Board of Trustees
The policies and affairs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation are directed and reviewed by the Board of Trustees. The Trustees meet three times annually (January, May and October). There are nine Board committees (Finance & Management, Business Development, Historic Sites, Preservation, Resources Development, Engagement, Diversity, Community Revitalization, and Law & Public Policy). Cliff Hudson of Oklahoma City, OK is Chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Aida Alvarez (Piedmont, CA) currently serves on the board of directors of Union BanCal Corporation, Wal-Mart, the diversity advisory board for Deloitte Touche, and chairs the Latino Community Foundation in the San Francisco Bay area. She was the first Hispanic woman to serve in a President's Cabinet, having been appointed Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) by President Clinton.
Victor Ashe (Knoxville, TN) is the former Mayor of Knoxville. He was a leading advocate of historic preservation as Mayor and proposed a city charter amendment that requires the Mayor to issue an annual report on historic preservation which was adopted by city voters. He served in the Tennessee State Senate from 1975 to 1984 and the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1968 to 1974. He was executive director of the Americans Outdoors Commission from 1985 to 1987.
Carol N. Bonnie (San Francisco, CA & Upperville, VA) has placed most of her focus on philanthropic activities, after leaving a very successful career in sales. Along with her husband, Shelby, she has lead the effort to restore Oakley, an 1857 Italianate Victorian home in Upperville, VA. Besides restoring the house, they have also restored numerous smaller houses and buildings, including a historic mill nearby.
Leslie Greene Bowman (Charlottesville, VA) is president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which owns and operates Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. From 1999-2008, she served as Director and CEO of the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. Previously, she was at the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, serving as head curator of decorative arts and assistant director of exhibition programs. Since 1993 she has served by presidential appointment on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.
Carolyn Schwenker Brody (Washington, DC) is the immediate past chair of the National Building Museum. A former investment banker and city planner, she served on the Commission of Fine Arts from 1994 to 2000. She currently serves on the board of Kenyon College and the Chairman's Council of Conservation International.
Linda Bruckheimer (Santa Monica, CA & Bloomfield, KY) is the author of two novels and the producer of specials for PBS. Along with her husband, Jerry, she has restored an 1820 Greek Revival home in rural
Spencer R. Crew, Ph.D. (Reston, VA) is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and Art History at George Mason University. Prior to that he served as the President of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2001 until 2007.
Kevin D. Daniels (Newcastle, WA) is the President of Nitze-Stagen & Co., Inc. and Daniels Real Estate Investments. Both companies focus on the redevelopment of landmarked structures and community redevelopment projects in the City of Seattle and have recently worked on two different National Preservation Award winning projects (Union Station – Seattle & the Cadillac Hotel).
Jack Davis (New Orleans, LA and Chicago, IL) is vice president of Chicago Metropolis 2020, a regional planning organization. He is also a volunteer in recovery efforts in New Orleans.
Jennifer Emerson (Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA) is president and founder of Hanover Benefits, a healthcare consulting company. She started a successful grass roots effort to save the First United Methodist Church from demolition in early 2003 and also serves on the Board of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and the Ennis House Foundation.
Kumiki Gibson (Brooklyn, NY) is the former Commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights.
Paul Goldberger (New York, NY), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, critic and educator, has served as Architecture Critic for The New Yorker since 1997. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City.
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Irvin M. Henderson (Henderson, NC) is Principal of Henderson & Company, a consulting firm with expertise in community development education and training, community development finance and capital structure, collaboration and community involvement, community reinvestment, organizational development, project design and management, strategic planning, commercial, residential and enterprise development.
Jorge L. Hernandez (Coral Gables, FL) is a practitioner of architecture and a professor at the University of Miami. Previously Mr. Hernandez was a member of the University of Virginia faculty. His firm, Jorge L. Hernandez Architect PA (JLH Architect), was founded in 1987 and focuses on historic preservation, the design of custom residences and master plans for neighborhoods. Mr. Hernandez has served on numerous local and state boards including the City of Coral Gables Historic Preservation Board, the Florida Historic Advisory Council and Florida Historical Commission. Presently he is vice-president of Dade Heritage Trust and is a member of the State of Florida Historical Marker Council. Mr. Hernandez, who was born in Havana, Cuba in 1956 and immigrated to Miami in 1962, is married to Alina Palacios-Hernandez and has three children: Alexander, Carolina, and Christopher.
