaii
Lani Ma'a Lapilio
Idaho
Terri A. Schorzman
Illinois
Paula Robinson
Ronald L. Thomas, AICP
Indiana
Kevin Krulewitch
Iowa
Dan Tindall, AIA
Kansas
K. Vance Kelly, AIA
Kentucky
David L. Morgan
Louisiana
James R. Logan
Saidee W. Newell
Maine
James M. Day
Edward A. Hobler
Maryland
Harrison B. Wetherill, Jr.
Massachusetts
Marita Rivero
Valerie Talmage
Michigan
Frank Ettawageshik
James A. Turner
Minnesota
Roger A. Brooks
Carolyn H. Sundquist
Mississippi
Larry L. “Butch” Brown, Sr.
Beverly T. Meng
Missouri
Eric C. Youngberg, AICP
Montana
Robert L. Hawks
Mary G. Oliver
Nebraska
Douglas V. Duey
Maxine B. Moul
Nevada
Sue Fawn Chung, Ph.D.
Melinda J. Gustin
New Hampshire
Martha Fuller Clark
Doris C. Burke
New Jersey
Diane Allen
Ronald Magill
New Mexico
Mary Jane M. Garcia
Ernest W. Ortega
New York
Richard S. Hawks
Anne H. Van Ingen
North Carolina
Benjamin F. Speller, Jr.
North Dakota
Donald S. Haugen
Ohio
Kathleen H. Crowther
John E. Moore, Jr.
Oklahoma
John M. Mabrey
Mary Ellen M. Meredith
Oregon
Richard H. Michaelson
Mary J. Oberst
Pennsylvania
Caroline E. Boyce
August R. Carlino
Puerto Rico
Fernando Lloveras
Rhode Island
Karen L. Jessup, Chair
Richard C. Youngken
South Carolina
Vacancy
South Dakota
James W. Abbott
Albert M. LeBeau, III
Tennessee
William E. Kennedy, M.D.
Carroll Van West
Texas
Samuel L. Collins, III
Marcel Quimby, FAIA
Utah
Frank R. Pignanelli
Don L. Stromquist, M.D.
Vermont
Elizabeth Humstone
Robert A. McBride
Virgin Islands
Gerville Rene Larsen
Virginia
Elaine Dowe Carter
Harry J. Warthen, III
Washington
Joanne H. Moyer
Michael Sean Sullivan
West Virginia
Laura Kurtz Kuhns
Monica D. Miller, EDFP
Wisconsin
Denise L. Hice
Kori Oberle
Wyoming
Kurt Dubbe, AIA
Alvin Wiederspahn
Advisors Emeritus
Alabama
Nancy N. Holmes, Chair, 1977-1979
James L. Loeb
Douglas C. Purcell
Gwyn C. Turner
Marjorie L. White
Alaska
Judith Bittner
Renee Blahuta
Robert A. Frederick, Chair, 1975-1977
Wilda Marston
Janet M. Matheson, AIA, CSI
Arizona
James E. Ayres
James E. Babbitt
Grady Gammage, Jr.
Elisabeth F. Ruffner
Arkansas
Carl H. Miller, Jr.
Cyrus A. Sutherland
Parker Westbrook
Charles Witsell, Jr., FAIA
California
Claire Bogaard
Linda Dishman
Bruce D. Judd, FAIA
Christy McAvoy
Colorado
DeVon M. Carlson
Betty M. Chronic
Ellen Kingman Fisher
Jon Schler
Connecticut
Nancy N. Campbell, Chair, 1987-1989
Jared I. Edwards, FAIA
Mary E. Findlay
David Shiverick Smith, Chair, 1967-1969
Terry J. Tondro
Delaware
Kim Rogers Burdick
Eldon du P. Homsey, AIA
Charles T. Lyle
Robert L. Raley
District of Columbia
Theresa Brown
Charles I. Cassell, AIA
Francis D. Lethbridge
Carol Thompson-Cole
Florida
Roy Hunt
Joan W. Jennewein, Chair, 1981-1983
Nancy Liebman
Janet Snyder Matthews
Arva Parks McCabe
Herschel E. Shepard, Jr.
