Foundation Board of Directors

LEADERSHIP

Chair & President
Gov. James J. Blanchard
DLA Piper US LLP
Washington, DC

Vice Chair
Rodney Slater
Squire Patton Boggs
Washington, DC

Secretary
Marilynn Wood Hill
Author/Historian
Bronxville, NY

Vice President
Jacqueline B. Mars
Business Woman, Philanthropist
The Plains, VA

Vice President
Robert Mosbacher, Jr.
Mosbacher Energy Company
Washington, DC

Vice President
Lucinda Robb
Community Leader and Education Advocate
Washington, DC

Treasurer
Ross Swimmer
Swimmer Group, LLC
Tusla, OK

Counsel
William H. Minor
DLA Piper US LLP
Washington, DC

DISTINGUISHED HISTORIANS

Distinguished Historian
Michael Beschloss
Presidential Historian
Washington, DC

Past President and Distinguished Historian
A’Lelia Bundles
Author and Journalist
Washington, DC

Distinguished Historian
Ken Burns
Florentine Films
Walpole, NH

DIRECTORS

Director 
Kevin Brown
Norwich Community
Development Corporation
Guilford, CT

Director
Douglas Brinkley
Professor and Presidential Historian
Austin, TX

Director 
Steven W. Caple
Unity Hunt, Inc.
Dallas, TX

Director 
Anne S. Chao
Rice University
Houston, TX

Director
Charlie Dent
Congressman
Allentown, TX

Director 
Theresa Fariello
United Airlines
Washington, DC

Director 
Laurie S. Fulton
Community Leader
Alexandria, VA

Director
Jonathan Glickman
Panoramic Media
Los Angeles, CA

Director 
Mary W. Graham
Harvard University
Washington, DC

Director 
Fruzsina Harsanyi, Ph. D.
Consultant
Chevy Chase, MD

Director
Ambassador David Jacobson
BMO Financial Group
Chicago, IL

Director 
John Johnson
Edgeworth Economics
McLean, VA

Director 
Cameron F. Kerry
Brookings Institute
Boston, MA

Director
Ambassador Fay Hartog-Levin
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Chicago, IL

Director 
Rose Stuckey Kirk
Verizon
St. Louis, MO

Director 
Jon Leibman
Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Beverly Hills, CA

Director
Brad Meltzer
Author/Historian
Hollywood, FL

Director 
Mary C. Moynihan
Perkins Coie, LLP
Washington, DC

Director 
TAckeneil M. Muldrow, III
Weil Gotshal & Manges Private Equity Group
New York, NY

Director
Michele Norris
The Washington Post
Washington, DC

Director 
Lawrence F. O’Brien, III
The OB-C Group
Washington, DC

Director 
Soledad O’Brien
Soledad Productions
New York, NY

Director
Ziad Ojakli
The Boeing Company
Arlington, VA

Director 
Karen Pritzker
Seedlings Foundation
Branford, CT

Director 
Bruce Ramer
Gang Tyre Ramer and
Brown Inc.
Beverly Hills, CA

Director 
Rebecca Roberts
Planet World
Washington, DC

Director 
Susan P. Roberts
John Hancock Financial
Boston, MA

Director 
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
Uplands Real Estate Partners
Bethesda, MD

Director 
Gerry Salemme
Pendrell Corporations
Reston, VA

Director 
Marjorie B. Tiven
Global Cities, Inc.
New York, NY

Director 
David E. Weisman
Infra Holdings, LLC
Palm Beach, FL

Director
Thomas Wheeler
Brookings Institute
Washington, DC