Board & Staff

Meet the people that power the work behind Historic Charleston Foundation.

2025 Board of Trustees

Officers

David Maybank III, Board Chair
J.W. Cantey III, Vice Chair
Larry Gillespie, Secretary
William E. Applegate IV, Treasurer
Anne H. Blessing, Past Chair

Trustees

Jessica Aaron
William E. Applegate IV
Guyton Ash
Eddie Bello
Anne H. Blessing
Colby M. Broadwater III
J. W. Cantey III
Mary Agnes Craig
Sarah R. Dollens
Brian C. Duffy
Herb Frazier
Tyler Page Wright Freidman
Glen Russell Gardner
Lawrence W. Gillespie
Shawan Gillians
Vincent G. Graham
Sarah-Hamlin Hastings
Cynthia H. Hayes
M. Roch Hillenbrand
Sarah Rose Johnson
Alexandra Malloy
David Maybank III
Jeff Perez
Meg Phillips
Ruth M. Ravenel
F. Patricia Scarborough
Anne G. Tinker
Frances L. Webster

Active Past Chairs

W.E. Applegate III
Frank W. Brumley
T. Heyward Carter Jr.
Robert L. Clement III
Jane P. deButts
W. Foster Gaillard
Wilbur E. Johnson
Harold R. Pratt-Thomas Jr.
Richard W. Salmons Jr.
Anne F. Smith
Park B. Smith, Jr.
Zoe Stephens
Susan Parsell Thompson
W. Crayton Walters III
Bradish J. Waring
J. Rutledge Young, Jr.

Trustee Emeritus

Katharine S. Robinson

National Advisory Council (NAC)

2025 MEMBERS

Rose Ann Humphrey and Rusty Aertsen
Jill Almeida and Richard Almeida
Anne and Will Barnes
Tater and Bill Beak
Lindsay Marshall and Courtenay Beebe
Ingrid Johnson and Gary Bunton*
Susan H. Campbell
Ellen Costello and Mike Judge
Susan and Gary DiCamillo
Susan T. Friberg
Shannon and Larry Gillespie
Joan N. Hackenberg
Carol and Roch Hillenbrand
Anne and Dick Keigher
Patti and Bill Loughridge
Jane and Mike McLain
Ruth Ann and Jack McSpadden
Dyke Messler
Judy and Cole Oehler
Julia and Jim Peterson
Peggy and Woody Rash
Andrea and Steve Strawn
Anne Tinker and John Henderson
Marie and Dan Vandivort
Peggy and Brian White
Betsy and Ridley Willis
*Chair
For more information about Historic Charleston Foundation's National Advisory Council and its benefits, please reach out to Courtenay Fain, Chief Philanthropy Officer, 843-724-8498.

Staff Profiles