Chair

Everett "Ben" Howerton, Jr.

Thirty years as an academic and executive educator at the local, state and university levels; professor and Director of Leadership and Policy Studies at George Washington University, Emeritus status with specialty in law and public policy; faculty, University of Virginia; served on Governors’ and Congressional Commissions directed at elevating standards for educational personnel and expanded use of technology; former President and CEO of National Information and Educational Utility, and Synergy, Inc.; consultant and strategic facilitator, under the auspices of USAID, to Afghanistan and ministries in Central America, South America and Germany; administrative law arbiter and grievance mediator; member of numerous boards

Vice Chair
Phyllis M. Rubinstein
Partner, Goodman Allen & Filetti; member America Bar Association, Real Property Section; board member, Enterprise Circle Jewish Federation of Richmond; past chair Richmond Business Council of Greater Richmond Chamber; served on boards of Jewish Family Services and Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation; since 2004, named one of Virginia's "Legal Elite" by Virginia Business; since 2005, named one of Virginia's "Super Lawyers" and "Top Female Lawyer" by Law and Politics; recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" and named one of the "Top 20 Women in Commercial Real Estate in the Metropolitan Richmond Area" by Commercial Real Estate Women Chapter, 2010; fellow, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers

Secretary
Carthron P. (Cork) Coyner
President, Benefits Administration Inc.; formerly with Craigie Incorporated and Sovran Financial Corporation; serves on board of Southeastern District, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; graduate of Leadership Metro Richmond - Class of 1994

Retired; former Executive Vice President, Performance Food Group; board of trustees, Science Museum of Virginia; board member, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (chair); Memorial Child Guidance Clinic (ChildSavers); former board member, Rare Hospitality, Int'l; Science Museum of Virginia Foundation; St. Catherine's School, Maymont Foundation; participant in Muslim-Christian dialogue; steering committee, The Center for Interfaith Reconciliation, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Trustee and Honorary Chair
Tommy P. Baer
Partner, CanfieldBaer; former president, B'nai B'rith International; national commissioner, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith International; member, board of associates, University of Richmond; member, board of trustees, World Affairs Council of Richmond; member, board of directors, Richmond Historic Riverfront Foundation

Trustee and President, First Freedom Center
Ambassador Randolph Marshall Bell
Former Ambassador at Large and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues (2002-2003), Acting Deputy Asst. Secretary of State for NATO and Bilateral Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs (2001); Dir., German, Austrian and Swiss Affairs (2001-2002); U.S. Dept. of State, Acting Amb., U.S. Embassy, Bern (1999-2000); Dir., U.K., Ireland, Benelux Affairs (1996-1999); Dir., Russian and Eurasian Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1996); Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Embassy Brussels (1989-1993); Counselor for Political and Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy Prague (1985-1988)

Chief Executive Officer of Data Concepts, an information technology consulting firm specializing in the design & development of enterprise-wide software systems; Board of the Governor's Workforce Development Council; Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, World Affairs Council of Richmond; Board of Directors, The Richmond Symphony; Board Member, National Association of Women Business Owners; appointed as Co-Chair, Governor Warner's Advisory Board for the Women's Business Council, Commonwealth of Virginia; Advisory Board, First Community Bank and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Patrons Committee

Trustee
The Very Rev. Dr. C. N. Dombalis
Retired former Dean of the Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Richmond; named Outstanding Clergyman in the United States in Religious Education; served as a delegate to the United Nations, where he helped author the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and was appointed to the White House Conference for Religious Leaders; served as an appointee to the Virginia Middle East Commission and Commissioner to UNESCO, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council

Trustee
Professor A.E. Dick Howard
White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at University of Virginia; widely acknowledged as an expert in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, and the Supreme Court and is consulted on constitutional issues by the Virginia General Assembly, and other state and federal bodies; is consulted by constitutional draftsmen in other states and abroad and has compared notes with revisors at work on new constitutions in such places as Brazil, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Albania, Malawi, South Africa, India, and Swaziland

Trustee
Neil S. Kessler
Partner, Richmond office of Troutman Sanders LLP; Vice-Chair, Commercial Real Estate Transactions Group of the Real Property Section of American Bar Assoc. and past Chair of Committee on Property, Casualty and other Non-Title Insurance, as well as the Committee on Design and Construction Contracts; authorship includes the Virginia law section of ABA publication "A State-By-State Guide to Construction and Design Law"; past Chair, Virginia State Bar Real Estate Section and active member of it's Board of Governors; serves on Boards of Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Metro Richmond, Valentine History Center, Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Foundation. Recognized as a Virginia Super Lawyer in real estate law

Trustee
Fritz Kling
President, Kling Philanthropy Group LLC; prior Executive Director, The Parker Foundation; co-founder, Metro Richmond at Prayer; co-founder, The Carver Promise; participant in Muslim-Christian dialogue, Hope in the Cities; member, Board of Visitors, Regent Law; founding Board member, Richmond Christian Leadership Institute

Trustee
Glade M. Knight
Chairman and CEO, Cornerstone Realty Income Trust, Inc.; founder, chairman, president and CEO Apple Suites, Inc. and Apple Hospitality Two, Inc; advisory board member, Graduate School of Real Estate and Urban Land Development, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., and member of the University's Real Estate Circle of Excellence; founding member and active lecturer Entrepreneurial Department of the Marriott Graduate School of Business Mgmt., Brigham Young Univ.; chairman of the board, Southern Virginia Univ.; former pres., Richmond Virginia Chesterfield Stake (diocese) and former bishop, Midlothian, Va., congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Trustee
Cynthia N. Krumbein
Active exhibiting artist, travel and wildlife photography; former Executive Director and Archivist, Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives, 1983-1996, 2005-2006; former President, The Complete Exhibitionists, designing building and installing exhibitions for non-profit organizations, 1996-2005; former board member, The Steward School, Keneseth Beth Israel Synagogue, and Weinstein Jewish Community Center; committee member, Richmond Jewish Community Federation, Impact 100 and Focus Group Camera Club

Trustee
Tina Ramirez
Director of Government Relations, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; former foreign-policy advisor and expert on international religious freedom for Congressman Gus M. Bilirakis, Senator Roger Wicker and Congressman Trent Franks; prior to working in Congress, was policy researcher at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, focusing on international organizations, Latin America, and Central Europe; has spoken before the United Nations Human Rights Council, various congressional briefings, and traveled extensively throughout the world to address human rights; author of secondary-education curricula to promote human rights, with most recent teaching curriculum highlighting international religious freedom

Trustee
Mark B. Sisisky
Managing Partner, Caprin Asset Management; Past President, Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and the Richmond Jewish Foundation; President, United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg Endowment Foundation; Board of Directors, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, based in New York City

Trustee
Most Rev. Walter F. Sullivan
Bishop, Richmond Diocese; bishop-president, Pax Christi USA (National Catholic Peace Movement); board member, Christian Children's Fund; board member, Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy; board member, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy; board member, Catholic Committee of Appalachia

Trustee
Marilyn H. West
Chairman & CEO, M. H. West & Co., Inc.; chair of the board of directors, Bon Secours Health Care System Acute Care Board, the Richmond Hospital Authority which owns the Seven Hills Health Care Center, and Leadership Metro Richmond; trustee of Project Exile, the Children's Museum, the Children's Home Society, Richmond Renaissance, the Metropolitan Business League and the National Association of Women Business Owners

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