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Richard Gilder (1932–2020)
Lewis E. Lehrman

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S. Andrew Banks
James G. Basker, President and CEO of the Gilder Lehrman Institute
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Alysha Butler
Kenneth Chenault
Robert C. Daum
Dixie De Luca
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Grady Durham
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
Allen C. Guelzo
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Phillip A. Jackson
Alan Jones
Gladstone N. Jones, III
Daniel P. Jordan (1938–2024), Life Trustee
Thomas D. Lehrman
Stephen F. Mandel Jr.
Michael McCormick
David McCullough (1933–2022), Life Trustee
John L. Nau III
Robert H. Niehaus
Linda Pace
William J. Poorvu
Shaiza Rizavi
Julian Robertson (1932–2022), Life Trustee
Valerie Rockefeller
Mary Caslin Ross
Mark Shafir
Nancy Simpkins
Dorothy (Debbie) Stapleton
Luz Towns-Miranda
Richard Webster

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