Board of Trustees & Executive Staff

Elizabeth W. Brooks, Chair
Community Activist

Roderick Gillum
Jackson Lewis, LLP.

Vice Chair

Kelly Green
United Way for Southeastern Michigan

J. Edward Hannan, Treasurer
ValStone Asset Management

Joyce Hayes Giles
DTE Energy

Hiram Jackson, Secretary
Real Times Media, Inc.

Ronald Hewitt
Community Activist

Jon E. Barfield
LJ Holdings Investment Company

John James
James Group International

Michael G. Bickers
PNC Bank

Dennis Johnson
Comerica Bank

Yvette Bing
First Lady, City of Detroit

James W. McGinnis, Ph.D., J.D.
Law Office of James McGinnis

Darrell Burks
PricewaterhouseCoopers (retired)

Eric Peterson
General Motors

Kieth Cockrell
Bank of America

Maureen Roberts
Civic Leader & Philanthropist

James P. Cunningham
Williams Williams Rattner & Plunkett, P.C.

Jimmy Settles 
United Auto Workers

Matthew A. Davis
Chase Bank

Joni Thrower-Grundy
Miller Canfield P.L.C.

Walter E. Douglas Sr.
Avis Ford

Carolynn Walton
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Kala J. Gibson
Fifth Third Bank

Lynn Weaver
Yazaki North America, Inc.

Museum Officers

Juanita Moore, President & CEO

Tyrone M. Davenport, Chief Operating Officer

Sharron Rose, Chief Financial Officer

Robert L. Smith, Vice President of Education and Exhibitions

Ted Canaday, Director of Marketing & Communications