Officers of the Board
J. Christopher Ludwig, president (See also Flora staff )
Chip Morgan, vice president, is a member of the Science and Education Advisory Board of the Wintergreen Nature Foundation.
Since 1995 he has been a volunteer at Wintergreen, teaching and leading field trips in geology and botany.
Michael Terry, secretary (See also Flora staff)
Joslin Gallatin, acting treasurer, is a past president of the Foundation of the State Arboretum at the University of Virginia’s Blandy Experimental Farm. Her tenure saw
substantial private funds raised for the arboretum’s programs and projects, and the first state appropriation was obtained to support the arboretum. Ms. Gallatin is
also a co-chair of the Flora Foundation’s development committee.
Additional Members of the Board
Bill Bolin is manager of environmental biology at Dominion Resources, for which he has directed environmental monitoring programs
since 1973. He is a member of the Virginia Quail Recovery team and the advisory committee of the Virginia Invasive Species Council, and he serves on the boards of
the Mid-Atlantic Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Chesterfield Friends of the Riverfront. He is a recipient of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Conservation
Service Award.
Nancy
Ross Hugo is a former education manager with the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond and a freelance writer whose work has
appeared in national gardening, forestry, and natural history magazines. Her weekly column “Earth Works” appeared in the
Richmond Times-Dispatch for eight years, and her “Habitat” column appeared in the monthly Virginia Wildlife
magazine for 10 years. Her most recent book, with co-author Jeffrey Kirwan, is Remarkable Trees of Virginia
(University of Virginia Press, 2008). She is also the author of Earth Works: Readings for Backyard Gardeners
(University of Virginia Press, 1997) and is director of Flower Camp in Howardsville, Va.
Randee
Humphrey has been education manager at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden since October 2004. She oversees all functions of the
education department, including public, school, and special audience programs, community outreach and partnerships, educational exhibits and interpretation, and management
of library and herbarium collections. Prior to joining Ginter, Ms. Humphrey served for 10 years as director of education and guest
services at the Children’s Museum of Richmond, where she coordinated exhibit and program design for a
$14 million capital expansion project and opened the museum’s new site in April 2000.
Michael Lipford
has been executive director of The Nature Conservancy of Virginia since 1991 and now serves also as vice president in the Conservancy’s eastern region. From 1986 to 1991
he was director of the Division of Natural Heritage in the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and prior to that an assistant professor of biology at
Dabney Lancaster Community College in Clifton Forge.
Marion Lobstein has been a professor of
biology at Northern Virginia Community College since 1976 and teaches field
botany at the University of Virginia’s Blandy Experimental Farm. She serves
on the board of the Foundation of the State Arboretum at Blandy. Ms. Lobstein
is a past vice president of the Virginia Academy of Science and is a co-chair
of its Virginia Flora Committee. She also chairs the Flora Foundation’s audit
and finance committee. She is a founding and active member of the Virginia
Native Plant Society.
Ann Regn
is director of the Virginia Office of Environmental Education at the Department of Environmental Quality. She works with the Virginia Department of Education to align
programs with academic standards. She is a former board member of the Virginia Native Plant Society and founder of the Jefferson Chapter. In 2002, the Chesapeake Bay
Foundation named Ms. Regn Environmental Educator of the Year.
Thomas Smith
since 1991 has been director of the Division of Natural Heritage of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. Mr. Smith worked earlier as ecologist
and director of the Eastern Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program. He serves on the board of NatureServe and for many years has been active in the international
network of natural heritage programs.
Nicky Staunton is a past president of the Virginia Native Plant Society
and has been one of its directors since 1982. She has been an avocational
botanist since 1957 and was a partner in the botanical survey (1993-1996)
of the Woodbridge, Va., U.S. Army base, now known as Occoquan Bay National
Wildlife Refuge. Ms. Staunton is a freelance natural sciences illustrator
and an advocate for native plants and their habitats. She is also a co-chair
of the Flora Foundation’s development committee.
Donna M.E. Ware is curator emerita of the William and Mary Herbarium, where she served from 1969 to 1999. She is a
co-author of three editions of the Atlas of the Virginia Flora and participated in Virginia Botanical Associates’ Digital Atlas project. Dr. Ware’s
research interests include mountain/coastal plain disjunct species, the taxonomy of North American Valerianella, and the demography of the small
whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides). She is active in the Williamsburg Botanical Garden project, the Williamsburg Land Conservancy,
and the John Clayton Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society.