Trustees by Class

“…Trustees other than ex officio members and members described in Section 5 of this Article III shall be divided into three approximately equal classes.  Each year, one of the classes shall go out of office and successors be elected.”  (from Bylaws, Article III: Board of Trustees, Section 2.)

Class of 2009      Class of 2010      Class of 2011   
Stephanie Bennett-Smith      Gary Abramson      Richard Beyer   
Jack Cassell      Gina Adams      Patrick Butler   
David Drobis      Gary Cohn      Edward Carr   
Gisela Huberman      Pamela Deese      Hani Farsi   
Nicholas Keating      Marc Duber      Charles Lydecker   
Margery Kraus      Fuad El-Hibri      Robyn Mathias   
Arthur Rothkopf      Daniel Gasby      Regina Muehlhauser   
Mark Schneider      Thomas Gottschalk       
Neal Sharma      Alan Meltzer       
Jeffrey Sine           
Ex-officio Trustees           
Jerome King Del Pino 2       Neil Kerwin 3       John Schol 4   
Stephen Silvia 1      Gary Weaver 1        

1 Faculty trustees hold their non-voting positions on the Board from their executive position on the university's Faculty Senate. That is, the chair of the Faculty Senate holds a two-year term on the Board of Trustees, and the immediate past chair holds a one-year term on the Board.

2 The general secretary of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church holds an ex-officio seat on the Board.

3 The president of American University holds a non-voting ex-officio seat on the Board.

4 The bishop of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church holds an ex-officio seat on the Board.