Seasongood Foundation Trustees
D. David Altman has dedicated the past 30 years to environmental concerns as a civic leader and as an environmental lawyer. He has also been active in philanthropy, having served since 1975 as the Executive Secretary of the Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation and as a founding member of the Donor's Forum of Ohio (today, known as the Ohio Grantmaker's Forum). He is president of D. David Altman Co. LPA, has chaired or been a member of state and local governmental advisory councils and served on numerous non-profit boards, including the national Civic League, New Life Youth Services, and Family Services of Greater Cincinnati.
Mary Asbury is the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, a position she has held since 1988. She is a practicing attorney specializing in the legal needs of lower income families and community redevelopment. She also serves as Executive Vice President of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor Foundation, through which area Bar Associations partner with Legal Aid to involve private attorneys in pro bono legal services. She is also a member of various committees and task forces for the Ohio Supreme Court, the American Bar Association, and the Cincinnati Bar Association.
William T. Bahlman, Jr. is a retired attorney. He started practicing law at Paxton & Seasongood LPA in 1947 and continued until 1995 when he retired from the Thompson, Hine and Flory - Paxton and Seasongood Office. In addition to practicing law, he was a Professor and Lecturer at the University of Cincinnati's College of Law. He has served on the Seasongood Board since 1983. He is a member the American Law Institute, American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, the Order of Coif, the Cincinnatus Association, and the Cincinnati Yale Club.
David Black retired in 2001 from the position of Senior Vice President at the Gradison Division of the McDonald & Co., where he had worked as an investment consultant for seventeen years. Before that, he worked independently as a Planning Counsel, consulting in strategic long range planning for intermediate size companies. His business career started with Cincinnati Milling Machine. He is a long time member and former President of the Seasongood Board. He is also a member of the Planned Parenthood Foundation Board, the Citizen Complaint Authority, Citizens for Civic Renewal, and acts as an Arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau.
Arn Bortz is a managing partner at Towne Properties Center City Development Group, which specialized in development and redevelopment of mix-use projects in urban centers. On top of his investment into the physical development of Cincinnati, Mr. Bortz spent nine years in Cincinnati city government as a Councilmember and as Mayor. He has been involved in community as a member of the CPS Facilities Master Plan Advisory Committee, Executive Committee of Downtown Cincinnati Inc., Kilgour Schools Local Decision Making Committee, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Advisory Council and Director of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival.
Jay Chatterjee is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Architecture and Planning of the College of DAAP at the University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Dean Chatterjee serves on several civic organizations in the Cincinnati area, including the Urban Design Review Board, Historic Conservation Board and the Contemporary Arts Center Board and currently serves as the president of The Seasongood Foundation for Good Government. He is a past-president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, The Architectural Foundation of the Greater Cincinnati and a past founding member of the Planning Accreditation Board. He is a member of the American Planning Association, and an associate Member of The American Institute of Architects.
He has received the ACSP award for outstanding contributions in city and regional planning, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Department of City and Regional Planning of the University of North Carolina, Apple Award of the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati, the Lifetime Achievement Post-Corbett Award in Cincinnati for his nationally recognized commitment to architecture and world-class design in the community and the American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture.
Janet Hoffheimer, daughter of Murray and Agnes Seasongood, is a lifelong Cincinnatian. She attended grade school at Ms. Lotspeich's School, followed by a year at Hughes High School and then Hillsdale High School. Sharing her parent's interest in good government, Ms. Hoffheimer has served on the Board of the Seasongood Foundation, as well as the Boards of the Charter Committee and the Charter Research Foundation. Among the other civic activities that she is engaged in are the Schmidlapp Park Music Fund Committee, which provided for free concerts in Cincinnati's public parks, and the Workum Scholarship Fund, which works to increase the educational opportunities of young men and women.
Bruce Petrie Sr. is a retired lawyer and civic leader. He was a founding member of the Board of the Seasongood Foundation and later served as its President. Among his many civic activities, Bruce Petrie is a member and former President of the Charter Research Institute as well as the Cincinnati Bar Association. He is a former member of the Hamilton County Good Government League, Ohio Ethics Commission, and National Civic League. He served both the Indian Hill School Board and Indian Hill Green Areas Advisory Committee as a former member and President. In addition, he is a co-founder of the public radio station WGUC. He has long been active in attempts to reform the Ohio judicial selection process.
Dr. Myrtis Powell is President and CEO of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. Prior to joining the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, Dr. Powell worked for Miami University, where she had served for twenty-one years, the last thirteen as Vice President for Student Affairs. She is currently a member of the following boards: the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, the Mayerson Academy, Art Links, Bethesda Hospital, Inc. and the Union Central Life Insurance Company. Nationally, she serves on the board for the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington, D.C. and the National Child Labor Committee in New York City.
Tim Riordan has served as Acting City Manager to both the City of Cincinnati and Dayton, as well as having held many senior public finance positions, during the past thirty-five years. He works part-time as the Director of the Short Vine Development Company. Tim is also a frequent lecturer for the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), most recently creating and implementing the GFOA's economic development training seminars.
Hon. Fanon A. Rucker has worked as an attorney since 1996. He is a former Assistant City Prosecutor and former associate with the law firm of Santen and Hughes. In 2007, Judge Rucker was appointed to the Hamilton County Municipal Court. Fanon is also a past president of the Cincinnati Bar Association, a member of the Ohio Bar Association, and a Trustee of Allen Temple Church and the Catholic Inner City Education Fund. In addition, he serves as a board member of Boys Hope and Girls Hope, and the Children's Law Center.
Mary Schubauer-Berigan is a research epidemiologist for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where she conducts studies of cancer among workers exposed to potential occupational carcinogens. She is currently a member of the Planning Committee for the 2008 American Statistical Association Conference on Radiation and Health, as well as a member of the Epidemiology Sub-Committee working on the International Combined Nuclear Worker Study for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). In 2003 and 2006, she was a member of the Working Group for the World Health Organization's and International Atomic Energy Agency's efforts to advise the United Nations on the scientific basis for awarding compensation claims for diseases induced by exposure to ionizing radiation in the workplace.
Dr. Schubauer-Berigan still finds time to lead an active civic life within her own neighborhood of Clifton. She currently serves as a Trustee of the Clifton Town Meeting and a member of the Board of Directors for the Uptown Crossings Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation. In 2006, she was named a Rising Star by the YWCA Academy of Career Women of Achievement in Greater Cincinnati.
Dr. Henry R. Winkler is currently President Emeritus and University Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, where he served as President for seven years. He is also University Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University where he was served as an educator in a variety of roles for thirty years. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the National College Board, National Humanities Council, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, American Council on Education, and a member of the Ohio Humanities Council, as well as various other civic groups.