Staff & Board

BS Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
MBA with a concentration in Finance, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Following graduation from West Point, Mr. Sullivan served as an Infantry Platoon Leader and Company Commander during his seven years of service as an Army officer. He left the military and worked in the private sector for more than 20 years. During that time, he worked for Price Waterhouse Coopers and Booz Allen Hamilton providing financial systems design and integration consulting services for the US government and Fortune 500 clients. In 2007, he was asked to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a Program Director. He was selected for the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service and served seven years as NASA’s Associate Chief Information Officer where he was responsible for planning, managing and executing NASA’s $2.4 billion dollar annual information technology budget. He was awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive in 2014. The award, awarded by the President of the United States, recognizes outstanding Senior Executives who have exhibited exceptional achievements during service to the US government.

Originally from Erie, PA, Ms. McWilliams graduated with a BA in Art History from Wittenberg University in 1988. She went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and worked for many years in a clinical capacity with adult survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in OH.

Currently Ms. McWilliams resides in Bath County, VA with her husband, Bruce (a Bath County Supervisor). Ms. McWilliams is a community volunteer and philanthropist and has served in several leadership positions on the boards of many regional nonprofits (see list). She currently serves on the boards of the Bath Community Hospital in Hot Springs, VA and Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH where she is the current Chairman of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee.

Board Service

• Garth Newel Music Center, Past President, Past Secretary
• Bath County Arts Association, Past Chairman
• Bath County Historical Society, Past Vice-President
• Safehome Womens’ Shelter, Past Treasurer, Past Secretary
• T.O.T.S. Preschool, Past Secretary
• Community Foundation for Rockbridge, Bath & Alleghany
• Alleghany Highlands Free Clinic
• Preservation Bath Advisory Board

Stephanie Hiner spent over 20 years in the corporate world. Starting in marketing, moving to finance and then landing in IT. The last position encompassed all three areas where she was the Manager of Web Tools and Software application development. Her team developed tools to automate and improve processes within the business. Stephanie served as Business Analyst for her team who developed key initiatives, which led to significant cost and time savings for the business.

A mid career change resulted in the decision to leave the corporate world and pursue a career in education. The decision was precipitated by volunteer activities pursued such as running a Christmas shop for displaced children and working on the Mayor’s task force to address childhood hunger.

Moving to Bath County Virginia after spending 3 years working with students who had autism, she assumed the position of Director of Guidance. While there she served as not only the primary school counselor at the high school, but also lead a team of outside consultants to help address the needs of students. She also served at the Governor’s School Curriculum liaison, Power School (software system) coordinator for all 3 schools, the NCAA and NAIA Athletic Advising Director and the School Testing Coordinator.

Her current volunteer actives have included Friends of Bath County Library and the Bath County Arts Association. In her spare time Stephanie is an avid quilter, likes to dabble in Gardening and looks forward to traveling both domestic and international!

Don Ragland grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, and spent the early years of his adult life in the teaching and coaching world. With a BS in Mathematics and a MEd in Supervision of Instruction from Lynchburg College, he devoted the first years of his career to teaching math and coaching high school basketball, first in Lynchburg and then in Hampton, VA. After almost a decade in the education business, Don decided to explore a second career path, building on his math expertise. Don studied accounting at Christopher Newport University and was employed by a CPA firm. After receiving his certification as a CPA, he taught accounting as an adjunct professor at CNU. After twenty-one years {including fourteen years as a shareholder} of practicing public accounting, Don acquired an interest and became CFO of a business in the private sector which was sold a year later. Don returned to work in a position which united both strains of his experience -accounting and education- as Director of Finance for the New Horizons Regional Education Centers. It was a labor of love until his retirement in 2018. Looking back on his life and career, Don’s passion for education, commitment to his community, and vision for the potential of people and organizations led to leadership roles on several boards including:

