Staff


Polly Rolman-Smith, Executive Director 

director@ashevillehistory.org

 

Steven Nickollof, Programs Manager 

education@ashevillehistory.org

Katie Ritchie, Visitor Services & Development Manager

membership@ashevillehistory.org

 

Board of Trustees
2024


President
Steven Lee Johnson
Landscape Architect, Partner, Sitework Studios

Vice President
Catherine Frank
Executive Director, OLLI, UNC-A

Secretary
Michael McLaughlin
National Endowment for the Arts administrator, retired

Treasurer
Dirk Wilmoth
A-B Tech, CFO/vice president of business and finance

Immediate Past President
Ralph Simpson
President, Ralph Simpson & Associates, PR, retired

 

Andrea Clark
Acclaimed Photographer and Documentarian

Ann Ellington Duncan
Attorney and CPA, retired

Martha Fullington
Preservation Specialist and Architectural Historian for the State Historic Preservation Office/NC Archives and History, retired

Dee James
Professor Emeritus, UNC-A

BJ Kilgore
Attorney, Van Winkle Law Firm

Kieta Osteen-Cochrane
Executive Director, Brevard Community College (FL), retired

Terry Roberts
Author, Scholar, and Educator

Allan Tarleton
Attorney, Van Winkle Law Firm, retired