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Museum Board

To provide expertise to the country’s only museum dedicated to telling the story of our nation, the National Museum of American History has established a board. Its function is to advise the director, to raise funds to support major Museum initiatives and exhibitions, and to recruit new board members from around the country to support the Museum’s mission.

The board currently has twenty-seven members, including noted historians, business and community leaders, and members of philanthropic organizations.

Board Members
A Tribute to Dick Darman, 1943-2008
David E. Behring
NMAH Board Alumnus; President, Wheelchair Foundation
Michael Beschloss
NMAH Board Member; Historian and Author
Curt Bradbury
NMAH Board Member; Chief Operating Officer & Director, Stephens, Inc.
Kathyrn C. Brown
NMAH Board Member; Senior Vice President, Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon Communications
Ellsworth H. Brown, Ph.D
NMAH Board Member; Director, Wisconsin Historical Society
Charles F. Bryan Jr., Ph.D.
NMAH Board Member; President & CEO, Virginia Historical Society
Victor G. Cabral
NMAH Board Member; Senior Counsel, Government Relations, NBC Universal
H.P. “Pete” Claussen
NMAH Board Alumnus; Chairman & CEO, Gulf & Ohio Railways, Inc.
The Honorable Thad Cochran (R-MS)
NMAH Board Member; Smithsonian Regent; United States Senator
Lester L. Colbert Jr.
NMAH Board Alumnus; Private Investor
George C. Freeman Jr.
NMAH Board Alumnus; Senior Partner, Hunton & Williams
Lesley Herrmann, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Member; Executive Director, The Gilder Lehrman Institute
Irene Hirano
NMAH Board Alumnus; President and CEO, Japanese American National Museum
Ambassador Philip Lader
NMAH Board Member; Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley
Francine LeFrak
NMAH Board Member; President, Whole Picture LeFrak Productions
Dorothy Lemelson
NMAH Board Alumnusi; President & Director, The Lemelson Foundation
Elizabeth (Betty) Sutton MacMillan
NMAH Board Alumnus; President, WEM Foundation
Ambassador Charles T. Manatt
NMAH Board Member; Founder & Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
David McCullough
NMAH Board Member; Historian and Author
James Mellor
NMAH Board Alumnus; Chairman, USEC
Tommy C. Morrison
NMAH Board Member; President, Pineywoods Properties, Inc.
Timothy J. O’Neill
NMAH Board Member; Co-Global Head of Investment Management and former Senior Strategy Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co
Libby Haight O'Connell, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Member; Vice Chairman, Advisory Board; Senior Vice President, Corporate Outreach and Chief Historian, A&E Television Networks
John F.W. Rogers
NMAH Board Member; Managing Director, Secretary, Board of Directors, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Elihu Rose, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Alumnus; Partner, Rose Associates, Inc.
David M. Rubenstein
NMAH Board Member; Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Vicki Ruiz, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Member; Professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies; Director, University of California, Irvine’s Humanities Out There outreach program
The Honorable Ivan Selin
Founding Chairman, NMAH Board Alumnus; CEO, Phoenix International
The Honorable Rodney E. Slater
NMAH Board Member; Chairman, Development Committee; Partner, Patton Boggs, LLP
Patricia (Pat) Head Summitt
NMAH Board Member; Head Women's Basketball Coach, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Riley K. Temple
NMAH Board Member; Partner, Halprin Temple
James G. Vella
NMAH Board Member; President, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services
Gail Berry West
NMAH Board Member; Former Director, Government Relations, Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Marvin D. Williams
NMAH Board Alumnus; President, Aptus, LLC
Judy Woodruff
NMAH Board Member; Former Senior News Correspondent & Anchor, CNN News
Tae Yoo
NMAH Board Alumnus; Vice President of Corporate Philanthropy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
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