• Virginia Society of CPAs – Chair of several committees
• Oyster Point Development Corporation, Chair
• Food Bank of the Virginia Peninsula, Chair
• Peninsula Estate Planning Council, Chair
• Peninsula Marine Institute, Chair
• Rotary International, President of local club and District Treasurer
• Youth Challenge
• Soundscapes, Inc., Treasurer

Don and his wife, Louise, live in Newport News. They bought a house in Bath County in 2005 and have been enthusiastic supporters of Garth Newel Center for many years. Recently, Don arranged for a group of advanced Soundscapes students to spend three days in residence at Garth Newel, studying and performing with the musicians. He, Louise, and their three adult children make music a major part of their lives

John served as President and CEO of The Kendal Corporation from1992 through 2015. Kendal is a not-for-profit, Quaker-inspired system of retirement communities and other services for older adults. He previously served as Executive Director of Carol Woods Retirement Community, Chapel Hill, North Carolina for ten years. He began his career in Aging, and served for six years as an Administrator, with Wesley Homes in Atlanta, Georgia. John retired in mid-2016 after supporting Kendal’s leadership transition in a consulting role.

Over a forty-year career, John served on the Board of Directors of his field’s principal national association, LeadingAge, as Chair of its committee on continuing care retirement communities, as founding Co-Chair of its leadership development program, as President of its North Carolina affiliate, and as Vice Chair of the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission.. In 2005, he served as a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging. Based on career-long contributions to his field, John received LeadingAge’s highest recognition in 2006, its Award of Honor. In 2021, John was elected to the Continuing Care Hall of Fame.

John also has served on numerous other boards in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors—including civic, cultural, denominational, educational, and financial institutions. John received his MBA from Emory University (1976), where he was honored by the faculty with the George Mew Award as the Outstanding Graduate in Management, and his AB (History) from Duke University (1970).

John was elected to the Garth Newel’s board in December of 2015, filling a one-year unexpired term of a previous board member and a first three-year term. In December of 2016, he was elected Vice-Chair, and given the responsibility, by then Chair Nancy Coddington, for leading the strategic planning process. In December of 2017, he was elected Chair and served two two-year terms before being succeeded by Gene Sullivan. During his board-service to date, John has served on the Investment Committee and Executive Committee, as Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, and as Co-Chair of the comprehensive capital campaign. John will rotate off Garth Newel’s board at the end of 2025.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

• Born, raised and educated in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

EDUCATION

• Graduated from Oak Ridge High School, 1966
• B.A., magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970
• M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 1974
• Surgery Residency, Tulane University Associated Hospitals, New Orleans, Louisiana 1974-1979

PERSONAL

• Married Kathryn Sylvester, 1979
• Children: Gregory Stevenson Foster 1980, Bradley Michael Foster 1982, Douglas Andrew Foster 1984

EMPLOYMENT

• Private Practice of General and Vascular Surgery, Charleston Surgical Group, Inc., Charleston, WV, 1979 ot 2001
• CAMC Administration, 2002 - present

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Chairman, Coalition for a Tobacco Free West Virginia, 1998 - 2000
• Chairman, Education Alliance, 2001 - 2002
• Clay Center Campaign
• Board of Directors
• College Summit Kids' Chance WV
• The Clay Center
• WV Symphony Orchestra
• Former Boards
• American Cancer Society
• American Red Cross
• CAMC Health Education and Research Institute
• Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
• Kanawha Pastoral Counseling Center
• United Way of Central West Virginia
• University of Charleston
• West Virginia Medical Institute
• Clubs
• Anvil Club
• Charleston Masonic Lodge #153
• Charleston Rotary Club
• Scottish Rite
• Public Service
• Member of West Virginia House of Delegates -30th District (Kanawha County) 2003 - 2005
• Member of West Virginia State Senate - 17th District (Kanawha County) 2005 -2012

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

• Amateur Astronomy, golf, music, piano, tennis

Peter was born and raised in the Toledo, Ohio area. He graduated from St. Louis University cum laude with a BA in Psychology and was elected to Psi-Chi, the international Honor Society in Psychology. He received his MBA in Marketing from the University of Pittsburgh.

