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Board Members
The Virginia Living Museum is governed by a board of elected and appointed trustees. Appointed trustees represent the Museum’s two founding organizations, the Warwick Rotary Club and the Junior League of Hampton Roads, plus the Newport News City Council and School Board, Hampton City Council and School Board, and young professionals.
Board of Trustees
Elected Trustees
President
Ashby Kilgore
Superintendent (Retired), Newport News Public Schools
President-Elect
Sarah Messersmith
Attorney, Kaufman and Canoles
Secretary
Melvin James Ferebee, Jr.
Director, Systems Analysis and Concepts NASA Langely Research Center
Treasurer
Lewis Smith
Vice President, Finance, Bayport Credit Union
Past-President
Karen Velkey
Corporate Vice President of Compensation & Benefits, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Kenneth Radecki
Director, Facilities, Safety & Environment, Canon Virginia, Inc.
James C. Burnett
Vice President, CFO, W.M. Jordan Company, Inc.
William Austin
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Riverside Health System
Kevin Banks
President of Innovative Vision Technologies, Inc.
Herbert H. Bateman, Jr.
Executive Vice President, TowneBank
James C. Burnett
Controller, W.M. Jordan Company, Inc.
Bryan Caccavale
Vice President, Naval Programs, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Jarryd Carver
Dealer Principal, Winners Circle Automotive Group
Heather Duncan
Senior Director of Marketing and Community Engagement, Virginia Health System, Inc.
Rebecca Francese
Senior Environmental Scientist, Waterway Survey and Engineering, Ltd.
Lauren Jett
Operations Manager, Tommy Garner Air Conditioning & Heat
Page Kremp
Owner/Event Coordinator, Jeff’s Flowers, Of Course! Inc.
Cleon M. Long
Huntington Ingalls Industry
Taylor Montgomery Mason
Senator, Senate of Virginia
Michelle Price
Director of Public Information and Community Involvement, NNPS
Tatrece Swann
Sr. Systems Engineer Mgr, Northrup Grumman
Molly Joseph Ward
Retired Treasurer, City of Hampton
Steve Whetstine
Partner, KPMG
Appointed Members
Mr. Christopher Walton
Warwick at City Center Rotary Club
Ms. Susan Goodwin
City of Newport News
Ms. Rebecca Aman
Newport News School Board
Ms. Lorraine Hall
Junior League of Hampton Roads
Board of Advisors
Many former trustees continue to serve the museum in an advisory capacity.
Carolyn S. Abbitt
Abbitt Realty & Abbitt Management
Randy Abbitt
CEO, National Exterminating, Inc.
Stephen Abbitt
Managing Director, Abbitt Realty & Abbitt Management
Mari Ann Banks
Gloucester
Alonzo Bell Jr.
CCIM, Randolph Real Estate Services Co.
Len Bennett
Founding Partner, Consumer Litigation Assoc.
John F. Biagas
CEO/President, Bay Electric Co., Inc.
Regina P. Brayboy
Executive Director, Suffolk Partnership for a Healthy Community
Thomas R. Brooks, C.P.A.
Retired, PBMares, LLP
William S. Brundage
CFO, Ferguson Enterprises
Jeffrey R. Carlson, M.D.
President, OSC Orthopaedic & Spine Center
Jerri Fuller Dickseski
Executive Vice President, Communications, Huntington Ingalls Industries
William B. Downey
President/Chief Executive Officer, Riverside Health System
William R. Ermatinger
Corporate VP/Chief HR Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.
Tommy A . Garner
President, Tommy Garner Air Conditioning & Heating, inc.
John H. Garrett III
Retired, Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.
John J. Gillespie, Jr.
Vice President of Marketing, American Standard Brands
Ralph M. Goldstein
Partner, Jones, Bleckman, Woltz & Kelly, P.C.
George R. Goodson, Jr.
Retired, Warwick Plumbing & Heating Corp.
William M. Grace
Retired, Grace Industries, Inc.
Lynn Hornsby
North
William D. Hoskins III
Retired, Merrill Lynch
Katherine A. Howell
President/Creative Director, Howell Creative Group
Herbert V. Kelly, Jr.
Vice President & Director, Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly, P.C.
John R. Lawson II
President and CEO, W.M. Jordan Company, Inc.
Nancy L. Levin
President, Newport Management Company, Inc.
Jeffrey M. Luckman
President, Luckman Enterprises, LLC
Dr. John Q.A. Mattern II, D.O.
Virginia Oncology Associates
Judy T. Morris
Retired, Newport News
Ross Mugler
Commissioner of the Revenue, City of Hampton
Donald N. Patten
Partner, Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamnonstein, LLC
John F. Phillips
President, Phillips Energy, Inc.
Conway H. Sheild III
Chairman, Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly, P.C.
Brian K. Skinner
President, TowneBank Peninsula/Williamsburg
James B. Thomas, Jr.
Retired, Wolseley PLC
Joseph R. Witt
SEVP, Chief Business Development Officer, Old Point National Bank
Charles W. Wornom
President, Abbitt Realty Group, Inc.
Endowment Board of Advisors
Herbert V. Kelly, Jr.
Charles W. Wornom