The governing body for both the museum and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Board of Trustees is a group of highly dedicated individuals who bring their wide-ranging expertise to ensure the institution as a whole remains responsible and vital to those it serves.
Denise B. Gardner
Chair, Board of Trustees
Eric P. Lefkofsky
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Samuel M. Mencoff
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Sylvia M. Neil
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
David J. Vitale
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Darrel Hackett
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Jay Krehbiel
Treasurer, Board of Trustees
James Rondeau
President and Eloise W. Martin Director,
The Art Institute of Chicago
Jiseon Lee Isbara
President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Leslie Darling
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Alexandra Holt
Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration
Arjun Aggarwal
Frances Beatty
Anne Searle Bent
Heiji Choy Black
Anita Blanchard
Leslie Buchbinder
Robert Buford
Linda Smith Buonanno
Scott I. Canel
Paul Carbone
Honghong Chen
Lester N. Coney
Rita Sola Cook
A. Steven Crown
Jill M. Delaney
Shawn M. Donnelley
Janet Duchossois
Fred Eychaner
Lori Gray Faversham
Stephanie Skestos Gabriele
Denise B. Gardner
Sarah N. Garvey
Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel
Joseph P. Gromacki
Darrel Hackett
Adnaan Hamid
Caryn Harris
Carol Horvitz
Pamela Joyner
Chris Keogh
Harreld Kirkpatrick
Jay Frederick Krehbiel
Josef Lakonishok
Eric P. Lefkofsky
Larry Levy
Robert M. Levy
John F. Manley
Joe Mansueto
Howard M. McCue, III
Eric T. McKissack
Cary D. McMillan
Samuel M. Mencoff
Usha Mittal
Sylvia M. Neil
Michael Polsky
Kristin Rey
Anne Reyes
Linda Johnson Rice
Andrew M. Rosenfield
Michael J. Sacks
E. Scott Santi
Mamadou-Abou Sarr
Anita K. Sinha
Maurice Smith
Alexander Stuart
Marilynn Thoma
John VanderLinden
David J. Vitale
Frederick H. Waddell
Alex Washington
Reeve B. Waud
Karen B. Alexander
Barbara Bluhm-Kaul
Gilda Buchbinder
Carolyn S. Bucksbaum
John S. Chapman
Aaron Fleischman
Mike Fox
Karen W. Frank
Barbara E. Franke
Mary Winton Green
Betty Harris
David C. Hilliard
Mary Jaharis
Barbara Levy Kipper
Anstiss Hammond Krueck
Barry L. MacLean
Susan Manilow
Isobel Neal
Alexandra C. Nichols
Marian Phelps Pawlick
Shirley Welsh Ryan
Ellen Sandor
Gordon Segal
Brenda M. Shapiro
Stephanie Sick
Irving Stenn Jr.
Roger L. Weston
Brandon Johnson
Mayor, City of Chicago
Chasse Rehwinkel
Comptroller, City of Chicago
Myetie Hamilton
President, Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners
Rosa Escareño
General Superintendent & CEO, Chicago Park District
Board of Governors
David J. Vitale, Chair
Leadership Advisory Committee
Michelle Boone, Co-chair
Updated 7/16/2024
