Statewide Board of Directors
Officers and Executive Committee 2026-2027
Richard Pulley
Chair
Mike Lott
Immediate Past Chair & Vice Chair
Eric Peterson
Secretary
Edward Finley
Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee
Richard Pulley
Regional Board President, Hampton Roads
Tiana Smith-Cluff
Regional Board President, Central Virginia
Elsa Ma
Regional Board President, Northern Virginia
Amber Taylor
President, Virginia Opera Guild
Michael Maszaros
Chair, Governance Committee
Raymond DeFrank
Chair, Foundation Board
Nicolas Schuck
Chair, Audit Committee
Martha Lee Shaw
Member at Large
Virginia Opera Board
Jeannie P. Baliles
Gwen Burroughs
Christopher Coffing
Josee Covington
Bess Decker
Raymond DeFrank
Edward Finley
Lenore Hart
Roy Hart
Andrea Holloway
Mary Kay Lawson
Kathleen LeMons
Ina D. Levy
Edward Lilly
Michael Lott
Elsa Ma
Michael Maszaros
Valerie Neff
Tom Nicholson III
Mike Ott
Eric Peterson
Richard Pulley
Susan Quate
Allan S. Reynolds Jr. Esq.
Betsy Reynolds
Dr. John Reynolds
Nicolas Schuck
Martha Lee Shaw
Amber Taylor
Hon. Lydia C. Taylor
Dante Walston
Deborah H. Wyld
Past Chairs
Edythe C. Harrison
Founding Chair
1974-1977
Stanley G. Barr, Jr., Esq.
1978-1979
Edythe C. Harrison
1979-1981
Walter P. Conrad, Jr.
1981-1983
Mary R. Albergotti
1983-1984
Edward S. Stein
1984-1985
Eleanor Bradshaw
1985-1986
Thomas H. Nicholson
1986-1988
Dorothy Doumar
1988-1989
Jane Patton Browning
1989-1990
Joyce H. Strelitz
1990-1992
Peter M. Huber, Esq.
1992-1994
Dixie Wolf
1994-1996
Peter M. Huber, Esq.
1996-1998
Alan D. Albert, Esq.
1998-2000
Robert M. Rubin, D.M.D
2000-2001
John Turbyfill
2001-2003
John Field
2003-2005
Allan S. Reynolds, Jr.
2005-2007
Mark T. Cox IV
2007-2009
Joan B. Miller
2009-2011
Alan D. Albert, Esq.
2011-2015
Allan S. Reynolds, Jr.
2015-2017
Dr. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld Wollan
2017-2019
Paul Winslow
2019-2021
Deborah Wyld
2021-2024
Mike Lott
2024-2026