Leadership

Executive Committee

Twyla Martins

National President
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Gail Fisher

First Vice President
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Judy Martorellli

Second Vice President
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Mindy Rossi-Stabler

Recording Secretary
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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

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