Marilynn Wood Hill (Bronxville, NY) is an historian, author, and community volunteer, primarily in the areas of history and education. She is on the boards of the Foundation for the National Archives and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, and on the National Advisory Council of the Historic Charleston Foundation. She is the co-founder of the Bronxville Historic Conservancy and is the editor of The Bronxville Journal.
J. Clifford Hudson (Oklahoma City, OK) is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mr. Hudson is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Sonic Corp., an Oklahoma City-based, publicly-held company that owns, operates and franchises more than 3,500 Sonic Drive-In restaurants (NASDAQ: SONC). From 1994 through 2001, Mr. Hudson served as Chairman of the Board of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation, to which he was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation.
Irene Hirano Inouye (Los Angeles, CA) is the former President and founding CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and continues to serve as Executive Advisor. She has more than 30 years of experience in non-profit administration, community education, and public affairs with culturally diverse communities nationwide. She is the immediate past chair of the American Association of Museums and serves as a Trustee of the Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation. She is married to U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii.
Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe (New York, NY) is an adjunct professor of writing at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. From 2002 until 2005, Elizabeth worked at the New-York Historical Society as an associate editor and contributing writer for the New-York Journal of History, the Society’s research publication. Previous to that, from 1987 to 1997, Elizabeth was associated with the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich as an archives assistant, writer, and founding editor of the Society’s research journal, Greenwich History. In 2009, Elizabeth completed a Master of Liberal Arts degree in American Studies at the City University of New York, specializing in urban history. Elizabeth and her husband, Bob, have been involved in several personal preservation projects, including the restoration of their 1790s Vermont farmhouse and its adjacent barns. The parents of two adult children, Elizabeth and Bob divide their time between Manhattan and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Daniel P. Jordan (Charlottesville, VA) is President Emeritus of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which owns and operates Monticello, and is the author of three books.
Diane Keaton (Beverly Hills, CA) is an actress, director, producer and author. She is the Los Angeles Conservancy's Vice-President of Education and Community Relations.
Elizabeth Kennan, Ph.D. (Danville, KY) is a partner in Cambus-Kenneth Bloodstock, LLC (cattle and thoroughbred horses). She is President Emeritus of Mount Holyoke College.
Nancy Killefer (Washington, DC) is a senior Director at the Washington, DC Office of McKinsey & Company, Inc. and a leader of their Global Public Sector Practice.
Marcia V. Mayo (Washington, DC) is the Director of Publications and Special Projects for the U.S. Department of State’s ART in Embassies Program, and has curated thematic exhibitions of American art for U.S. embassy residences worldwide. A former director of Sotheby’s Mid Atlantic Office, she is a member of the Department’s Cultural Resources Committee, which selects U.S. embassy properties for inclusion on the Secretary of State's Register of Culturally Significant Property. Originally from Tulsa, Ms. Mayo co-founded the Ruth and Allen Mayo Fund for Historic Preservation in Oklahoma.
Molly McUsic (Chevy Chase, MD) is President of the Wyss Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to conserving land in the American West. Previously Ms. McUsic served in the Clinton Administration as Counselor to the Interior Secretary. Before joining the Clinton Administration she was a tenured professor at the University of North Carolina Law School, where she taught Property and Natural Resources Law and published numerous articles. Ms. McUsic is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and of Harvard Law School. She also clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Vincent L. Michael, Ph.D. (Oak Park, IL) is John H. Bryan Chair of Historic Preservation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has been Director of the Historic Preservation Program since 1996 and a teacher since 1994.
F. Joseph Moravec (Bethesda, MD) is an independent advisor to public and private owners of real estate, operating companies and non-profits, in the areas of transaction management, asset management and organizational strategy.His 35 year career has been spent as practitioner, manager and owner of investment property and commercial real estate services companies. From June of 2001 through July of 2005, he was the Commissioner of Public Buildings of the U.S. General Services Administration.