After graduation, Peter began his 40+ year retail career in the executive training program with Famous Barr, a May Company department store based in St. Louis, Missouri. He was recruited to Richmond, Virginia and worked for both Miller & Rhodes and Thalhimers department stores as a buyer before moving into the home arena as a merchandise manager with This End Up Furniture Company. In 2000 he was recruited by Pier 1 Imports, based in Fort Worth, Texas where he spent 15 years rising through the ranks to become Vice-President in charge of their furniture business, leading teams designing and sourcing product. He was instrumental in creating and driving the Pier 1 Kids brand overseeing all merchandising and marketing initiatives for the division. In 2016, he joined Tuesday Morning, based in Dallas as Vice-President, merchandising. Over his career he was involved in many special projects involving recruitment, retainment and training programs as well as nurturing product development skills and assortment planning with new merchants. He acted as a major liaison and ambassador with international partners and companies across the globe, traveling the world frequently.

Peter retired in 2019 and relocated to Bath County. Over his lifetime, his love for music has never wavered, singing in church choirs, glee clubs, as a member of the University Chorale and Madrigal singers at St. Louis University, as well as with the James River Singers, a small ensemble group in Richmond. He has been an active patron of the arts in Richmond and Dallas/Ft Worth and Garth Newel Music center has become an extremely important part of keeping his soul nourished in this small mountain community.

In addition to music, other interests include theatre, architecture, historic preservation, gardens and gardening, travel and reading. He has renovated and restored 5 period homes, culminating with the historic Roseloe Manor within eyesight of the Garth Newel campus. He actively volunteers with the Bath County Arts Association.

Peter also serves on the local boards of Visit Bath and Preservation Bath.

David W. Goodrich received his BBA Degree from the University of Michigan in 1970 and his MBA from the University of Virginia in 1973. Upon graduation, he joined the Sea Pines Company as director of financial planning for Palmas del Mar, its Puerto Rican resort development subsidiary. In 1974, he moved to Chicago where he joined and became an officer in the corporate banking department of the Continental Illinois National Bank. In 1979 he moved to Indianapolis as a sales associate in the F.C. Tucker Company’s commercial real estate division, specializing in industrial and office brokerage from 1979-1984. In 1984, he became the commercial division's office brokerage sales manager. 1986 he and two partners purchased the company and he went on to serve as the Tucker Company’s chief financial officer and executive vice president, and president of its commercial real estate services division until May, 1998. When that division merged with the Turley Martin Company of St. Louis, David became president of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker’s Indianapolis office, and executive vice president of the corporation until July 1999 when he left CTMT to become the founding president and CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, a public-private partnership organization focusing on Indiana’s economic future, where he served until retirement in 2005.

David served as a corporate director for organizations including: State Life Insurance Company, American United Life Insurance Company/One America, Citizens Gas and Coke Utility (where he served as chairman of the board), Methodist Hospital of Indiana (where he also served as board chairman), Clarian Health Partners / Indiana University Health, Irwin Financial Corporation, National Wine & Spirits, and director emeritus of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker Company. David also served as the international president of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors and treasurer of Colliers International Property Consultants.

Outside of his professional positions, David served in numerous leadership positions within his community, including: governor of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, director and chairman of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation, director of Conner Prairie, director and chairman of the Near North Development Corporation, director of the United Way of Central Indiana, founding member of the Central Indiana Life Sciences Initiative (BioCrossroads), director of BioCrossroads, founding member and chairman of the Alliance for Indiana's Future, chairman of the University of Michigan Library Leadership Committee, chairman of the Dean's Advisory Committee of the Indiana University School of Medicine, member of the Indiana University Information Technology Advancement Council, member of the Purdue External Advisory Council, and president of the Economic Club of Indianapolis. Additionally, he held positions including moderator of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Series, member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Advisory Council on Small Business, president of the Penrod Society, president of the Human Society of Indianapolis board of directors, and vice chairman of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra board of directors.

