Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees of the Newberry provides governance to the institution, with an emphasis on fulfilling the Newberry’s mission through strategic and major policy decisions. The Board also has statutory fiduciary responsibilities under State of Illinois and United States law and regulation.

The Board, which consists of Trustees and Life Trustees, holds four regular meetings per year. Much of its business is conducted through standing committees and special task forces or working groups.

Members of the Board of Trustees, The Newberry

Victoria J. Herget
Chair
Institutional Investment Advisor 

David C. Hilliard
Vice Chair
Attorney, Partner
Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard, & Geraldson

David E. McNeel
Vice Chair
Managing Director
Bessemer Trust Company, N.A.

Norman Bobins
Treasurer
Non-Executive Chairman
The Private Bank

Paul J. Miller
Secretary
Partner
SNR Denton

Roger S. Baskes
Immediate Past Chair
Managing Partner
The Baskes Office 

Joan Brodsky
Civic Leader

T. Kimball Brooker
President
Barbara Oil Company

Anthony Dean
Retired President & Chief Operating Officer
The John Nuveen Company

David P. Earle III
Attorney

Sister Ann Ida Gannon
Professor Emeritus, Philosophy Department
Mundelein College of Loyola University

Louise R. Glasser
Civic Leader

Hanna Gray
President Emerita and Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of History
University of Chicago

Richard Gray
Partner
Richard Gray Gallery

Sue Gray
Civic Leader

Charles C. Haffner III
Past Chairman
Retired Vice Chairman
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company

Neil Harris
Professor, Department of History
University of Chicago

Sandra Hindman
Professor Emerita, Art History
Northwestern University

Robert H. Jackson
Partner
Kohrman Jackson & Krantz PLL

D. Carroll Joynes
Executive Director, Cultural Policy Center, Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago

Stanley N. Katz
President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies
Professor, Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University

Jonathan Kemper
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Commerce Bank

C. Frederick Kittle, M.D.
Retired Thoracic Surgeon

Lawrence Lipking
Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities
Northwestern University

Barry L. MacLean
President
MacLean-Fogg Company

Frederick J. Manning
President
Celtic Group, Inc.

Marcus McCorison
President Emeritus
American Antiquarian Society

Grant McCullagh
Chairman and CEO
Global Integrated Business Solutions, Inc.

Andrew W. McGhee
Past Chairman
Business Consultant (Self Employed)

Andrew McNally IV
Retired, CEO
Rand McNally

Cynthia E. Mitchell
Civic Leader

Kenneth Nebenzahl
President
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Inc.

John H. Noonan
Retired Money Manager

Janis W. Notz
Civic Leader

Zoé Petersen
Civic Leader

Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr.
International Security Advisor, Retired

Paul T. Ruxin
Of Counsel
Jones Day

Alyce Sigler
Civic Leader

Richard D. Siragusa
Retired Corporate Executive

Harold B. Smith
Past Chairman
Retired, Chairman of the Executive Committee
Illinois Tool Works, Inc. 

Jules Stiffel
Retired Manufacturing Executive

Carol Warshawsky
Past Chairman
J. C. Whitney & Co.

Robert Wedgeworth, Jr.
Retired Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Barbara Wriston
Retired, Executive Director of Museum Education
Art Institute of Chicago