Governance

The Trustees enjoy the support of many volunteers who play a critical role in the governance of the organization.

Our governance structure consists of the following groups of volunteers:


Board of Directors

The members of the Board of Directors (Board) are legally responsible for setting policy, approving budgets, and overseeing the affairs of the organization, including hiring the President who is delegated the responsibility for carrying out the Board’s policies and hiring staff. Members of the Board chair and serve on Committees of the Board and meet four times annually.

Thomas D. French, Chair, Dover, MA
Cyrus Taraporevala, Vice-Chair, Sherborn, MA
Phyllis R. Yale, Vice-Chair, Lexington, MA
David D. Croll, Secretary, Chestnut Hill, MA
William G. Constable, Assistant Secretary, Lincoln, MA
Brian M. Kinney, Assistant Secretary, Newton, MA
Priscilla J. Bender, Bronxville, NY
Andrew P. Borggaard, Marblehead, MA
Peter B. Coffin, Chestnut Hill, MA
Elizabeth de Montrichard, Boston, MA
Philip J. Edmundson, Hingham, MA
Uzochi C. Erlingsson, Salt Lake City, UT
Edward G. Garmey, MD, Concord, MA
Timothy G. Healy, Concord, MA*
Roland E. Hoch, Concord, MA
Bradley C. Irwin, Naples, FL*
Elizabeth L. Johnson, Boston, MA
Julia G. Krapf, Westport, MA
John D. Laupheimer, Jr, Lincoln, MA
Martin Lempres, Boston, MA
Robert H. Mason, Lincoln, MA
Sukanya L. Soderland, Winchester, MA* New Director

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board counsels the Board of Directors on emerging issues of importance. It is particularly charged with developing long-range plans and strategic visions for The Trustees. The Advisory Board provides guidance on developing and implementing policies and procedures, and provides assistance in fundraising strategies and goal setting. Members of the Advisory Board serve on Committees of the Board and meet twice annually to discuss key issues and recommend long term strategy to the Board.

Michelle M. Abel
Marcela Aldaz-Matos
James M. Alden
Olivier J. Aries*
Margaret G. Bailey
Joanna Ballantine
Deborah J. Barker
David Bechhofer*
Jeffrey Bellows
Jennifer Bender
Rebecca Bermont
Richard M. Burnes, Jr
Richard M. Coffman
Katherine Collins
Karen S. Conway
Lisette S. Cooper, Phd
Brendan Coughlin
Stephanie Danhakl*
Natalie R. DeNormandie
Kathy Fallon*
David A. Fleischner
Martha L. Gangemi
Jade T. Gedeon
Christopher J. Goolgasian*
Daniel A. Grady
Trevor C. Graham
Linda Hammett Ory
James H. Hammons, Jr
Christopher E. Hart
Alexandra C. Hastings, PhD
Gregory Herrema
Onyinyechi Ibeneche
James F. Kane*
Frederick N. Khedouri
Joshua A. Klevens
Nushin Kormi
Ann W. Lambertus
Peter K. Lambertus
Robert A. Larsen
Alexander Leventhal*
Peter Lorenz*
Molly Macleod
Adam J. Margolin
Erica A. Mason
Virginia McCourt*
Andrea Miano*
Todd Millay, Esq
Katherine M. Morris
Albert A. Nierenberg
Christopher Oddleifson
Jeryl Oristaglio
Eunice Panetta*
Glenn P. Parker
Bradford J. Paul*
Kirsten Poler
Michael T. Prior
Jonathan Rapaport
Carter S. Romansky
Robert A. Seaver
Kearney Shanahan*
Susan Stevens
Richard Taggart
Caroline Tall
Yanni Tsipis
Melissa A. Tully
Mark F. Vassallo
Bradford B. Wakeman
Catherine Walkey
Andrew S. West
Janney Wilson*
Lily Wound
Naomi Yang
Lily Zarrella*
Marc Zawel

* New Advisory Board Member

Trustees Council

The Trustees Council was created in 1995 to honor former members of the Board of Directors and Advisory Board and recognize their past governance service. It also provides an opportunity for The Trustees to continue to benefit from the advice of experienced individuals. They meet twice a year to hear updates on Trustees work, and many members serve on a Committee of the Board.

