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 (winter, spring and fall). There are six Board committees (Audit, Finance & Management, Fundraising, Marketing & Business Development, Preservation & Historic Sites, and Trusteeship & Governance). Carolyn Schwenker Brody of Washington, DC is Chair of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In addition, Jorge L. Hernandez, Daniel K. Thorne and Kenneth R. Woodcock serve as Vice Chairs of the Board.
Victor Ashe (Knoxville, TN) completed five years as the American Ambassador to Poland on October 1, 2009. Prior to that, he was 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.
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 & Country Estate. Previously, she was at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, servings 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 Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Ms. Brody 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 2002. 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 Kentucky and has worked with the Kentucky Heritage Council to preserve numerous buildings in historical Bloomfield, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In recognition of her conservation and preservation efforts in Kentucky, Linda was presented with a Preservation Project Award given by the Ida Lee Willis Memorial Awards Foundation and the Kentucky Heritage Council. In addition, she serves on the Advisory Board of the Flannery O’Connor Foundation in Savannah, Georgia. In 2005, The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home dedicated the Bruckheimer Library, which houses papers and work of the author. She is an active member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Conservancy, serves on the Kentucky Film Commission and co-founded, along with Sarabande Books, the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. Recently, she was given a Doctorate Degree by Centre College for her accomplishments and record of service in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Mrs. Laura W. Bush (Dallas, TX) is actively involved in issues of national and global concern, with a particular emphasis on education, health care and human rights. She has investigated and showcased successful programs for early childhood education, at-risk youth, global literacy, and preservation of our national parks and our country’s national treasures. And through her travels to more than seventy-six countries, including historic trips to Afghanistan, Mrs. Bush has helped launch groundbreaking educational and healthcare programs for women. Mrs. Bush holds a degree in education with a master’s degree in library science. She taught in public schools in Dallas, Houston and Austin and worked as a public school librarian. In 1977, she met and married George Walker Bush. They are the parents of twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.
Susan E. Chapman (Brooklyn, NY) is Senior Vice President, Global Real Estate and Workplace Enablement for American Express. Ms. Chapman is responsible for global real estate operations supporting the American Express portfolio of over 65,000 employees in 41 countries. Her volunteer work includes serving on the boards of the Executive Leadership Foundation, Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) and the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Advisory Board. She is an advisor to several organizations including The Brotherhood Sistersol and the Global Syndicate. Ms. Chapman holds a Master of Business Administration in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a Master of Regional Planning from The University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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 and Chicago) is a former newspaper reporter, editor and publisher in New Orleans, Chicago, Virginia and Connecticut. He works as a volunteer on projects to enhance the urban landscape of New Orleans, including the long-term recovery of the city from Hurricane Katrina. He is a member of the board of the Congress for the New Urbanism and president of Smart Growth for Louisiana.
Christopher J. Elliman (New York, NY) serves as CEO of the Open Space Institute, a land conservation organization that has protected and/or financed close to 2 million acres and created over 50 new parks or protected areas in the eastern United States. Mr. Elliman has also worked in the corporate sector as CEO of Overhills Group and partner of Elmrock Partners, private equity concerns, and as President of Gray, Seifert, an investment company. He chairs the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Overhills Foundation and has chaired The Wilderness Society and the Adirondack Council. He has served on numerous non-profit and philanthropic boards, principally in conservation and cultural institutions. Mr. Elliman received his B.A. from Yale and now serves on Yale University’s Forestry and Environmental Leadership Council.
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.
Joe Grills (Rapidan, VA) serves as Chairman of the Montpelier Foundation which manages the Presidential Home of James and Dolley Madison. He also serves on the Boards of Woodberry Forest School and Kimco Realty, and is a member of a number of investment organizations.
F. Sheffield Hale (Atlanta, GA) is the Chief Counsel of the American Cancer Society, Inc. Prior to joining the American Cancer Society in 2002 he was a Partner practicing corporate law in the firm of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. Mr. Hale is a Past Chair of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, the Atlanta Historical Society, and the State of Georgia’s Judicial Nominating Commission. Mr. Hale also serves as Vice Chair of the Arch Foundation for the University of Georgia, Inc, a Trustee of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center, a Trustee of Atlanta Landmarks, Inc., and a member of the Board of Central Atlanta Progress, Inc.
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.
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.
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.
Fernando Lloveras San Miguel (San Juan, Puerto Rico) is the Director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, a position he has held since January 1, 2003. The Conservation Trust is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the natural and historical treasures of the islands of Puerto Rico. Lloveras San Miguel is also co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Microjuris.com, Inc. This private company, founded in 1992, is the leading internet provider of legal and legislative information in Latin America with operations in Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and National Council of the Land Trust Alliance. Lloveras San Miguel holds a Magna Cum Laude Juris Doctor degree from the University of Puerto Rico, a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College (Senior Fellow). He is married to Michelle Marxuach and is the father of two.
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.
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 (Washington, DC) 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.
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.
Charles Morgan Royce (Riverside, CT) is President, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Royce & Associates, LLC and its affiliated mutual funds, a position he has held since 1972. Mr. Royce is a member of the Board of Fellows of Brown University, a Trustee and Honorary Chairman of Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, and a Trustee of the New York Historical Society. He is active in preservation and main street development in Tannersville, NY and Westerly, RI. Mr. Royce’s most recent initiative is the reconstruction of The Ocean House, a Victorian hotel in Watch Hill, RI. He and his wife have recently restored and operate the Avon Theater in Stamford, CT.
Jeffrey H. Schutz (Clyde Park, MT) is currently a managing director of Centennial Ventures, a Denver-based venture capital firm with approximately $750 million of assets under management. Since joining the firm in 1987, he has been directly involved with financing more than one hundred investments and helping entrepreneurs build valuable sustainable businesses. He has served on the Boards of numerous private and public companies. Presently, he is on the Boards of Centennial Ventures, CenterStone Technologies, Inc., Accellos, Inc., Sonic Corp. and the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League. When not in Charleston, he and his wife, Charlotte Caldwell can be found in Clyde Park, Montana, raising beef cattle and growing hay. Mr. Schutz received a BA in Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA degree from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.
Barbara G. Sidway (Baker City, OR and Palm Beach, FL) 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.
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, N.H.) 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.
Ex-Officio Trustees
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.
Stephanie Toothman, Ph.D. (Represents Kenneth Salazar, Secretary of the Interior) is Associate Director for Cultural Resources, National Park Service.
Monica D. Miller (Charleston, WV) is the chair of the National Trust Board of Advisors.
Kim J. Trent (Knoxville, TN) represents statewide & local preservation organizations in the National Trust’s Statewide & Local Partners Program on the Board of Trustees. Ms. Trent is the Executive Director of Knox Heritage.
Cary Tyson (Little Rock, AR) is the representative to the Board of Trustees of the Main Street Coordinators. Mr. Tyson is Director of Main Street Arkansas.
Nancy Bliss (Bethesda, MD) is the chair of the National Trust Historic Sites Councils & Boards.
