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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)