Miller Center Foundation Board of Directors

The Miller Center Foundation was established in 1987 to support the work of the Center and function as an ambassador to the public on behalf of its initiatives and programs. The Foundation is governed by its Board of Directors.

Leigh B. Middleditch

Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr.

Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr., Chairman, is of counsel in the Charlottesville office of law firm McGuireWoods LLP and vice president of McGuireWoods Consulting LLC. Mr. Middleditch, a graduate of the University of Virginia and its School of Law, has served on the University of Virginia's board of visitors and as legal adviser and special counsel to the University. He is also active in the American Bar Association, serving previously as chair of the exempt organizations committee of the tax section, chair of the senior lawyers division, and as a member of its board of governors.

John T. Casteen, III

John T. Casteen, III

John T. Casteen, III, ex-officio, is the president of the University of Virginia. Before joining the University in 1990, he served as president of the University of Connecticut and as Virginia's secretary of education. He has been a director of the American Council on College Entrance Examination Board and the National Collegiate Entrance Examination Board, as well as a commissioner of the Education Commission of the States. He is also a former chair of the Association of Governing Boards Council of Presidents, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and the Association of American Universities. President Casteen holds his bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees in English from the University of Virginia.

W. Heywood Fralin

W. Heywood Fralin

W. Heywood Fralin, ex-officio, is the rector of the University of Virginia and chief executive officer of Medical Facilities of America Inc., which operates nursing homes in Virginia and North Carolina. Fralin, a 1962 graduate of the University, is past president of the board of trustees of the Virginia Student Aid Foundation and currently serves as a trustee of the University of Virginia Foundation.

Eugene V. Fife

Eugene V. Fife

Eugene V. Fife is a former partner at Goldman Sachs and a founding principal of Vawter Capital LLC, a private equity firm established in Charlottesville. He currently serves as the non-executive chairman of Eclipsys Corporation and as a board member of Caterpillar, Inc. Mr. Fife has also been a member of the University of Virginia Medical Center's operating board since 2002. He is the chairman of the Miller Center Governing Council.

Claire W. Gargalli

Claire W. Gargalli

Claire W. Gargalli is a retired corporate and international banking executive. She previously served as vice chairman and partner at Diversified Search Companies in Philadelphia, and as president, chief operating officer, and director of Equimark Corporation. Ms. Gargalli is a member of the boards of Baker Hughes, Inc., Praxair, Inc., and UNOVA, Inc., and she is a Trustee Emeritus of Middlebury College and Carnegie Mellon University.

David E. Gibson

David E. Gibson

David E. Gibson is a former executive vice president of Citicorp/Citibank. A 1962 alumnus of the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences and a 1965 alumnus of its School of Law, Mr. Gibson is an emeritus trustee of the Darden Foundation for the Darden Graduate School of Business and a founding sponsor and emeritus trustee of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He is a member of the board for Assyst, a trustee of the Montpelier Foundation, a member of the advisory board of venture investment firm Fairfax Partners, and a member of the board of proprietary mutual funds distributed by the Citigroup Private Bank.

Joseph R. Gladden, Jr.

Joseph R. Gladden, Jr.

Joseph R. Gladden, Jr., is a former executive with The Coca-Cola Company. As Executive Vice President & General Counsel at the time of his retirement from a 16 year career there, Gladden had responsibility for the worldwide legal function of the company. Before joining Coca-Cola in 1985, Gladden spent 17 years with the Law firm King & Spalding. An alumnus of the University of Virginia School of Law, Mr. Gladden has an LLB degree and is on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Ballet and the University of Virginia Health Services Foundation.

Frederick P. Hitz

Frederick P. Hitz

Frederick P. Hitz has held positions with the CIA and the Departments of State, Defense, and Energy, along with serving as a managing partner of the law firm of Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt from 1982 to 1990 Mr. Hitz was appointed the CIA's first statutory Inspector General by George H.W. Bush. Mr. Hitz currently is a Senior Fellow at the UVa School of Law and lectures there and at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and in the University's History Department. He is the author of The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage and Why Spy? Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty.

A. Linwood Holton

A. Linwood Holton, Jr.

A. Linwood Holton, Jr. was the Governor of Virginia from 1970 to 1974. He is now a member of the government relations team for the Richmond, Virginia-based law firm of McCandlish Holton PC. Governor Holton has served previously as president of the Center for Innovative Technology, vice president and general counsel of the American Council of Life Insurance, and as a member of Amtrak's board of directors. He is also a former chair of the Metropolitan Washington Airport and the Republican Governors Association.

Richard R. Kreitler

Richard R. Kreitler

Richard R. Kreitler is a retired business executive and founder of Red Stick Golf Club in Vero Beach, Florida. Mr. Kreitler is also a significant supporter of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home.

Edgar J. Roberts, Jr.

Edgar J. Roberts, Jr.

Edgar J. Roberts, Jr. is a retired international business executive whose professional life focused on capital market intermediaries, with particular emphasis on international credit and financial markets. He held senior positions in a commercial bank, Marine Midland; two investment banks, First Boston and Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb; two development banks, Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank; and one of the two major bond rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service. Mr. Roberts graduated from Bucknell University and Duke University's School of Law.

Alfred B. Strickler

Alfred B. Strickler, Jr.

Alfred B. Strickler, Jr. is a retired business executive who worked for Armstrong Industries in Pennsylvania for thirty-four years before founding a consulting firm. He is a past chair and current member of the University of Virginia's emergency medicine advisory board.

Elsie W. Thompson

Elsie W. Thompson

Elsie W. Thompson, a graduate of the University of Virginia's School of Law, is an attorney and partner in the Charlottesville law firm of Thompson & Thompson. She is an active community leader who has served as a former president of the Paramount Theatre Foundation and the Piedmont Council for the Arts. She is also the treasurer of the board of directors for the Virginia Chamber Music Foundation.

Anne R. Worrell

Anne R. Worrell

Anne R. Worrell is a former newspaper executive and noted community leader with a strong interest in historic preservation. She and her late husband, Gene, formerly owned Bristol Newspapers, Inc., Worrell Investment Company, and the Worrell Land and Cattle Company. The two also established the Genan Foundation in 1986, and Mrs. Worrell serves as its president. She is also the director of Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest Foundation and the honorary vice chairman of the Virginia Historical Society.