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Board Members 2012-13

 

The Virginia Living Museum is governed by a board of 24 elected and 5 appointed trustees. Appointed trustees represent  the Museum’s two founding organizations, the Warwick Rotary Club and the Junior League of Hampton Roads, plus the Hampton City Council and School Board, and ROMP, the Museum's young professionals group. 
  
Board of Trustees
 
Elected Trustees
  • President
    Dawn T. Hunt, DMD
    Dentist, Hunt Smile Design

  • President-Elect
    Brian K. Skinner
    President, TowneBank Peninsula

     
  • Secretary
    Kathy Howell
    President & Creative Director, Howell Creative Group

     
  • Treasurer
    William R. Ermatinger
    Corporate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.


  • Past-President
    Charles W. Wornom
    President, Abbitt Management 


  • Randy Abbitt
    CEO, National Exterminating of Newport News

  • Rolf Bartschi
    Vice President, Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Carrier Construction, Newport News Shipbuilding

  • Melanie Rapp Beale
    External Affairs Manager, Dominion Virginia Power


  • Regina P. Brayboy
    Director of Financial Services, Virginia International Terminals, Inc.

  • Bill Brundage
    Vice President of Finance, Ferguson Enterprises

  • William H. Carr
    Senior Vice President & Williamsburg Market Executive, Virginia Company Bank

  • Kurt Dellos
    Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Smithfield Packing Co., Inc.

  • Jerri Fuller Dickseski
  • Corporate Vice President, Communications, Huntington Ingalls Industries
  • Robert Foster
    Williamsburg

  • William M. Grace
    Yorktown

  • Philip L. Hatchett
    Partner, Kaufman & Canoles, P.C.

  • Jane Jordan Ishon
    Director of Development, St. Andrew's Episcopal School

  • Howard D. McFadden
    Corporate Secretary, Norfolk Southern Corporation

  • Sharron Kitchen Miller
    Newport News

  • Nancy F. Morter
    Director, Program Development, Riverside Health System

  • Donald N. Patten
    Partner, Patten Wornom Hatten & Diamonstein

  • John Phillips
    President, Phillips Energy, Inc.

  • Elisabeth Williams
    Vice President Strategy, Marketing & Development, Riverside Health System

  • Joseph R. Witt
    Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Old Point National Bank

     
    Appointed Members

    • Stephen M. Abbitt
      Corporate Development, Property Management, Abbitt Management, LLC
    • Lorraine K. Hall
      The Junior League of Hampton Roads, Inc.
    • Councilman Donnie Tuck
      Hampton City Council
    • Martha Mugler
    • Hampton School Board
    • Charles C. Yost, Jr.
      Warwick Rotary
     

    Board of Advisors
    Many former trustees continue to serve the museum in an advisory capacity.

    • Carolyn S. Abbitt
      Newport News
    • Charles A. Banks
      Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.   
    • Mari Ann Banks
      Gloucester
    • John Biagas
      CEO, Bay Electric Co., Inc.

    • Lois Bowman
      Newport News
    • Gerald R. Brink
      Executive Director, Peninsula Community Foundation
    • Thomas R. Brooks, C.P.A.
      PBMares, LLP
    • Dean Canavos
      Co-President/Treasurer, Canavos Properties, Inc.

    • Jerome F. Clark
      Retired, SunTrust Bank
    • William B. Downey
      President and Chief Operating Officer, Riverside Health System
    • John H. Garrett, III
      Retired, Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.
    • John Gillespie
      Newport News

    • Ralph M. Goldstein
      Partner, Jones, Bleckman, Woltz & Kelly
    • George R. Goodson, Jr.
      Retired, Warwick Plumbing & Heating Corp.
    • Mary Sherwood Holt, chair
      Newport News
    • Lynn Hornsby
      North

    • Willard D. Hoskins, III
      Retired, Merrill Lynch
    • Allen R. Jones, Jr., P.T.
      CEO, Dominion Physical Therapy & Associates
    • Herbert V. Kelly, Jr.
      Partner, Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly
    • John R. Lawson, II
      President and CEO, W.M. Jordan Co.
    • Jeffrey Luckman
      Vice President, Livestock Procurement, Smithfield Foods, Inc.

    • Dr. John Q.A. Mattern II
      Virginia Oncology Associates
    • Jeffrey L. Mendelsohn
      President, Virginia Health Services
    • Mary Oder
      Tax Supervisor, PBMares, LLP

    • Michael Petters
      President and Chief Executive Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.
    • Conway Sheild III
      Partner, Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly
    • Turner M. Spencer, Ed.D.
      Hampton
    • James B. Thomas, Jr.
      Retired, Wolseley PLC

     

    Endowment Board of Advisors  

    • George R. Goodson, Jr.
    • Herbert V. Kelly, Jr. 
    • Jeffrey L. Mendelsohn
    • Charles R. Spencer, Jr.
    • Harry H. Wason
       
       
     

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