Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center
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The Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center, more formally known as the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, maintain and administer the Center and its site.
The honorary chairs of the Board of Trustees are the First Lady and her living predecessors. Members of the board are specified by 20 USC 78h and include:
- Ex officio members such as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Librarian of Congress, the Secretary of State (substituting for the Director of the United States Information Agency after that agency was abolished), the Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Superintendent of Schools of the District of Columbia, the Director of the National Park Service, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
- Thirty-six general trustees appointed by the President of the United States for six-year terms. As of mid-2009, Board members include:
Wilma E. Bernstein; Nancy Goodman Brinker; Elliott B. Broidy; Betsy DeVos; Edward W. Easton; Judith Ann Eisenberg; Emilio Estefan, Jr.; Donald J. Hall, Jr.; James A. Haslam, II; Helen Lee Henderson; Joan E. Hotchkis; Sheldon B. Kamins; James V. Kimsey; Nancy G. Kinder; Herbert V. Kohler, Jr.; C. Michael Kojaian; Carl H. Lindner III; Donna G. Marriott; The Hon. Norman Y. Mineta; Marilyn Carlson Nelson; Jack L. Oliver, III; Robert Frank Pence; William Charles Powers; Gabrielle B. Reynolds; Dr. Condoleezza Rice; Joseph E. Robert, Jr.; Duane R. Roberts; David M. Rubenstein; Shirley W. Ryan; Leonard Sands; Stephen A. Schwarzman; Jean Kennedy Smith; Dean A. Spanos; Marc I. Stern; Alexander F. Treadwell; and Stephen A. Wynn.
The board awards the Kennedy Center Honors.
