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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
Karen Velkey
Corporate Vice President of Compensation & Benefits, Huntington Ingalls Industries
President-Elect
Ashby Kilgore
Superintendent (Retired), Newport News Public Schools
Secretary
Sarah Messersmith
Attorney, Kaufman and Canoles
Treasurer
Lewis Smith
Vice President, Finance, Bayport Credit Union
Past-President
James C. Burnett
Vice President, CFO, W.M. Jordan Company, Inc.
William Austin
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Riverside Health System
Rebecca S. Aman
Attorney, Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly
Herbert H. Bateman, Jr.
Executive Vice President, TowneBank
Leonard A. Bennett, Esquire
Founding Partner, Consumer Litigation Associates, P.C
Donald B. Brown
Wealth Management Advisor, Northwestern Mutual
James C. Burnett
Controller, W.M. Jordan Company, Inc.
Bryan Caccavale
Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Micheal F. Carpenter
Development, Commercial Sales & Leasing; Drucker and Falk, LLC
Heather Duncan
Senior Director of Marketing and Community Engagement, Virginia Health System, Inc.
Melvin James Ferebee, Jr.
Director, Systems Analysis and Concepts NASA Langely Research Center
Rebecca Francese
Senior Environmental Scientist, Waterway Survey and Engineering, Ltd.
Bruce Hoogstraten
Implementation Manager, Faneuil
Ashby Kilgore
Retired Superintendent, NNPS
Cleon M. Long
Nuclear Engineer III, Shift Operations, Dominion Energy, Surry Power Station
Monty Mason
Senator, Senate of Virginia
Sarah Messersmith
Attorney, Kaufman & Canoles, P.C.
Ross A. Mugler
Commissioner of the Revenue, City of Hampton
Shawn E. Neighbor
Executive Director / Portfolio Management, Director Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Kenneth Radecki
Director, Facilities, Safety & Environment, Cannon Virginia, Inc.
Lewis Smith
Vice President of Finance, Bayport Credit Union
Karen Velkey
Corporate VP or Compensation & Benefits, Hunting Ingalls Industries
Molly Joseph Ward
Treasurer, City of Hampton
Steve Whetstine
Partner, KPMG
Appointed Members
Hon. Shelly Simonds
NNPS School Board
Mr. Brian DeProfio, Assistant City Manager
City Manager’s Office, City of Hampton
Ms. Susan Goodwin
Director of Finance, City of Newport News
Mr. Jesse Hutcheson
Warwick at City Center Rotary
Ms. Lorraine Hall
Junior League of Hampton Roads
Ms. Rebecca A. Kleinhample, Executive Director
The Virginia Living Museum
Board of Advisors
Many former trustees continue to serve the museum in an advisory capacity.
Carolyn S. Abbitt
Chairman of the Board, Abbitt Realty & Abbitt Management
Randy Abbitt
CEO, National Exterminating, Inc.
Charles A. Banks III
Retired, Gloucester
Mari Ann Banks
Gloucester
John F. Biagas
CEO/President, Bay Electric Co., Inc.
Lois Bowman
Newport News
Thomas R. Brooks, C.P.A.
PBMares, LLP
William S. Brundage
CFO, Ferguson Enterprises
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.
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.
Mary Sherwood Holt
Chair, Newport News
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.
Jeffrey M. Luckman
President, Luckman Enterprises, LLC
Dr. John Q.A. Mattern II, D.O.
Virginia Oncology Associates
Jeffrey L. Mendelsohn
CEO, Virginia Health Services
Judy T. Morris
Retired, Newport News
Donald N. Patten
Partner, Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamnonstein, LLC
John F. Phillips
President, Phillips Energy, Inc.
Barbara J. Reynolds
Retired Senior Major Gift Officer, Indiana University School of Medicine
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.
Jeffrey L. Mendelsohn,
Chair
Charles R. Spencer, Jr.
Charles W. Wornom