Leadership
Executive Committee
Mary Ann Osborne
National President
maosborne1554@gmail.com
Judi Asselta
First Vice President
judiasselta@gmail.com
Sarah Wigley
Second Vice President
sarah.wigley@gmail.com
Edgar Russell III
Recording Secretary
edgar_f_russell_iii@hotmail.com
Ron Ivey
Treasurer ronaldjivey@gmail.com
Laura Ivey
Assistant Treasurer livey18750@gmail.com
Honorary Members
Mrs. Michelle Obama
Mrs. Laura Bush
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Advisory Board
Bob Avian
Choreographer, theater producer and director
Vernel Martin Bagneris
Playwright, actor, director, singer, and dancer
Daniel Biaggi
Musician, Director of the Palm Beach Opera
Megan Hilty
Actress and singer
Judy Kaye
Actress and singer
Susan Kemenyffy
Artist
Daniel Lewis
Choreographer
Dr. Matthew Loudermilk
Pianist, Director, International Music Academy
Karen Mason
Actress and Singer
Trey McIntyre
Choreographer
Robert Pullen
Director of Special Programming
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Eric Shiner
Director, The Andy Warhol Museum
Geoffrey Soffer
Casting Agent, Soffer/Namoff Entertainment
Michael Urie
Actor
Christopher Wheeldon
Choreographer
Carol Wincenc
Musician
Mel Yoakum
Visual Art and Design Consultant
Standing Committee Chairs and Liaisons
Who Serve on the National Board
By-Laws
Catriona Tuder Elder
Historian
Sarah Moore
Strategic Planning
Carol Pitkin, Chair
Liaisons for Award Winners and Career Opportunities
Christine Knoblaugh O’Neal
Parliamentarian
Judy Martorelli
Appointed Officers, Liaisons & Standing Committee Members
Who Do Not Serve On The National Board
Annual Session Coordinator
TBA
Liaisons for Contestants
TBA
The Annual Report Editor
TBA
Nominating Committee
Anne White Norman A. Brown Sherry Henderson
Career Opportunities Liaison
Christine Knoblaugh O’Neal
Membership
Aziza El-Feil, Chair
Strategic Planning Committee
Carol Pitkin, Chair
NSAL Chapter Presidents
Newsletter Editors Twyla Martins Ruth Albright
Chaplain
Charles Altman
Liaison for Members at Large
Aziza El-Feil, Membership Chair
Naomi Rabb Winston Scholarships in Two Dimensional Art
Norman A. Brown, Co-Chair
Twyla Martins, Co-Chair
Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarships in Classical Voice
Judy Martorelli
Winston Scholarships Steering Committee
Judi Martorelli
Twyla Martins
Norman Brown
Doni Lystra
Dorothy Lincoln-Smith Classical Voice Awards
Dorothy Lincoln-Smith, Chair
Committee:
Tom Jones
High School Program
TBA
Photographer
Adelia Parker-Castro
Insignia
Sherry Henderson
Board of Trustees
Anne White Twyla Martins Sherry Henderson
Past Presidents
1944-46 Mollie Davis Nicholson
1946-48 Francesca Falk Miller
1948-50 Ethel Lyddon Kuter
1950-52 Helen Weinhardt Bush
1952-54 Lucy Jane Latham
1954-56 Faith Yingling Knoop
1956-58 Alta Turk Everett
1958-60 Mary Turk
1960-62 Pearl Olive Ponsford
1962-64 Dorothy Miller Strong
1964-66 Rebecca L. Tatlock
1966-68 Elizabeth Wilson
1968-70 Mildred Minvielle
1970-72 Patricia Lambert Harris
1972-74 Alice White Reeves
1974-76 Laura Evangelen Murphy
1976-78 Mary Jane Cook
1978-80 Ruthe Brouk
1980-82 Ruth Coll Herweck Pacetti
1982-84 Nancy Anne Strecker
1984-86 Carey Adams Ellis
1986-88 Peggy McNamara Brown
1988-90 Victor J. Niiranen, DDS
1990-92 Mary Jane Cultra
1992-94 Audrey King Peery
1994-96 Minerva Wilson Andrews
1996-98 O.D. Masters Jr
1998-2000 Reva P. Shiner
2000-02 M. Jeanne Tassé, PhD
2002-04 Nancy E. Brockman
2004-06 Barbara Branscum
2006-08 Ruth Albright
2008-10 Ramsay
2010-12 Doni Lystra
2012-14 Catriona Tudor Erler
2014-16 Dorothy Lincoln-Smith
2016-18 Judy Park
2018-20 Margaret Johnson
2020-22 Anne White