Kathryn Gettings Smith (Chair) is a professional architectural historian that works on a variety of historic preservation and research projects with her Washington, DC-based consulting company, History Matters. She earned her bachelor's degree in Art History from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, and her master's degree in Architectural History from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Over the past six years, she has worked in a variety of capacities in the field of historic preservation, including work as a private consultant and as a preservation planner in two local jurisdictions. She lived in the Ashton Heights neighborhood of Arlington for eight years and now resides in Leeway-Overlee.

Laura L. Bobeczko (Residential Buildings Committee Chair) has a BA in American History from Dickinson College and an MA in American Studies/Historic Preservation from George Washington University. She has worked as an architectural historian, most recently in Washington, D.C., for a small preservation consulting firm. Currently the full-time mother of three-year-old Alexander and one-year-old Zachary, Laura and her husband Paul have lived in Northern Virginia for 12 years, the last five in Arlington. Laura is particularly interested in the county's collection of 20th-century historic resources, especially its garden apartment complexes and unique residential neighborhoods.

Shannon Davis (Institutional Buildings Committee Chair) is a historian with the National Register of Historic Places, working on their web and printed publications. She has a BA in American History from the University of Southern California and an MA in American Studies/Historic Preservation from George Washington University. Her master's thesis examined the architecture of drive-in theaters.

Tom Dickinson
Owner of a historic tobacco warehouse in Wisconsin and a member of several national, state, and local history and preservation groups, he is an avid photographic documenter of historic buildings throughout Arlington and northern Virginia . He has a BA in US History from Beloit College.

Edwin L. Fountain
Edwin L. Fountain is a practicing attorney with the Jones Day firm in Washington, DC. He is past president of the board of trustees of the D.C. Preservation League, the leading historic preservation organization in the nation's capital, and has represented the league before the mayor of the District of Columbia and the D.C. City Council, as well as speaking before bar and industry groups on historic preservation matters. Edwin's pro bono work includes leading Jones Day's representation of disabled veterans in hearings before Army and Navy physical evaluation boards at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Washington Navy Yard.

Suzanne Riley Klein lives in the west Arlington; she's a registered architect and currently works for a well-known Washington, DC architecture firm. She served on the Arlington County Historcal Affairs and Landmarks Review Board for eight years and served as vice chair for two years. She is a lifetime member of the Arlington Heritage Alliance and has a keen interest in historic preservation design and planning.  We are honored that she has agreed to join the board.

Charles Monfort
Former member and chairman of the Arlington County Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board. Current member of the Arlington County Planning Commission.

Judith Priestley Muniec (Publications Editor) is a founding member of AHA and was twice its chairman. She is a senior editor at Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. She majored in English at Barnard College in New York City. She and her husband, Vic, an active member of AHA, have lived in Arlington for the past 13 years. They lived in Fairfax County for eight years after moving to Virginia from Connecticut in 1979. She and Vic were active in preservation and conservation efforts in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where Judy also served as Chairman of the Arts Commission.

Kim O'Connell (Commercial Buildings Committee Chair and Vice-Chair) is a freelance writer who specializes in preservation and conservation. Her articles have appeared in Preservation, Traditional Building, National Parks, and other publications, and she has an MA in Historic Preservation from Goucher College. Kim co-authored the National Register nomination for Fort Ethan Allen, but she is also interested in sites related to Arlington's more recent past. An Arlington resident since 1996, Kim and her husband Eric live in the Aurora Highlands neighborhood.

Jennifer Perunko Historian with the US Veterans Administration, with an MA in Historic Preservation from Goucher College.

Virginia (Gigi) Price (Membership Chair) is a historian who has worked for the Historic American Buildings Survey, division of the National Park Service, for the last ten years. She earned a M.A. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary, a M.A. in architectural History from the University of Virginia, and has lived in Arlington's Glebewood Village since 1999.

Margaret Welsh (Treasurer) runs the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Resource Center, which handles all information requests and supports the work of the Trust's Board of Advisors. She became involved in the Arlington Heritage Alliance when the Fairlington Communities began working on their National Register Nomination for Fairlington. She has a BA in History from Virginia Tech.