In 1995 David received the Indiana Commercial Realtor of the Year award, and in 2005 was honored by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels as a Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana’s highest civic recognition.

Elizabeth Harralson was born in St. Louis and raised in the small rural town of Louisiana, MO. She earned a B.A. in psychology and art from Oberlin College and a Masters in art education from the University of Missouri. She taught for 6 years in both public and private schools, including the base school at Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey.

She and her husband spent two years in Turkey satisfying his military obligation and enjoyed traveling between 1974 and 1976 in what was then the relatively calm Middle East.

She was the director of senior citizen activities for the Lexington Parks and Recreation Department for some years, then worked for the VMI Development Office as a prospect researcher. Her last work before retirement was serving as the first marketing director for Kendal at Lexington, where she and her husband now live.

She has served on the vestry of Grace Episcopal Church in Lexington for three terms; on the board of Historic Lexington Foundation and the Stonewall Jackson House. She enjoys gardening, needlepoint, and tennis.

David Hopkins received his BS Degree from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1973 and was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. After Naval flight training his first assignment was to an air logistics squadron as a pilot and junior officer. He served in aviation squadrons on active duty and in the Naval Reserve during his thirty years of Naval service and was promoted to the rank of Captain. He was designated a flight evaluator and instructor pilot and held squadron leadership positions in administration, operations and maintenance. He deployed to Europe and Southwest Asia during Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and served as Commanding Officer of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Five Eight in Jacksonville, Florida from 1991 to 1992. While serving in the Naval Reserve he began a commercial airline career that spanned over thirty-five years, including twenty-seven years with Southwest Airlines. He qualified as a Captain for Southwest in 1994 and in 2000 was advanced to Check Airman, a pilot training and evaluator position. He held a management position for Southwest as the Baltimore-Washington Assistant Chief Pilot, and during that tenure was honored with the Southwest President’s Award for professionalism and exemplary personnel leadership. Since he retired from Southwest in 2015 he has been involved in civic and environmental endeavors and assists young people in pursuit of an appointment to Service Academies. He presently serves as chair of a local committee organized to designate the Maury River as a Virginia Scenic River.

Teresa Hudson is a life-long resident of Powhatan County, Virginia where she manages a horse boarding facility at her farm, Terre Haute. She holds Bachelor of Arts (music) and Master of Humanities degrees from the University of Richmond and a Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing) from VCU. Teresa worked for WCVE (PBS) in Richmond for fifteen years as a producer/director of arts programs; she is currently an adjunct professor of English at VCU where she teaches creative nonfiction. A musician and writer of fiction and nonfiction, she has received several residencies in the U.S. and abroad and spends part of every year in St. Petersburg, Russia where she and her husband, Joe Troncale, work with various arts organizations and museums.

Originally from Washington, DC, Keith spent his early years in Northern Virginia, before attending university at VCU in Richmond. A child of rock and roll, Keith sang and played drums in bands until his early thirties, when his parental duties got in the way. Later, while living in Fredericksburg, he had a stint with the local Big Band Society, as a substitute drummer. He developed into a fan of other musical genres, adding classical, jazz and roots music to his personal likes. He was instantly awed the first time he attended a concert at Garth Newel and heard world-class chamber music, performed in what used to be a horse barn. Since that first trip, six years ago, Keith and his wife, Cindy, have volunteered their expertise in construction, and as former innkeepers, to assist Garth Newel with planning and cost estimating for various campus projects.