Martin L. J. Newman (Tulsa, OK) is a realtor. He served on the National Trust Board of Advisors for nine years and was Co-chair of the 2008 National Preservation Conference held in Tulsa, OK.
Judy O’Bannon (Indianapolis, IN) has spent much of her life working on behalf of her state and local communities, and as First Lady of Indiana was a champion of the state’s Main Street program. Currently, she is the director of external affairs for Peace House. Mrs. O’Bannon also chairs the 25-member Indiana 2016 Task Force.
Gay Ratliff (Austin, TX) is the principal of Gay Ratliff Interior Design in Austin, Texas. She is a past president of the Heritage Society of Austin. She has also been an active board member with Friends of the Governor's Mansion, a group which oversees the property and its collections for the past 20 years.
Marita Rivero (Brookline, MA) is Vice President and General Manager of Radio and Television for WGBH, a Boston-based public broadcasting organization. She has served on the National Trust Board of Advisors for the past 7 years. Ms. Rivero is also on the Board of Directors of the Museum for African American History and National Public Radio.
Jeffrey H. Schutz (Clyde Park, MT) is currently a managing director of Centennial Ventures, a Denver-based venture capital firm with approximately $1 billion of assets under management.
Barbara G. Sidway (Baker City, OR) is a private developer who restores and manages historic properties in partnership with her husband Dwight. Award-winning projects include the Geiser Grand Hotel, The Oddfellows Building, the Biltmore Hotel, Venetian Pool, and the Freedom Tower.
Matthew R. Simmons (Houston, TX) is Chairman of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm. Mr. Simmons is a Trustee of The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. He serves on the Board of Directors of Brown-Forman Corporation, The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (Boston), Houston Technology Center (Houston) and the Center for Houston’s Future (Houston). Along with his wife, he served as Co-Chairman of the National Trust Council.
Mary M. Thompson (Olympia, WA) manages, along with her husband Dick, Thompson Consulting, which provides services in historic preservation, planning, public policy, and project management. Ms. Thompson was a Statewide Coordinator of the Washington Downtown Revitalization Program, a Program Associate for the National Main Street Center and also served as Washington State Historic Preservation Officer.
Daniel K. Thorne (Georges Mills, NH) is President of Star Lake Capital, Inc., a private equity management and venture capital firm.
Kenneth R. Woodcock (Washington, DC and Matunuck, RI) is a consultant to the Hale House, an historic site of the Pettaquamscutt Historical Society. He currently serves on the boards of the Land Trust Alliance and the Dunes Club (Narragansett, RI). He is President of the Board of the Willow Dell Historical Association in Rhode Island, and a Corporation Member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Mtamanika Youngblood (Atlanta, GA) is the Director of Neighborhood Transformation for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Atlanta Civic Site and the Chair of the Board of the Historic District Development Corporation.
Ex-Officio Trustees:
Linda Barnett (Oklahoma City, OK) is the representative to the Board of Trustees for the Main Street Coordinators. Ms. Barnett is Director of the Oklahoma Main Street Center.
Marsh Davis (Indianapolis, IN) represents statewide & local preservation organizations in the National Trust’s Statewide & Local Partners program on the Board of Trustees. Mr. Davis is the President of Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana.
Jeffrey C. Grip, Ph.D. (Owings Mills, MD) is the chair of the National Trust Historic Site Boards. Dr. Grip is a partner at Witmer & Associates.
Edward Passarelli (Represents Eric Holder, Attorney General) is the Assistant Chief of the Natural Resources Section of the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Earl A. Powell, III (Landover, MD) is the Director of the National Gallery of Art.
Will Shafroth (Represents Kenneth Salazar, Secretary of the Interior) is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, United States Department of the Interior.
Timothy P. Whalen (Los Angeles, CA) is the chair of the National Trust Board of Advisors. Mr. Whalen is the Director of the Getty Conservation Institute.
