Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Richard H. Pierpont, Chair
R. Chris Doerr
– Florida Blue, Immediate Past Chair
Martin F. Connor, III, Chair-Elect
Kay Nichols
– Fidelity National Information Services, Treasurer
Halcyon E. Skinner
McGuireWoods LLP, Secretary

J. F. Bryan, IV, Vice Chair, Board Leadership
Matthew McAfee
Driver, McAfee, Griggs & Peck, Vice Chair, Development
Joel Settembrini
– Saalfield Shad, Vice Chair, Artistic Affairs
H. W. “Buzz” Goodall, Vice Chair, Marketing
Frederick W. Schantz, Vice Chair, Endowment


At Large:
Anthony Kurlas – Merrill Lynch
Joseph A. Nicosia

Ex Officio:
Alberta Hipps,
President, Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony Association 
Gurmeet Keaveny,
President, BRASS (Beaches Residents Actively Supporting the Symphony)
Thomas Pippin,
President, ARIAS (Amelia Residents In Action for the Symphony)


Board of Directors

Corporate Council:
Martha E. Barrett – Bank of America
Leonard B. Curry – ICX Group

Karl Halbach – ADP
Brad King -- Wells Fargo

David Mann SunTrust
Terrence L. McGrane
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Christian Oldenburg – Regency Centers
Toni Porterfield
Main Street America Group

George Scanlon – Fidelity National Financial
R. Travis Storey
KPMG
David Strickland
EverBank
Charles L. Zink – PGA Tour

Community Council:
Lynn Alligood
Elizabeth Augustus
John S. Billings
Candice Bobeck

Michael Boylan
Carl N. Cannon
Elizabeth Lovett Colledge, Ph.D.
Joyce Q. Couch
Barbara Darby, Ed.D.
Margaret Gomez
Anne Hopkins, Ph.D.
Ross T. Krueger, M.D.
Anne Lufrano, Ph.D.
Claudia Minch,
    Musician Representative
Mary Ellen Smith
Christopher H. Smith
Mark Spatola, M.D.
Lee Thomas
Ronald Townsend
Peter B. Wright,
    Musician Representative
Gwendolyn Yates
Wayne Young

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Honorary Board Members

Ruth Conley
Mrs. Robert D. Davis
David W. Foerster
John L. Georgas
Preston H. Haskell
Robert E. Jacoby
Frances Bartlett Kinne, Ph.D., Life Member
Arthur W. Milam
Mary Carr Patton
Jay Stein
Jim Van Vleck
James H. Winston


Ex Officio Board Members

Honorable William Bishop, President, Jacksonville City Council 
Honorable Alvin Brown, Mayor, City of Jacksonville
Honorable Betty Burney, Chair, Duval County Public Schools

Tim Cost, President, Jacksonville University
John Delaney, President, University of North Florida
Laura Dwyer, Executive Director, First Coast Community Music School
Honorable Audrey Gibson, Chair, Duval County Legislative Delegation
Dr. Willis Holcombe, Interim President, Florida State College at Jacksonville
Nathaniel Glover, President, Edward Waters College
Walter M. Lee, III, President, Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce
Nikolai P. Vitti, Superintendent, Duval County Public Schools
Robert Arleigh White,
Executive Director, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

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Past Presidents

1950-52            Olin E. Watts, Founding President
1952-55            Wellington W. Cummer
1955-57            Hugh R. Dowling
1957-58            Giles J. Patterson
1958-60            Carl S. Swisher
1960-61            Gert H. W. Schmidt
1961-62            Roger R. Bowen
1962-64            Roger L. Main
1964-65            Charles L. Hoffman
1965-67            Hugh Abernethy
1967-68            Archie J. Freels
1968-69            Harold K. Smith
1969-70            Jacob F. Bryan, III
1970-72            Ira M. Koger
1972-73            J. Shepard Bryan, Jr.
1973-74            Randall C. Berg
1974-76            W. E. Grissett, Jr.
1976-78            B. Cecil West
1978-80            James C. Blanton
1980-81            David C. Hastings
1981-82            Alford C. Sinclair
1982-83            Constance S. Green
1983-84            Arthur W. Milam
1984-86            John H. McCallum
1986-87            Preston H. Haskell
1987-88            Sylvia F. “Tibby” Sinclair
1988-89            J. F. Bryan, IV
1989-90            David W. Foerster
1990-91            E. William Nash, Jr.
1991-92            James H. Winston
1992-93            Robert T. Shircliff
1993-94            Robert O. Purcifull
1994-95            Carl N. Cannon
1995-96            Phillip E. Wright
1996-97            Jay Stein
1997-98            Mary Ellen Smith
1998-00            R. Travis Storey
2000-02            John S. Peyton
2002-04            A.R. “Pete” Carpenter
2004-06            Steven T. Halverson
2006-07            Gerald J. Pollack
2007-09            Jim Van Vleck
2009-11            R. Chris Doerr

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as of September, 2012