Community Service, Boards & Associations

• President, Royal District Neighborhood Association, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• President, Habitat For Humanity Chapter, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• President, Downtown Neighborhood Association, Roanoke, Virginia
• Board of Directors, Downtown Roanoke Incorporated, Roanoke, Virginia
• Board of Directors, Dumas Artistic & Cultural Development Center, Roanoke, Virginia
• Fire Fighter III, Mine Run Volunteer Fire Department, Orange County, Virginia
• Shock Trauma Technician, Battlefield Volunteer Rescue Squad, Orange County, Virginia

Patty Lemon was raised on the banks of the Chester River in Chestertown, Maryland. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in English and Art History. She attended Wake Forest University as a graduate student in English and served as Assistant to the Editor of The Wake Forest University Press, a publishing house for contemporary Irish poetry. She has served as editor in the children’s division of the United Methodist Publishing House; an editor in the Creative Services Department of Emory University; and, once her own daughters arrived, the writer of various poems, Santa letters, and Christmas puppet shows. Patty was intrinsically involved with the founding of the Friends of the Arts group at North Cross School and a years-long member of the Book Fair committee as well as a volunteer for The Taubman Museum’s ArtVenture program. Currently, she serves as an Elder for The Second Presbyterian Church. She is a member of The Roanoke Valley Garden Club (a past Program Chair) with a particular enthusiasm for flower arranging, historic gardens, and nurturing her own landscape. She serves on the Board for The Shenandoah Club, working on the guest lecture program, members’ brochure, and the launching of a column called “Members Remember” that captures the memories of this 100-year-old institution. Since childhood, she has been an avid horsewoman and has volunteered in various capacities for Southwest Virginia Hunter/Jumper Association and the Virginia Horse Center. Patty and her husband Stephen live in Roanoke, Virginia, but spare weekends often find her tending a vegetable garden and their 1860 farmhouse.

Felix James (Jay) Lockman is an astronomer specializing in research into the structure and evolution of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. He received his B.S. from Drexel University and PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After a postdoctoral position at the Carnegie Institution for Science, he joined the scientific staff of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, VA. As Project Scientist he was involved in the design of the Green Bank Radio Telescope, and in 1993 moved with his family to Green Bank, WV, to become the Green Bank Observatory Director. After stepping down as Director he was named Green Bank Telescope Principal Scientist, a position he holds to this day. Jay has published numerous articles on his research and has lectured at universities and observatories around the world. He has also been involved in many activities in education and outreach to the general public. Jay created a series of video lectures for “The Great Courses” on the topic “Radio Astronomy: Observing the Invisible Universe”. He has worked as a consultant to NASA and the National Science Foundation, was on the Board of Directors of the American Astronomical Society (2007 - 2010) and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his research and service to the astronomical community.

Jay loves music in all its forms and has performed since childhood on piano, baritone horn (in a high school marching band), and guitar. He currently plays second fiddle (and occasionally banjo) with “Juanita Fireball and the Continental Drifters”, a Pocahontas County WV “Old Time” band. They entertain at square dances, weddings, funerals, and oddly successful fund-raisers.

Callen McJunkin is a native of Charleston, WV and a graduate of the Garrison Forest School in Baltimore, MD and Hollins University (’72), earning a BS with honors in Art History. She and her husband, attorney Tom McJunkin (W&L ‘70, ‘74L), moved to Charleston from Washington, DC in 1975, beginning a long career in support of the arts. She served on the Sunrise Museum board (now the Clay Center) continually from 1978 until her present involvement on the Clay Center Advisory Committee, and was a founding member of the Collectors Club at the Clay Center. She worked as an art consultant and gallerist in Charleston (Callen McJunkin Gallery) for more than 25 years, serving on numerous arts boards, including Children’s Theater, Fund for the Arts, and FestivALL. She was appointed to serve as a Commissioner for the WV Commission on the Arts. She was selected as a YWCA Woman of Achievement for initiating the Art Walk in Charleston, and establishing a visual arts component for FestivALL with the Capitol St. Art Fair. She and Tom (deceased) are the parents of three children and four grandchildren.

