Chair
Tommy P. Baer
Partner, Canfield, Baer, Heller & Johnston; 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

Council President and CEO
Ambassador Robert A. Seiple

See Staff page for bio.

First Vice Chair
Charles T. Peters
Retired; former Director, Richmond Department of Community Development, 1980-1997; President, Board of Directors, Virginia Commonwealth University Real Estate Foundation; Chairman, Board of Commissioners, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority

Vice Chair
Muhammad S. Sahli, Ph.D.
Retired president, Health Care Concepts; member, board of trustees, Islamic Center of Virginia; co-chair, Arab-Jewish Interfaith Council on Public Policy; member board of directors, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Vice Chair
Rev. Cessar L. Scott
Executive minister, Baptist General Convention of Virginia; trustee, Virginia Union University; member, Corporate Board of the National Baptist Publishing Board; board member, Progressive National Baptist Convention; executive committee member, Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention

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

Treasurer
Sydney S. Wooding
Vice President, Rappahannock Goodwill Industries; former partner with Witt, Mares and Company; assists small businesses and individuals with tax planning, business planning and compliance needs; senior member of the firm's not-for-profit services group; serves more than 60 non-profit clients primarily in the Richmond Metropolitan Area and is an acknowledged expert in not-for-profits

Trustee
Ambassador Randolph Marshall Bell
Executive Director, World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond; 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)

Trustee
Jackson L. Blanton
Retired; former vice president and community affairs officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; chairman, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts Advisory Board; board member, Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond SPCA and Randolph-Macon College Arts Advisory Board; past president, Collector's Circle, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; past chairman, City of Richmond Public Art Commission; past chairman, Art Services Network

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
Diana F. Cantor
Executive director, Virginia College Savings Plan; CPA and State Bar member, Virginia, New York and Florida; former vice president, Goldman Sachs, New York; appointee, Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; president and founder, Virginia College Dream Foundation; board member, Virginia Performing Arts Foundation and Shady Grove YMCA; chair of executive board, National College Savings Plan Network; former co-chair, Partnership for the Future

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
Hugh F. Gouldthorpe, Jr.
Vice president, quality and communications, Owens and Minor; member Virginia Senate Productivity and Quality Award Board and Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce Crime Committee; board of directors, Action Alliance, Children's Museum of Richmond, City Celebrations, Massey Cancer Center, United Way of Greater Richmond, Richmond Rotary Club, YMCA of Greater Richmond, Police Athletic League; advisory board member, VCU School of Pharmacy; motivational speaker and writer in marketing, communications, leadership and total quality management

Trustee
R. Spencer Hines, Jr.
Sterling Business Credit Network; board of directors, Richmond Ballet, Richmond Symphony, Federated Arts Council, Memorial Guidance Clinic, Richmond Memorial Hospital, United Way, Riverside School, Virginia Amateur Sports Inc.

Trustee
David L. Holmes
Professor of religion, The College of William and Mary; also taught at Carnegie-Mellon and University of Virginia; awarded Outstanding Faculty Award of the Commonwealth of Virginia; editor; author; and lecturer

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
Fritz Kling
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
George K. Martin
Partner, McGuire Woods LLP, Real Estate and Environmental Department; board of directors, the Housing and Development Law Institute; affiliate member, American Institute of Architects; member National Association of Bond Lawyers, Virginia State Bar Association Section on Construction and Public Contracts, and the American Bar Association Sections on State and Local Government and Real Estate; member Board of Visitors, James Madison University and Regent University School of Law

Trustee
Rev. James F. McDonald
Former General Minister, Virginia Council of Churches; former United Methodist campus minister, University of Virginia

Trustee
Professor Robert M. O'Neil
Founding director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression at the University of Virginia; former president of the University of Virginia. He continues as a member of the University's law faculty, teaching courses in constitutional law of free speech, and church and state, First Amendment and the arts, and a new course entitled "Free Speech in Cyberspace." Also serves as president of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government and as chairman of WVPT Public Television; author of several books and articles in law reviews and other journals

Trustee
S. Buford Scott
Chairman, Scott & Stringfellow, Inc.; co-chair City of Richmond Committee on Efficiency and Effectiveness; board member: VA Foundation for Research and Economic Education; Elk Hill Farm, Inc. (Boy's Farm) (chair); St. Paul's Church Endowment Fund; Sheltering Arms Foundation; Virginia Friends of High Speed Rail Association; Virginia Mentoring Partnership (chair); Member National Council on Economic Education; Virginia Council of Education; board member New Market Corporation (formerly Ethyl Corp.).

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

Trustee
Rodney A. Smolla
Dean, Washington & Lee School of Law; formerly Dean and George E. Allen Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law; previously Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law; from 1988 to 1996 was Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William and Mary; was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation; is author or co-author of eleven books - his book Free Speech in an Open Society (Alfred A. Knopf 1992) won the William O. Douglas Award as the year’s best monograph on freedom of expression.

Trustee
James D. Standish
Director of Legislative Affairs, Seventh-day Adventists Church world headquarters; his work to build coalitions among diverse faith groups to press for religious liberty is widely respected in Washington; he has presented on religious liberty issues in a number of nations, and in a variety of settings here in the United States; has written widely on topics related to freedom of conscience

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
Addision B. (Tad) Thompson
Owner, Tuckahoe Plantation, Goochland, Virginia; agent, FIL Insurance Company; affiliated with Tredegar Trust Company; former president, Preservation Alliance of Virginia; founder, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Douglas Southall Freeman Branch; attorney

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

Trustee
Hal Wingo
Retired magazine editor with AOL Time Warner; far eastern regional editor of LIFE Magazine, directing coverage of Vietnam War; founding editor of PEOPLE Weekly Magazine, and later international editor of PEOPLE, overseeing international editions in Australia and Taiwan; former member of the board of regents, Baylor University; board of directors, Theatre Virginia; Richmond Hill Leadership Council

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