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2025 Board of Directors


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CHAIR
Barron Collier
Past Chairman and Current Trustee,
Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY

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FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Bruce Eldredge 
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Retired Director,
​Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY


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SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Leland W. Peterson
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- Past Chairman, Current Trustee, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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- Advisory Board Member,
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA
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TREASURER 
Robert R. Lubera, Esq.
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- Emeritus Director, Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MI, Currently on Advisory Committee

- Emeritus Director, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit, MI, Currently on Advisory Committee
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SECRETARY
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Laura Wen-Yu Young
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- Trustee Emeritus,
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, ​Berkeley, CA

- Managing Partner,
Wang and Wang, LLP.,
San Francisco, CA​
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- General Secretary,
International Association of
​Law Schools
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IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
William R. Peelle Jr. 

​President Emeritus,
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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CHAIRMAN EMERITUS & DIRECTOR
Andrew L. Camden 

Emeritus Director,
Detroit ​Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 


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Margaret Benjamin
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​- Advisory Board Member, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA

- Board Member, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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- Past 
Board President, Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro, NC

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Richard J. Kelly
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- Board Member, The Norman        Rockwell Museum,
Stockbridge, MA
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Former Chairman, Fine Arts Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve, Washington, DC



​Courtenay McGowen
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Former Board Chair,
​Mingei International Museum,
​San Diego, CA




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​Janis B. Wetsman

Trustee Emerita,
Detroit Institute of Arts,
​Detroit, MI
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Katherine Duff Rines

- Trustee Emerita, Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI

- Governor, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI

- Trustee, Board of Overseers, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT​

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​​Georgina T. Russo

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Chair, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

- Former Executive Committee Member, The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA


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​Brenda Thompson

- Trustee Emeritus,
Barnes Foundation,
Philadelphia, PA


- Trustee,
​International Arts & Artists


Directors Emeriti



Pamela M. Bruder
Trustee Emeritus, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA
Former Trustee, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Board President, Olaf Wieghorst Museum Foundation, El Cajon, CA

Alan Cameros - (deceased)
Honorary Trustee, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY

Ellen Charles
President Emeritus, Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, DC
Former President, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden, Washington, DC

Edith H. Fisher
Trustee, Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA

Hannah L. Henderson
Trustee, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Trustee, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Karen Johnston 
Chair, The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL 
Past Vice Chair, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC 
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Maureen Pecht King 
Chair, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
 
Sheila Bourke McGinity
Sustaining Trustee, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Former President, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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Aaron M. Milrad
US Foundation Board of Trustees, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, ONT
Former Chairman, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, ONT

​Leonard M. Nelson
Former President, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Wendy Rebanks
Governor, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ONT
Art Centre, University of Toronto, ONT

Joel D. Sugg - (deceased)
Former Chair, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX

Indru Watumull
Former Trustee, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

Jean R. Wente
Former Chair, Oakland Museum Association, Oakland, CA
Former Trustee, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, DE
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Fay H. Williams
Honorary Life Trustee, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, IN
Trustee, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art


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