Janice Mueller is a registered U.S. patent attorney and author living in Lexington, Kentucky. After earning a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech (Class of ’86), Janice attended law school at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota while working as a patent agent with Merchant & Gould, P.C. in Minneapolis. After law school Janice completed a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Giles S. Rich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Washington, D.C. She then litigated patent and copyright infringement cases as an Honors Program Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice before entering legal academia in 1995.

From 2004-2011 Janice was a tenured full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she taught and wrote in the field of intellectual property law with an emphasis in U.S. and comparative patent law. Janice has also taught at the John Marshall Law School (now University of Illinois-Chicago), Suffolk University (Boston), the University of Kentucky, the University of Washington, Seattle University, Santa Clara University, and William Mitchell College of Law. Janice retired from academia in 2011.

As a full-time law professor for sixteen years, Janice authored two patent law reference texts—the leading patent law student treatise, first published by Wolters Kluwer Legal Education (Aspen Publishers) in 2003 and now in its sixth edition, as well as the comprehensive two-volume practitioner treatise, Mueller on Patent Law, first published in 2012 and currently published by Full Court Press (an imprint of Fastcase, Inc.). Janice continually updates each volume to incorporate significant new judicial decisions and legislative enactments. Intellectual Property Publishing House Co., Ltd. published a Chinese language translation of her student treatise in 2013. Janice has also published law review articles in journals including Baylor Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, Kentucky Law Journal, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, and Washington Law Review.

Janice co-founded the Chisum Patent Academy with her husband Donald S. Chisum in 2009 to provide advanced patent law education and training to experienced practitioners. The Academy holds small-group seminars in various U.S. locations. The seminars focus on recent developments and best practices in patent law and litigation.

Janice has served on the Amicus Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, as a trustee of the Federal Circuit Historical Society, and chaired the Expert Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property for the non-profit Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Janice grew up in a small town in Kentucky. She studied violin and piano as a child. Currently Janice and her husband live on a twenty-acre farm in Lexington, Kentucky with one horse, two miniature donkeys, and two cats. Together Janice and Don have traveled to over thirty countries. Janice also enjoys reading, cooking, fine dining, and almost all forms of music.

Bet Neale, a Virginia native and graduate of the University of Richmond, began her career in the state legislative arena as a research associate at the Division of Legislative services, specializing in the areas of health, education, and welfare. Inspired by her father, who was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Bet continued her work in state politics as an advocate for public education for over 30 years. During her tenure, she served as legislative liaison and lobbyist to the Virginia General Assembly for the Virginia Association of School Superintendents; Director of the Henrico Public Schools Education Foundation; and Director of Government Relations and Lead Lobbyist for the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals from 2000 to 2021. Throughout her career as an education lobbyist, Bet served as a member of the Virginia Education Legislative Liaisons and a member of the Virginia Education Coalition.

Bet and her husband Dr. Mark Neale raised their family in West Point, Virginia, during which time she taught the Great Books Program at West Point High School and served as a member of the Town Planning Council, the Pamunkey Regional Library Board, and the West Point PTA. Bet volunteers with the local food bank in Hot Springs and is a supporter of the Bath County Historical Society, the Bath County Arts Association and Garth Newel.

Lee Osborne focuses his practice on estate planning and trusts and estates administration, which often involves taxation and business planning and related transactions. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), which recognizes individual attorneys for distinguished contributions to the practice of estate planning, probate, and trust law. He serves as the Virginia State Chair for ACTEC and is the current president of the Roanoke Bar Association.

Lee served for six years as an adjunct professor at the Washington and Lee School of Law where he taught Wealth Transfer Planning. He has presented continuing legal education programs on numerous subjects, including ethics, trust planning, and recent developments in trusts and estates law.

Lee is recognized by Best Lawyers in America, including being named Roanoke Lawyer of the Year for Trusts and Estates in 2013. He is among the Virginia Super Lawyersand is one of Virginia Businessmagazine’s Legal Elite. Locally, the Roanoke Rescue Mission honored Lee with the Volunteer of the Year for Legal Clinicaward. He also holds aMartindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent®Peer Reviewrating. In 2019, Lee was named to the Virginia Lawyers Hall of Fame by Virginia Lawyers Weekly in recognition of his commitment to his profession and his community.

