Members

• Alan G. Spoon (chair), Regent, managing-general partner of Polaris Venture Partners and former president of The Washington Post Company


• Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Regent


• *L. Hardwick “Hacker” Caldwell, chair of the Smithsonian’s National Board and ex-officio of the Board of Regents, and president of TSWII Management Company


• *Anne d’Harnoncourt, former Regent, the George D. Widener director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences


• Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Regent


• *Walter E. Massey, former Regent, physicist and president of Morehouse College in Atlanta


• *Jeffrey Minear, administrative assistant to Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr., chancellor of the Smithsonian


• Roger W. Sant, Regent, co-founder of AES Corp. and chairman emeritus of its board, and chairman of the board of the Summit Foundation in Washington, D.C.


• *Irwin Shapiro, senior scientist and former director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics


• *Maxine Singer, president emerita of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Executive search firm Isaacson, Miller of Boston was retained to assist in conducting the search for the new Secretary.

* Non-Regent