AAM 2008 Board Members Approved

AAM's membership approved eight new members in late February to serve on its board of directors. Listed below, they will begin their terms on May 16 at the end of the AAM Annual Meeting in Chicago. The vice chair will serve a one-year term, six members-at-large will serve three-year terms and one will serve a two-year term.

AAM members had until Feb. 15 to review the slate—which was listed in Aviso and Museum News and on the AAM website—or submit a petition for additional candidates. To be nominated for service on the AAM board indicates that an individual's colleagues hold him or her in high regard. AAM thanks its new board members for their service to the association and the museum community.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS

» Vice Chair (2007–2008)

Carl Nold, president and CEO, Historic New England, Boston

» Board Member-at-Large (2007–2010)

Ted Beattie, president and CEO, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
Kinshasha Holman Conwill, deputy director, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
Ron Forman, president and CEO, Audubon Nature Institute, New Orleans
Allyn Lord, director, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale, Ark.
Juanita Moore, president and CEO, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit
Dennis Wint, president and CEO, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia

» Board Member-at-Large (2006–2009)

John Wetenhall, executive director, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla. (completing unexpired term of Carl Nold)

CONTINUING BOARD MEMBERS

» Board Chair (2006–2008)

Irene Y. Hirano, president and CEO, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles

» Immediate Past Board Chair (2006–2008)

Jeff Rudolph, president and CEO, California Science Center, Los Angeles

» Board Member-at-Large (2005–2008)

Spencer R. Crew, president, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati
William U. Eiland, director, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens
Gail M. Harrity, chief operating officer, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Lyndel King, director, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
Patrick Kociolek, executive director, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
Douglas Myers, executive director, Zoological Society of San Diego

» Board Member-at-Large (2006–2009)

Georgia Contiguglia, president and CEO, Colorado Historical Society, Denver
Steven High, director, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga.
Cristián Samper, acting secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Kathy Dwyer Southern, president and CEO, National Children's Museum, Washington, D.C.
Howard J. Taylor, director, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Tex.