Lee is an active volunteer and serves on the boards of the Roanoke Bar Association, the Rescue Mission Foundation, Charitable Advisors of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Western Virginia Charitable Gift Planners, and Mill Mountain Theatre. He is a member of the Roanoke Valley Alleghany Regional Commission (Chair 1995-99), the Roanoke Valley Transportation Planning Organization (Chair 1995-99), and the Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission.

Prior to joining Woods Rogers, he was president of Carter & Osborne P.C.

Charlotte Porterfield is a past board chair of the Child Health Investment Partnership (CHIP), Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge and The Roanoke Council of Community Services. She is a former member of the board of Foundation of the Roanoke Valley and currently serves on the Hollins University Board of Trustees.

Mr. Qureshi is a seasoned bio/pharma professional with 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical legal, transactional, regulatory, and compliance matters. He currently consults for the Medicines for All Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and is Of Counsel to the Clinical Technology Transfer Group, PLLC. Previously, he was VP, Legal Affairs at HemoShear Therapeutics, Inc. He joined HemoShear after a decade working for Novartis Pharma and its affiliates, Alcon Laboratories, Inc., and Sandoz International, GmbH. Mr. Qureshi holds a BS in Biology from Vanderbilt University, an MS in Physiology from VCU Health, and a JD from Vermont Law School. He is licensed to practice in Virginia and Texas (inactive).

Jennifer Rinehart, a native of Charlottesville, VA, was influenced early on by her parents who were active in the community from civic commitments to supporting the arts and music. As an owner of a small travel and accessory business in the 90’s and a former handweaver, Jennifer had a hands on approach to building a strong clientele through quality products and service. Serving on the Shelter For Help in Emergency Board for two terms gave her a deeper insight into the needs of abused women. Jennifer was on the The Hospice of the Piedmont Board for nine years during which time funds were raised to establish Hospice House. Other board commitments have included the Contemporary Club of Albemarle and Albemarle Garden Club. Most recently she was a tutor with the Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle assisting students from Uzbekistan and Rwanda with improving their reading and writing skills. Throughout the years, Jennifer has enjoyed supporting the Heritage Repertory Theater at UVA, The Paramount Theater, The Municipal Band, The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival and Garth Newel Music Center.

Lynn Swann has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and public relations for two of America’s most iconic resorts. Since March 2012, she has been the director of marketing and communications for The Omni Homestead Resort & Spa. She was named the 2023 Marketing Leader of the Year for Omni Hotels and Resorts as a result of her efforts with the grand reopening of the resort and Warm Springs Pools. In 2016, The Homestead celebrated 250 years as America’s first resort and Lynn played a vital role in the creation and implementation of the anniversary year. Lynn is the creator and executive producer of the resort’s podcast, Beyond the Tower, which won a silver anvil award for digital marketing, multimedia series from HSMAI. Prior to joining The Homestead, she served as manager and later director of public relations for The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia for more than 13 years. In this role, Lynn was responsible for media, community, and government relations as well as the Symposium for Professional Food Writers, Sam Snead Festival and Tom Watson Fall Golf Classic. Her efforts on the reopening of the bunker earned a platinum anvil award for public relations from HSMAI. She was the resort spokesperson during the 18-month union negotiations, bankruptcy and sale of the resort. Lynn is a member of PRSA and was awarded the West Virginia PR Practitioner of the Year in 2010. At both resorts, Lynn worked closely with Historic Hotels of America, as well as local and state tourism organizations.

The mother of two daughters, Lynn has been very involved in her community serving eight years as a member of the White Sulphur Springs City Council and more than 15 years as a board member of the town’s Main Street program. A longtime Rotarian, Lynn is currently secretary of the White Sulphur Springs club. She earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.