Leadership
Executive Committee
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
Advisory Committee
Ruth Albright, Co-Chair
Doni Lystra, Co-chair
Charles Altman
Margaret Johnson
Brother Gary Morris
Denna Shiben
Board of Trustees
Mary Ann Osborne, Chair
Doni Lysta, Treasurer
Anne White, Secretary
Ruth Albright
Barbara Branscum
Nancy Brockman
Ron Ivey
Margaret Johnson
Twyla Martins
Judy Martorelli
Judy Park
Ramsay
Bylaws Committee
Gail Fisher – Chair
Sherry Henderson
Vincent Henderson
Laura Ivey
Carol Pitkin
Liaisons for Members at Large
Aziza El-Feil, Membership Chair
Martorelli Scholarship for Classical Voice
Judy Martorelli
Naomi Rabb Winston Scholarship in Two-Dimensional Art
Norman A. Brown, Co-chair
Twyla Martins, Co-chair
Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship in Classical Voice
Judy Martorelli, Chair
NSAL Literature Scholarship
Brennen Edwards, Chair
Parliamentarian
Vincent Henderson
Instrumental Music Category Committee
Paul Wigley, Chair
Insignia
Sherry Henderson
Historian
Sarah Moore
Chaplain
Brother Gary Morris
Photographer
Adelia Parker-Castro
Strategic Planning
Carol Pitkin, Chair
Judy Asselta
Ron Ivey
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
2022-24 Mary Ann Osborne