AAM is governed by the Board of Directors elected by the members of the Association.
Chair of the Board
Carl R. Nold
President and CEO
Historic New England
Boston, MA
Vice Chair of the Board Kathy Dwyer Southern
President and CEO
National Children's Museum
Washington, DC
Immediate Past Chair
Irene Y. Hirano
President and CEO
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Board Members-at-Large
Term of Office 2006 – 2009
Georgianna Contiguglia
Colorado State Historic Preservation Officer
Denver, CO
Steven High
Director
Telfair Museum of Art
Savannah, GA
Cristian Samper
Acting Secretary
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
Kathy Dwyer Southern
President & CEO
National Children's Museum
Washington, DC
Howard J. Taylor
Director
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
San Angelo, TX
John Wetenhall
Executive Director
John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Sarasota, FL
Term of Office 2007 - 2010
Ted Beattie
President & CEO
John G. Shedd Aquarium
Chicago, IL
Kinshasha Holman Conwill
Deputy Director
National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
Ron Forman
President & CEO
Audubon Nature Institute
New Orleans, LA
Allyn Lord
Director
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Springdale, AR
Juanita Moore
President & CEO
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Detroit, MI
Dennis M. Wint
President & CEO
The Franklin Institute
Philadelphia, PA
Term of Office 2008 – 2011
Bobbie Conner
Director
Tamástslikt Cultural Institute
Pendleton, OR
Douglas G. Myers
Executive Director
Zoological Society of San Diego
San Diego, CA
Jim Hanken
Curator and Professor of Biology
Harvard, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Cambridge, MA
Bonnie Pitman
Deputy Director
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
Lybdel King
Director
Frederick R Weisman Art Museum
Minneapolis, MN
Nancy Stueber
President and CEO
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Portland, OR
Ex Officio Member
Ford Bell
President
American Association of Museums
For more information about the AAM Board of Directors, contact:
Patrick Gossett
Special Assistant to the President & CEO
202/289-9101
