Statewide Board of Directors
Officers and Executive Committee 2023-2024
Mike Lott
Chair
Deborah Wyld
Immediate Past Chair; Chair, Marketing Strategy
Gwen Burroughs
Secretary
Lauren Kadish
Chair, Civic Engagement
Roy Hart
Treasurer; Chair, Finance Committee; President, NOVA Board of Governors
Christopher Coffing
Chair, Strategic Planning
Raymond DeFrank
Chair, Foundation Board
Donna Allen
Co-chair, DEI
Tom Nicholson
Member at Large
Amber Reeves
Guild President
Martha Lee Shaw
Chair, Governance
Andrea Holloway
President, HR Board of Governors
Cynthia Holmes
President, CVA Board of Governors
Susan Quate
Member at Large
Courtney Hyers
Member at Large
Mary Virginia Overholser
Co-chair, DEI
Peggy Kriha Miller
General Director & CEO
Nicolas Schuck
Chair, Audit
Virginia Opera Board
Donna Allen
Jeannie Baliles
Nancy Branch
Gwen Burroughs
Christopher Coffing
Josee Covington
Bess Decker
Raymond DeFrank
Helle Dresdner
Lenore Hart
Roy Hart
Kathy Heaton
Andrea Holloway
Cynthia Holmes
Peter Huber
Courtney Hyers
Lauren Kadish
Kathleen LeMons
Ina Levy
Edward Lilly
Michael Lott
Michael Maszaros
Valerie Neff
Tom Nicholson III
Mary Virginia Overholser
Patrick Patrong
Gerald Pepe, PhD
Mary Postma
Richard Pulley
Patti Pusey
Susan Quate
Allan S. Reynolds Jr. Esq.
Dr. John Reynolds
Warren Richard
Nicolas Schuck
Martha Lee Shaw
Lydia Taylor
Betsy Wollan
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