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.
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. 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.
Marjorie Davies is a full-time volunteer with the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area. Formerly Board President, she currently serves as Vice-President of Fund Development, chairs the Investment Committee, and is a trustee for the Steiner Fund and the Education Fund. Marjorie is a retired CPA who worked as a financial manager with Procter & Gamble. For many years she chaired allocations committees at the United Way of Greater Cincinnati, and has also served on the boards of the Hillrise Center for Retirement Living and the Great Rivers Girl Scout Council. She has volunteered, primarily in public relations and membership recruitment roles, on the boards of local chapters of professional organizations such as Cincinnati Business & Professional Women, National Association of Accountants, and the Ohio Society of CPAs.
David Mann and his wife, Betsy, are lifelong residents of the Cincinnati community. David practices law with his son in the Cincinnati firm of Mann & Mann. David is a former U.S. Congressman, Cincinnati Mayor and Member of Cincinnati City Council. His degrees are from Harvard College, cum laude, and Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. David was honorably discharged as a lieutenant in the United States Navy after four years of destroyer duty.
Melanie Moody retired from Procter & Gamble after a career in the Global Business Services business unit where she held roles of increasing responsibility in IT Operations, Information Security and Human Resources. Prior to joining P&G Melanie worked for ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas. She is currently the Treasurer and Board member of the Hearing, Speech & Deaf Center, Board member of INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, Chairperson of the Allen Temple AME Finance Committee and Founder of The Phyllon Foundation, an organization that provides experiential learning opportunities for under-served students to enhance their self-confidence and resilience.
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 senior research epidemiologist with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where she conducts studies of cancer and other diseases among workers exposed to potentially harmful agents in the workplace. She has worked extensively on health effects from exposure to ionizing radiation, uranium mining, beryllium, and dioxin, and is beginning studies of health effects from engineered carbon nanomaterials. She was part of the largest study to-date of international nuclear workers. 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 served for six years as a Trustee of the Clifton Town Meeting and was a member of the Boards of Directors for the Uptown Crossings Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation and the Clifton Gaslight Main Street Association. She has worked more recently as part of a group developing a community garden at the intersection of the Avondale, Clifton and Corryville neighborhoods through the Keep Cincinnati Beautiful program.
Dr. Henry R. Winkler, Trustee Emeritus 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.