Staff

 

Polly Rolman-Smith, Executive Director 

director@ashevillehistory.org

 

Katie Ritchie, Membership & Volunteer Coordinator

membership@ashevillehistory.org

 

 

Board of Trustees
2024


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

Vice President
Catherine Brod
Non-profit consultant; EVP, SUNY Purchase, retired

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
Allan Tarleton
Attorney, Van Winkle Law Firm, retired

Ann Ellington Duncan
Attorney and CPA, retired

Catherine Frank
Executive Director, OLLI, UNC-A

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

Dee James
Professor Emeritus, UNC-A

Steven Lee Johnson
Landscape Architect, Partner, Sitework Studios

BJ Kilgore
Attorney, Van Winkle Law Firm

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