Amy L. Auerbach
Clement C. Benenson
Steven A. Bercu
Tatiana Bezamat
Laura D. Bibler
Sarah H. Broughel
Ronald Brown
Lalor Burdick
Rebecca G. Campbell
Robert A. Clark
William C. Clendaniel
Frances H. Colburn
Susanna Colloredo-Mansfeld
Mary C. Cooper
David L. Costello
Peter H. Creighton
Andrew O. Davis
Laura DeBonis*
John P. DeVillars
Walter C. Donovan
James V. Ellard, Jr
Jeffrey B. Fager
Ronald L. Fleming, FAICP
Allen W. Fletcher
David R. Foster
Ann C. Galt
Elizabeth W. Gordon
Marjorie D. Greville
Gale R. Guild
Douglas B. Harding
Carter H. Harrison
Nathan Hayward, III
Thomas J. Healey
John K. Herbert, III
Eloise W. Hodges
Paul S. Horovitz
James S. Hoyte
Stephen B. Jeffries
Elizabeth B. Johnson
Charles F. Kane, Jr
Jonathan M. Keyes
Edward H. Ladd
Theodore C. Landsmark
David I. Lewis
Alexandra C. Liftman *
Deborah Logan
Charles R. Longsworth
Caleb Loring, III
Jonathan B. Loring
Peter E. Madsen
Eli Manchester, Jr
Katherine J. McMillan
Wilhelm M. Merck
Pauline C. Metcalf*
Sara Molyneaux
Brian W. Monnich
Amey D. Moot
W. Hugh M. Morton, Esq
Virginia M. Murray
Scott A. Nathan
Thomas H. Nicholson
Nicholas W. Noon
Thomas L. O’Donnell
Ronald P. O’Hanley, III
Kathryn P. O’Neil, CPA PC
Carolyn M. Osteen
Russell J. Peotter
Richard F. Perkins
Samuel Plimpton, AIA
Beatrice A. Porter
Margaret L. Poutasse
Hillary H. Rayport
Gene E. Record, Jr, CPA PC
Henry S. Reeder, Jr
Lily Rice Hsia
G. N. Ryland
Stanley L. Schantz
David W. Scudder
Christopher A. Shepherd*
Norton Q. Sloan, Jr
F. S. Smithers, IV
Jonathan A. Soroff*
Caroline D. Standley
Augusta P. Stanislaw
Arthur K. Steinert*
Elliot M. Surkin
Hope E. Suttin*
Jane M. Talcott
John E. Thomas
Natalia K. Wainwright
William F. Weld
R. A. West
Susan S. Winthrop

* New Council Member

Life Trustees

Life Trusteeship is one of the highest honors conferred by The Trustees. It recognizes those who have made extraordinary gifts of property, financial assets, or service to The Trustees. Life Trustees vote each year at the Annual Meeting (either in person or by proxy) to elect the Board of Directors, Advisory Board, and new Corporate and Life Trustees.

Lee Albright
Elsie J. Apthorp
Amy L. Auerbach*
Wilhelmina V. Batchelder-Brown
Nancy B. Bates
Frances H. Colburn
John Fiske
Alan F. French
Dorothy C. Fullam
Ralph D. Gordon
Elizabeth W. Gordon
Gale R. Guild
Roslyn E. Harrington
Nathan Hayward, III
Elizabeth B. Johnson
Andrew W. Kendall
John W. Kimball
Edward H. Ladd*
Catherine C. Lastavica
Edward P. Lawrence
Robert P. Lawrence
Pamela F. Lohmann
W. Hugh M. Morton, Esq
Thomas H. Nicholson
Nicholas W. Noon
Thomas L. O’Donnell
Eunice Panetta *
May H. Pierce
Rebekah Richardson
David W. Scudder
Norton Q. Sloan, Jr
F. S. Smithers, IV
Caroline D. Standley
Elliot M. Surkin
Wesley T. Ward
Pamela B. Weatherbee
R. A. West
Frederic Winthrop, Jr
* New Life Trustee

Corporate Trustees

Corporate Trustees are the voting “shareholders” of The Trustees.  The name “Corporate Trustees” dates to the origins of the organization’s original name, The Trustees of Reservations, which was formed in 1891 by an act of the state legislature as a charitable corporation governed by voluntary trustees. The basic legal duty of the Corporate Trustees is to elect the Board of Directors, the Advisory Board, and new Corporate and Life Trustees at The Trustees’ Annual Meeting.

