The Board of Trustees plays an important leadership, promotion, fundraising and strategy role for the Napa Valley Opera House. Volunteers with ties to the Napa Valley region are members of the board.

Napa Valley Opera House Active Board of Trustees

Executive Committee

D.J. Smith, Chair

Jason Luros, Incoming Chair

Ron Profili, Secretary/Treasurer

Cassandra Walker, Immediate Past Chair

Directors

Gordon Huether

Paul Cantey

Elsa Vare

Angela Cooper

Scott Sedgley

Beverly Shotwell

Emeritus Trustees
Bob Almeida (Emeritus Trustee)*
Margrit Beaver Mondavi (Life Trustee)*
Bill Kieschnick (Life Trustee)

ALUMNI TRUSTEES

Kurt Adler
Daphne Araujo
Martha Atwater
Catherine Ball
Charles Ball
Judy Barber
Thomas Bartlett
Jim Beazley
Jeanne Beech
Mike Bergen
Cameron Bianchi
Alvin Lee Block*
Moira Johnston Block
Susan Bogar
James Boulier
Rudy Braida
Penelope Brault
James Brennan
Naomi Brennan
Judith Brown
David Burnakus
Usha Burns
Janie Cafferata
Dynie Caldwell
Diane Carey
Peter Chiarella
Tim Chun
Nan Clark
Joan Harrison Cohn
Valarie Coon
Jerry Cunningham
KC Cunningham
Monique Curtis
Diane Dame Shepp
Jamie Davies*
Mildred DeDomenico*
Vincent DeDomenico*
John Dermody
Dawne Dickenson
Rene di Rosa
Veronica di Rosa*
Penny Dizmang
Katharine Doyle Spann*
Jill Thomas Doyle
Barbara Eisele*
Anne Evans
Greg Evans
Gabrielle Foetzsch*
Klaus Foetzsch
Larry Friedman
Rodney Friedrich
Jane Garassino

David Gaw
Dan Goldberg
Gary Grace
Robert Green
Steven Gregory
Cor Griev
Joanne Grundland
Jerry Hansen
Deborah Harlan
Linda Lee Harper
Christina Hartmann
Bill Hart
Judith Hartwell*
Robert Hartwell
Robert Henry
Bruce Hopewell
Pepper Jackson
Charles Johnston
Robert Johnstone
Brian Kelly
James Keolker
Mary Kongsgaard
Paula Kornell
Teri Kuhn
Walter Landor
Don Laughridge
Pat Lenz
Dorothy Lind
Carol Loew
Pat Perini Long
Martha May
Thomas May
Mary Ann McComber
Anne McWilliams
Jessica Mennella
Richard Miami
Dorothy Mondavi
Jocelyne Monello Stone
LeRoy Moore
Jack Morgan
Bob Muh
Johanna Muth
Jim Neuman
Barbara Niemann
Hannah Nunn
Harris Nussbaum
Janice O’Malley
Katherine Ohlandt
Joan Osburn
Steve Osburn
Roberta Ousterman

Joseph Phelps
William Phelps
Meryam Pickard
Carol Poole
Harry Price
Jerry Reiley
Lori Reed
Belle Rhodes*
James Rockett
Gregory Rodeno
Charles Roy*
Baldemar Sanchez
Michael Savage
Andrea Schrader
David Schwandt
Irene Scully
Dorothy Searcy*
Raymond Sercu
Sue Dee Shenk
Charles Shinnamon
Jan Shrem
Mitsuko Shrem*
Gail Silverman
Richard Silverman*
Mona Skager
Mary Slawson
Patrick Smorra
Vincent Spohn
Charles Stahl
Charlene Steen
Ruth Ann Swenson
Perry Teaff
Thomas Thornley
Edward Tippetts
Kathy Tranmer
Evalyn Trinchero
Larry Tsai
Virginia Van Asperen*
Elsa Vare
Gene Waken
Richard Ward
John Whitridge*
Richard Williams
John Witt
Philip Woodward
John Wright
Gerald Wuichet
Greg Wycoff
Holly Zaccone

*Deceased

It is possible that someone involved in the early days of the Napa Valley Opera House projects (before written historical records were kept) may have been inadvertently omitted. If you have information pertinent to this list, please notify us. Thank you.