CWPT Board of Directors
Meet Our Board
John L. Nau, III
Chairman of the Board
Graduate, University of Virginia; President and CEO, Silver Eagle Distributors, Inc.; Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; Chairman, Texas Historical Commission; Board of Directors, Greater Houston Partnership; National Trustee, Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Henry E. Simpson
Vice Chairman of the Board
Graduate, Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia Law School; attorney, Adams and Reese/Lange Simpson, LLP.
Mary Munsell Abroe
A graduate of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana (B.A.) and Loyola University Chicago (Ph.D. in American history), Dr. Abroe teaches modern European and American history at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois. Among the boards/commissions to which she belongs are the board of directors of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, and the Advisory Board of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. She also is a past president of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago.
Harrison "Mac" Bains Jr.
Treasurer
MBA Graduate, University of California, Berkeley and BA graduate of the University of Redlands. He is the retired Vice President, Tax and Treasury of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Was the Senior Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank and before that, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of RJR Nabisco.
Edwin C. Bearss
Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service; Director's Special Assistant for Military Sites and former Chief Historian at the National Park Service; winner of history and preservation awards including the T. Harry Williams Award, the Bruce Catton Award, the Alvin Calman Award, the Bell I. Wiley Award, the Harry S. Truman Award for Meritorious Service in the field of Civil War History, and the CWPT Edwin C. Bearss Lifetime Achievement Award.
Paul W. Bryant, Jr.
President of Greene Group, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a privately held holding company; trustee, The University of Alabama System; director, Alabama Heritage Foundation; trustee, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia.
Walter W. Buckley, Jr.
Founder, Partner and President - Buckley Muething Capital Management Co.; former executive with Bethlehem Steel; board member, St. Luke's Hospital, Moravian Academy; graduate, Cornell University B.A. 1960, Cornell, M.B.A., 1962.
Childs Frick Burden
Director of Security Storage Company of Washington, director of Middleburg Financial Corporation, and partner with the Secor Group. Committed to volunteer service for historic preservation, he is currently the director of the following associations: Mont Zion Church Preservation Association, John Singleton Mosby Heritage Area Association, Loudoun Historical Society, Oatlands; A National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh. Mr. Burden received his BA from the University of Virginia and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He resides in Middleburg, Virginia.
Carlton Crenshaw
Former Executive Vice President, Finance and CFO at Anteon International Corporation. During his service in the United States Marine Corps, he was the recipient of several medals including the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. He is a member of the Marine Corps Association Board of Advisors and Chairman of the Audit Committee, a founder of the Marine Corps Heritage Museum, and a graduate of the New York University Graduate School of Business.
Beverly M. DuBose, III
Graduate of Washington and Lee University; President, The DuBose Companies – a real estate development and construction firm; Board of the Gettysburg National Museum Foundation, Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation; Past Chair of the Board of the Atlanta Historical Society; Board of Trustees, Washington and Lee University. Assembled with his father what is regarded as the largest private collection of Civil War memorabilia now the basis for the exhibit "Turning Point" at the Atlanta History Center.
James S. Gilliland
Graduate of Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Law School; service, United States Navy; law practice at Gankler, Brown law firm, Memphis, and then General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Present non-profit boards: Environmental Law Institute, Institute of Human Origins. Past non-profit board chairmanships: LeMoyne-Owen College; Memphis Arts Council; Liberty Bowl Association.
Michael Grainger
Graduate, University of Montevallo in Alabama. Michael Grainger retired in 2004 from the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest technology distributor. Prior to that, he was the company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Earlier in his career, he held executive financial positions with two companies and served as a Certified Public Accountant with Price Waterhouse.
John D. Haynes
Graduate, University of Mississippi Law School; President, Farmers and Merchants Bank; Attorney, Haynes & Haynes, Attorneys at Law; Publisher, The Baldwyn News; Former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives; Executive Director, Brices Crossroads National Battlefield Commission, Inc. and Brices Crossroads Visitors Center.
O. James Lighthizer
President, Civil War Preservation Trust; former partner, Miles and Stockbridge; former Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, Anne Arundel County Executive, and member of the Maryland Legislature.
Jeffrey P. McClanathan
Jeff McClanathan is a partner with Gregory, Sharer and Stuart, CPAs, St. Petersburg, Florida. He serves on the following: Strategic Planning Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Chairman and Board of Trustees President for the HTR Foundation; Board of Trustees, Canterbury School of Florida; Board of Trustees, All Children's Hospital.
Anne Miller
Graduate, Pennsylvania State University and Salisbury State University; Member of Salisbury University Foundation and Peninsula Regional Medical Center Foundation; Trustee of the Hallowell Foundation.
Libby O'Connell
Senior Vice President Corporate Outreach, Chief Historian, The History Channel; Graduate of Tufts University (BA) and the University of Virginia (MA, Ph.D. in American History); developed and oversees Save Our History, The History Channel's campaign for historic preservation and history education. Member, Mt. Vernon Scholars Committee; Board of Advisors, National Council for History Education.
Cricket Bauer Pohanka
Independent exhibit curator, researcher, writer, producer. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. BS degree, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. MS degree, University of Maryland, College Park. Former curator/registrar at the University of Maryland Costume Collection, the DAR Museum, and Gadsby's Tavern Museum in Alexandria, VA. Officer, Chantilly Battlefield Association. Member, 5th NY Duryee's Zouaves.
Theodore Sedgwick
President, Sedgwick Publishing Co.; President, Red Hills Lumber Co.; board member, Wetlands America Trust (Ducks Unlimited's conservation affiliate), Winous Point Marsh Conservancy, Folger Shakespeare Library. Graduate of Harvard College.
J. Dennis Sexton
Former president and CEO, All Children's Health System, St. Petersburg, Florida; Past President, National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions; Chairman, Child Health Corporation of America; Trustee, HTR Foundation.
Jeff Shaara
Graduate, Florida State University. Bestselling author of several books. His books Gods and Generals and To the Last Man were awarded the American Library Association's prestigious "William Young Boyd Award" for excellence in military fiction.
Guy M. Struve
A .B. Yale College 1963 (summa cum laude); LL.B. Harvard University 1966 (magna cum laude); Attorney Specializing in Litigation, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, New York.
William W. Vodra
Secretary
Graduate of the College of Wooster (Ohio) and Columbia University School of Law; law practice as Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in D.C., Assistant Chief Counsel for the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Associate Chief Counsel for Drugs to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Now Senior Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP.
Douglas W. Walker
Graduate, Vanderbilt University; co-founder and former CEO, Walker Richer & Quinn (WRQ); chairman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; vice chair, The Wilderness Society; former chairman, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI).
L. Dudley Walker
Graduate, North Carolina State University, Textile Engineering; former chairman and CEO, Bassett-Walker, Inc.; former chairman, VF Knitwear; former director, VF Corporation and Crestar Financial Corporation; trustee, Virginia Historical Society; trustee, Carlisle School.
W. Denman Zirkle
Graduate, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve. Most recently chief executive officer of Carret and Company, a New York-based advisory firm sold in 2004. Previously affiliated with Lynch & Mayer, Inc. as senior vice president of marketing and Franklin Templeton Investments as executive vice president. Trustee of Randolph-Macon Woman's College.
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