Thomas F. Aaron
Michelle M. Abel
Ginger Ahn
Marcela Aldaz-Matos
James M. Alden
Katharine P. Allison
Jeffrey F. Allsopp
Barbara H. Almy
Robert Alsop
Manuel F. Álvarez-González
Kathleen L. Ames
Charles C. Ames
Eleanor T. Andrews*
Olivier J. Aries
Amy L. Auerbach
Michele Austin
Susan Baer
Margaret G. Bailey
Joanna Ballantine
Deborah J. Barker
David A. Barrett
Antje M. Barreveld, MD
Christine F. Battat
Susan Baxter
George P. Beal
David Bechhofer*
Gina Beinecke
Conrad Beliveau
Mara Beliveau
Jeffrey Bellows
Nicole J. Bellows
Jennifer Bender
Priscilla J. Bender
Clement C. Benenson
Stephanie T. Benenson
Steven A. Bercu
Lorri Berenberg
Lila W. Berle
Rebecca Bermont
Todd Bernstein
Tatiana Bezamat
Neeti Bhalla Johnson*
Laura A. Bibler
Theodore C. Bililies
Mark H. Bissell
Isabelle T. Black
Paul M. Blanchfield
Martha Bohlin
Andrew P. Borggaard
B. Stephen Boyd*
Irene S. Briedis
Thomas R. Bright
Kathleen Brill
Michael Bronner
John F. Brooke
Lisa A. Brothers
Sarah H. Broughel
Matthew T. Brown*
Richard M. Brown
Ronald Brown
Robert A. Buhlman, Esq.
Lalor Burdick
John A. Burgess
Richard M. Burnes, Jr.
John R. Cabot
Anthony B. Cahill, Jr.
Rebecca G. Campbell
Richard J. Canty
Jennifer E. Carey
John G. Carey
Liza R. Carey
Eli D. Casdin
Frances R. Caudill
James Cavan
Jonathan Chatinover
Richard H. Churchill, Jr.
Robert A. Clark
William C. Clendaniel
Peter B. Coffin
Richard M. Coffman
Cecily C. Colburn
Frances Colburn
Barbara G. Cole
Emily Collins
Katherine Collins
John J. Collins
Franz Colloredo-Mansfeld
Susanna Colloredo-Mansfeld
Patrick Connelly
William G. Constable
Karen S. Conway
Mary C. Cooper
Lisette S. Cooper, PhD
David L. Costello
Brendan Coughlin
Christopher H. Covington
Bonnie G. Covington
Roger W. Crandall
Patty Crane
Albert M. Creighton, III
Peter H. Creighton
Christopher Y. Crockett
David D. Croll
Matthew Daniels
Andrew O. Davis
Jonathan G. Davis
Susan W. Davis
Elizabeth de Montrichard
Laura DeBonis
Eileen R. DeCastro
Edmund P. DeLaCour
Jane C. Demers
Natalie R. DeNormandie
John P. DeVillars
Peter Diana
James R. Dodge
Cynthia Doe
Walter C. Donovan
Peter B. Dow
David Doyle
Andrew C. Dreyfus
J. W. Dunlaevy
Denis C. Duquette
Philip J. Edmundson
Lawrence G. Eliot
Peter L. Eliot
James V. Ellard, Jr.
Betty M. Ellis
Uzochi C. Erlingsson
Charles D. Esdaile
Sarah E. Eustis
Michael Even
Jeffrey B. Fager
Melinda W. Fager
Kathy Fallon*
John D. Farina, Jr.
Benjamin M. Faucett
Loren B. Feingold
George F. Fiske, Jr.
John F. Fiske
David A. Fleischner
Ronald L. Fleming, FAICP
Allen W. Fletcher
Alice L. Flint
Janet G. Foley
Chris Ford
David R. Foster
Gerard D. Frank
Jascha Franklin-Hodge
Thomas D. French
Ann C. Galt
John Galt
Martha L. Gangemi
Edward G. Garmey, MD
Maria C. Garzon Vassallo
William D. Gause
Jade T. Gedeon
Bartlett R. Geer
Susan C. Glessner
Alexandra Glover
Trintje Gnazzo*
