Board of Trustees
Chairman
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 2,700 Sonic Drive-In restaurants (NASDAQ: SONC).
Trustees
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.
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 (Wilmington, DE) has served as director and CEO of the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate since 1999.
Carolyn Schwenker Brody (Washington, DC) is the immediate past chair of the National Building Museum.
Linda Bruckheimer (Santa Monica, CA & Bloomfield, KY) is the author of two novels and a successful writer-producer.
Duane L. Burnham (Northbrook, IL) served as chairman and chief executive officer of Abbott Laboratories from 1990 to 1999. He currently serves as a director of Northern Trust Corporation and is a life trustee of Northwestern University.
Adele Chatfield-Taylor (New York, NY) is president of the American Academy in Rome, a center for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and humanities.
Spencer R. Crew, Ph.D. (Fairfax, 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) has over 25 years of real estate experience in Seattle, including development and property management, and 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 W. Davis (New Orleans and Chicago) 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.
Harvey B. Gantt, FAIA (Charlotte, NC) is a founding partner of Gantt Huberman Architects. In 1983, he was elected Charlotte’s first African-American Mayor, serving two successive terms.
Kumiki Gibson (Brooklyn, NY) is the 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.
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.
Irene Y. Hirano (Los Angeles, CA) is President and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, a position that she has held since 1988.
E. Renee Ingram (Washington, DC) is the President and Founder of the African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc. (AAHPF), a not-for-profit organization designed to provide awareness of endangered African American historic sties and to serve as an educational resource center for individuals, community groups, educational and historical genealogical societies and government entities.
Daniel P. Jordan (Charlottesville, VA) is president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which owns and operates Monticello.
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.
Jonathan M. Kemper (Kansas City, MO) served as Chairman of the Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Kemper is Vice Chairman of Commerce Bancshares, Inc., President of the Kansas City Public Library Board of Trustees, a member of the Executive Committee of the Downtown Council of Kansas City and is a director of the Kansas City Design Center. In 2002 he led a multi-million dollar restoration project of the 1908 National Bank of Commerce Building in downtown Kansas City, and the $50 million adaptive reuse of the former First National Bank Building into the new Central Library, which opened in 2005.
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.
Hartman Lomawaima (Tucson, AZ) is Hopi from the village of Sipaulovi, Second Mesa, Arizona. He is Director of the Arizona State Museum and a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Mr. Lomawaima is the first American Indian to head a state agency in Arizona and is the first American Indian to direct a state museum in the nation.
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.
Martin L. J. Newman (Tulsa, OK) is a realtor. He has served on the National Trust Board of Advisors for the last nine years and is Co-chair of the 2008 National Preservation Conference to be 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.
Jeffrey H. Schutz (Denver, CO) 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 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.
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) is a consultant to The AES Corporation, a global electric power company that generates and distributes electricity in 28 countries. He currently serves on the board of the Dunes Club and is a trustee of the Nature Conservancy (Rhode Island Chapter). He is President of the Board of the Willow Dell Historical Assoc. in Rhode Island, serves on the Board of Visitors of the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, 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
Mary A. Bomar (Represents Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior) is the Director of the National Park Service.
Linda Dishman (Los Angeles, CA) represents statewide & local preservation organizations in the National Trust’s Statewide & Local Partners program on the Board of Trustees. Ms. Dishman is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Conservancy.
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.
Monica D. Miller (Charleston, WV) is the representative to the Board of Trustees of the Main Street Coordinators. Ms. Miller is the State Coordinator of the West Virginia Main Street Program.
Edward Passarelli (Represents Michael B. Mukasey, 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.
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.
