Board of Trustees
Honorary Chairs
Mrs. Melania Trump
Mrs. Michelle Obama
Mrs. Laura Bush
Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Mrs. Jimmy Carter
The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees
Officers
David M. Rubenstein, Chairman
Anthony Welters, Vice Chair
Deborah F. Rutter, President
Jacqueline Badger Mars, Secretary
Tracy Henke, Assistant Secretary
Michael F. Neidorff, Treasurer
Members Appointed by the President of the United States
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Adrienne Arsht
Brian D. Ballard
Pamela Bondi
Mary Helen Bowers
Hannah F. Buchan
Robert Castellani
Elaine Chao
Pamella Roland DeVos
Fred Eychaner
Jennifer Fischer
Lynnette Friess
Lee Greenwood
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Kate Adamson Haselwood
Michael Huckabee
Valerie Jarrett
Victoria Reggie Kennedy
Michele Kessler
Karen Tucker LeFrak
Carl H. Lindner III
Douglas Manchester
Edward T. McMullen, Jr.
Charles B. Ortner
Catherine B. Reynolds
Kelly Roberts
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Daryl Roth
David M. Rubenstein
Denise Saul
Susan S. Sher
Marc I. Stern
Jon Voight
Kelcy Warren
Heather Washburne
Phyllis Washington
Steven C. Witkoff
Andrea Wynn
Paolo Zampolli
Ex Officio Members Designated by Act of Congress
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Norris Cochran, Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services
Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State
Justin Shubow, Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts
Muriel Bowser, Mayor, District of Columbia
Lewis Ferebee, Chancellor, DC Public Schools
Margaret Everson, Acting Director, National Park Service
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Phil Rosenfelt, Acting Secretary of Education
Lonnie Bunch, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Representative Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican Leader of the House of Representatives
Representative Peter A. DeFazio
Representative Sam Graves
Representative Joyce Beatty
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Representative Jason Smith
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Senate Majority Leader
Senator Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican Leader
Senator John Barrasso
Senator Thomas R. Carper
Senator Mark Warner
Senator Roy Blunt
Senator John Cornyn
Founding Chairman
Roger L. Stevens†
Chairmen Emeriti
James A. Johnson†
Stephen A. Schwarzman
James D. Wolfensohn†
President Emeritus
Michael M. Kaiser
Senior Counsel
Robert Barnett
Special Advisor to the Chairman
Cappy McGarr
Senior Counselor to the Chairman
Herbert V. Kohler, Jr.
Special Advisor to the President
Rose Kennedy Schlossberg
Ongoing Service
David C. Bohnett
W. James McNerney
Reginald Van Lee
Honorary Trustees
Buffy Cafritz
Kenneth M. Duberstein
Alma Gildenhorn
Emeritus Trustees
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Philip F. Anschutz
Anita Arnold
Colleen Bell
The Hon. Stuart A. Bernstein
Wilma E. Bernstein
Lois Betts
Roland Betts
Nancy Goodman Brinker
Elliot B. Broidy
Ronald W. Burkle
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Governor Jon S. Corzine
Mrs. Edward Finch Cox
William M. Daley
Gordon J. Davis
Bo Derek
The Hon. Betsy DeVos
Senator Bob Dole
Ronald I. Dozoretz
Edward Easton
Judith Ann Eisenberg
Stevie Eller
Emilio Estefan, Jr.
George Farias
Giselle Fernandez
Sakurako Fisher
Thomas C. Foley
Craig L. Fuller
Norma Lee Funger
Mary Galvin
David Girard-diCarlo
John Goldman
Donald J. Hall, Jr.
Vinod Gupta
James A. Haslam II
Helen Lee Henderson
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Mrs. William Lee Hanley, Jr.
Janet Hill
Joan E. Hotchkis
Frank Islam
Phyllis Middleton Jackson
Anne Johnson
The Hon. Brenda LaGrange Johnson
William “Bill” Johnson
Ann Jordan
Sheldon B. Kamins
Caroline Kennedy
Nancy G. Kinder
C. Michael Kojaian
Kathi Koll
Michael Lombardo
Andrés W. López
Bryan Lourd
Amalia Perea Mahoney
Marlene A. Malek
Barbara Goodman Manilow
Donna G. Marriott
Alyssa Mastromonaco
David Mathews
Dorothy Swann McAuliffe
Donna C. McLarty
William F. McSweeny
The Hon. Norman Y. Mineta
Mary V. Mochary
Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Ron Nessen
Jack L. Oliver, III
Mary M. Ourisman
Robert Frank Pence
Ronald O. Perelman
Alma Powell
Rebecca Pohlad
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William Charles Powers
Penny Pritzker
Albert H. Quie
Gerald M. Rafshoon
Sumner M. Redstone
Gabrielle B. Reynolds
Shonda L. Rhimes
Mrs. A.A. Ribicoff
Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Susan Rice
Laura Ricketts
Duane R. Roberts
Miles L. Rubin
Margaret Russell
Shirley W. Ryan
Leonard Sands
Joy A. Silverman
Joshua I. Smith
Dean A. Spanos
Dennis Stanfill
Alexandra C. Stanton
Jay Stein
Catherine Stevens
Bryan Traubert
Alexander F. Treadwell
Ranvir Trehan
The Hon. Donna F. Tuttle
Walter Ulloa
Romesh Wadhwani
The Hon. Lowell Weicker, Jr.
Ambassador Beatrice W. Welters
Thomas E. Wheeler
Ann Marie Wilkins
Elaine Wynn
† (Deceased)