Georgia
Janice P. Biggers
Ben Grace
Bradley Hale
Paul Muldawer, FAIA
Hawaii
Helen H. Cole
Spencer Leineweber
Barnes Riznik
Idaho
Robert L. Aldridge
John L. Bertram
Sheri Freemuth
Julie J. Hyslop
Jerry T. Myers
Illinois
Gerald W. Adelmann
Susan Snell Barnes
Maureen E. Gustafson
Amy R. Hecker
Edmund B. Thornton
Indiana
James A. Glass
Kent Schuette
Randall T. Shepard, Chair, 1983-1985
J. Reid Williamson, Jr.
Iowa
David L. Cordes
Curt Heidt
Marlys A. Svendsen
Kansas
Joan E. Adam
J. Eric Engstrom
Dean Graves, FAIA
Robert A. Puckett
Kentucky
Richard DeCamp
Richard L. Holland
Barbara Hulette
Ann Early Sutherland
Louisiana
Winifred Byrd
Paul M. Haygood
Joseph F. Newell
Suzanne W. Turner
Maryland
G. Bernard Callan
H. Grant Dehart, AICP
Edward T. McMahon
Massachusetts
Philip B. Herr
Thomas Menino
Roger S. Webb
George Wislocki
Michigan
Janese Chapman
William J. Kimball
Kathleen H. Wendler
William M. Worden
Minnesota
John L. Kuester
Charlene Roise
Mississippi
Alferdteen Brown Harrison
Susan H. Ivy
Samuel H. Kaye
Ronald W. Miller
Rufus A. Ward, Jr.
Missouri
William L. Bruning
Janice J. Matthews
William Scott Meyer
Osmund R. Overby
Montana
James R. McDonald, AIA
Jeanette McKee
Judy McNally
Ellen Sievert
Nebraska
George Haecker, AIA
Nancy Hoch
Perry L. Poyner, AIA
Nevada
Andria S. Daley
Ana B. Koval
New Hampshire
Alice DeSouza, Chair, 2001-2003
William B. Hart
Michael C. Harvell
Barbara B. Pressly
New Jersey
Flavia Alaya
Constance Greiff
Mary Brown Hamingson
Michael C. Henry
Katharine Earnshaw Shuler
New Mexico
Victor W. Johnson, AIA
Katherine Ann Slick, Chair, 1989-1991
New York
Kent Barwick
Henry McCartney
Julia S. Stokes
Anthony C. Wood
North Carolina
Edward H. Clement, Chair, 1979-1981
Richard Mathews
North Dakota
Joan W. Galleger
Barbara S. Lang, Chair, 1999-2001
Royce A. Yeater, AIA, Chair, 1985-1987
Ohio
Sandra C. Hull
Ted J. Ligibel, Ph.D.
Emily Warren
Oklahoma
Susan Guthrie Dunham, Chair, 1993-1995
Martin Newman
Oregon
George Kramer
Sharr Steele-Prohaska
Pennsylvania
Mary Werner DeNadai, AIA, Chair, 1995-1997
Henry A. Jordan, M.D.
Stanley A. Lowe
Puerto Rico
Jose R. Coleman-Davis Pagan
Arleen Pabón
Rhode Island
Sean O. Coffey
Alfred B. Van Liew
South Carolina
Howard E. Duvall
Helen C. Harvey
William Light Kinney, Jr.
Evelyn M. McGee
Vanessa Turner-Maybank
South Dakota
Jacqualyn Gist Fuller
Spencer Ruff
William R. Wyatt
Tennessee
James K. Huhta
Debby Dale Mason
Mimi Phillips
Texas
Karl A. Komatsu, AIA
Betty A. Massey
Virginia S. McAlester
Nancy Brown Negley
Paula Peters
U.S. Virgin Islands
Anthony J. Ayer
Barbara M. Hagan-Smith
George Tyson
Utah
Stephanie Jackel
Tina Stahlke Lewis, Chair, 1997-1999
Allen D. Roberts
Robert White
Vermont
Paul Bruhn
Georgianna O. Brush
Chester Liebs
Thomas P. Salmon
Virginia
FitzGerald Bemiss
Constance Chamberlin
Robert B. Lambeth, Jr.
Patricia L. Zontine
Washington
Karen Gordon
Geraldine Lucks
Larry J. Nickel
Mary M. Thompson, Chair, 2003- 2005
West Virginia
Beverly Fluty
Betty Woods Nutting
Walton Danforth Stowell, Sr.
Wisconsin
Brian D. Rude
William H. Tishler
Wyoming
James Davis
Lucille Clarke Dumbrill
Richard D. Wilder