Richard Goldenberg
Christopher J. Goolgasian
Daniel A. Grady
Trevor C. Graham
Susan J. Gray
Nikki A. Greene
Marjorie D. Greville
Lawrence A. Griffin
Kelly J. Guarino
Gale R. Guild
Benjamin W. Guy, III
Linda Hammett Ory
James H. Hammons, Jr.
Craig C. Hannafin
Douglas B. Harding
Elisabeth Harper
Carter H. Harrison
Katrina B. Hart
Christopher E. Hart
Keith D. Hartt
Alexandra C. Hastings, PhD
Elizabeth E. Hatch
Randolph G. Hawthorne*
Thomas P. Hayes
Nathan Hayward, III
Thomas J. Healey
Timothy G. Healy
Christie P. Hedges
Jeremy D. Henderson
John K. Herbert, III
David Herman*
Gregory Herrema
Cynthia S. Hibbard
Roland E. Hoch
Arthur C. Hodges
Eloise W. Hodges
Howard B. Hodgson, Jr.
Jeff M. Hoffman
Gardiner R. Holland*
Howard Hoople
Paul S. Horovitz
Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.
James S. Hoyte
Lily R. Hsia
Cameron Hudson
Walter Hunnewell, Jr.
Alfred J. Hunt
Onyinye Ibeneche Avbovbo
Laura Iorio
Bradley C. Irwin
Karen James*
Kate James
Stephen B. Jeffries
Kristina G. Jelleme
Elizabeth L. Johnson
Elizabeth B. Johnson
Robert A. Jonas
Brad W. Jones
David B. Jones
Charles F. Kane, Jr.
James F. Kane*
Holly M. Ketron
Jonathan M. Keyes
Frederick N. Khedouri
Judith J. King
Brian M. Kinney
Duncan Kirby
Celia Kittredge
Joshua A. Klevens
Jeffrey R. Kontoff
Nushin Kormi
Julia G. Krapf
William P. Kupper, Jr.
Edward H. Ladd
Philip L. Laird
Antonia P. Lake
Ann W. Lambertus
Peter K. Lambertus
Theodore C. Landsmark
Gertrude Lanman
Jeremy Lapon
Robert A. Larsen
John D. Laupheimer, Jr.
Marie LeBlanc
Paul R. LeBlanc
Georgia Lee
Jeffrey M. Leiden, MD
Martin Lempres
Rayna N. Lesser Hannaway
David I. Lewis
Lisa S. Lewis
Alexandra C. Liftman
Deborah Logan
Gregory Lomanno
Charles R. Longsworth
Peter Lorenz*
Caleb Loring, III
Jonathan B. Loring
David Lucchino*
Justin Lynch
Molly Macleod
John MacNeish
Peter E. Madsen
Eli Manchester, Jr.
David Mann
Adam J. Margolin
William B. Marsh
William J. Martin
Erica A. Mason
Robert H. Mason
Daniel R. Mathieu*
Daniel K. Mayer
Anne S. Mazar
David C. McCabe
Virginia McCourt
Thomas A. McCrumm
H. B. McEver
James T. McGuinness
Kathleen T. McIntyre
Katherine J. McMillan
Deneen McQueen-Chippari
Wilhelm M. Merck
Tamsen Merrill
Barbara Metcalf
Pauline C. Metcalf*
Andrea Miano
Susan Mikula
Todd Millay, Esq*
Mark E. Minelli
Michael R. Minogue
Elizabeth C. Minot
John O. Mirick
Sara Molyneaux
Brian W. Monnich
Amey D. Moot
Keith N. Morgan, PhD
Katherine M. Morris
Dan J. Morrow
David J. Morrow*
Christopher Morss
W. Hugh M. Morton, Esq.
Deborah W. Moses
Peter Murley, Esp.*
Virginia M. Murray
Scott A. Nathan
Gregory A. Netland
James R. Newland
Elizabeth E. Nicholson
Thomas H. Nicholson
Albert A. Nierenberg
Patricia Nobre
Tara Nolan*
Nicholas W. Noon
Birch S. Norton
Michael R. Nowlan
Thomas L. O’Donnell
Ronald P. O’Hanley, III
Kathleen J. O’Hara
Kathryn P. O’Neil
Matthew H. O’Toole
Christopher Oddleifson
David G. Offensend
Janet M. Offensend
Stephen P. Oliver
Jeryl Oristaglio
Isis Ortiz
Carolyn M. Osteen
Elizabeth Owens
Jill Palese
Eunice J. Panetta
Melany Park
Faith Parker
Glenn P. Parker
Oliver Parker
Alan Pasnik
Prataap Patrose
Bradford J. Paul
Patrick J. Pedonti
Russell J. Peotter
Calixto Perez
Richard F. Perkins
Daniel Pierce, Jr.
Samuel Plimpton, AIA
Kirsten Poler
Vida E. Poole
Amy G. Poorvu
Dana G. Pope
Catherine Popper
Beatrice A. Porter
Susan K. Potter
Margaret L. Poutasse
Michael T. Prior
Mary W. Pruett
Paul T. Przybyla
Nathaniel Pulsifer
Jonathan Rapaport
Anna W. Rasmussen
Hillary H. Rayport
Gene E. Record, Jr.
Brooke G. Redmond
Marcy L. Reed
Henry S. Reeder, Jr.
J. Stanley Reeve
George A. Reilly
Margaret M. Reiser
Dominica M. Ribeiro
Betsy Ridge
Louise C. Riemer
Bruce Ringwall
Darrol G. Roberts
Susan Roberts
Anthony Rochte
Bradford D. Rodney
Carter S. Romansky
Theodore Roosevelt, IV
Johanna H. Ross
G. N. Ryland
Kenneth Sallale
Jane Saltonstall
Stanley L. Schantz
John R. Schreiber
Rene Schweickhardt
Letitia W. Scott
Robb Scott
David W. Scudder
Robert A. Seaver
Naomi O. Seligman
Roger T. Servison
Kate Shamon-Rushford
Kearney Shanahan
Christopher A. Shepherd
Harriet H. Shields
Heidi H. Siegrist
John L. Simons
Sandra Sloan
Norton Q. Sloan, Jr.
Diana Smith*
Phyllis Smith
F. S. Smithers, IV
Sukanya L. Soderland
Hilary Somers Deely
Jonathan A. Soroff
Ognjen Sosa
Lionel B. Spiro
John B. Stanbury
Caroline D. Standley
Augusta P. Stanislaw
Margaret E. Steiner
Arthur K. Steinert
Suzanne Steinert
Anne Stetson
Susan Stevens
Howard H. Stevenson
Catherine M. Stone
R. G. Stone
Mimi E. Storey
Edward Sullivan
Carol F. Surkin
Elliot M. Surkin
Hope E. Suttin
Mitchel Syp, Jr.*
Richard Taggart
Jane M. Talcott
Margaret M. Talcott
Caroline Tall
Valentine Talland
Suzie Tapson
Cyrus Taraporevala
John E. Thomas
Thomas S. Tilghman
Peter L. Torrebiarte
George E. Triantaris
Kelley Truchan
Yanni Tsipis
Denise L. Tucker
Carol E. Tully
Melissa A. Tully
Susan T. Turner
G. Scott Uzzell
Sophie V. Vandebroek
John Vasconcellos
Mark F. Vassallo
Sanjeev Verma
Karen von Loesecke
Ernst H. von Metzsch
Natalia K. Wainwright
Bradford B. Wakeman
Leslie Waldorf
David E. Walker
Catherine Walkey
Thomas P. Walsh
Janet G. Walsmith
Joe M. Walsmith, PhD
Elissa Warner
Kathy L. Washburn
Solomon B. Watson, IV
Melinda Webster Loof
Cynthia W. Welch
Keith K. Wentzel
Lynn S. Wentzel
Andrew S. West
Megan S. West
R. A. West
Janney Wilson*
Frederic Winthrop, III
Susan S. Winthrop
Martin A. Wohl
Christopher J. Wolf
Sarah M. Wolfgang
Michael J. Woodall
Julia Woodard
Nancy C. Woolford
Lily Wound
Claudia S. Wu
Phyllis R. Yale
Naomi Yang
S. M. Yonce, Jr.
David Yuknat*
Michael J. Zak
Lily Zarrella*
Marc Zawel

* New Corporate Trustee

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