Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Richard Dean Parsons, Co-Chair
Chairman, Citigroup.
Linda Johnson Rice, Co-Chair
CEO, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines
Laura Bush
Former First Lady of the United States
James Ireland Cash, Jr.
Retired James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School Publishing, Harvard Graduate School of Business 
Kenneth Irvine Chenault
Chairman and CEO, American Express Company 
Ann Marie Fudge
Retired Chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Inc. 
James A. Johnson
Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC; former Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae 
Robert L. Johnson
Chairman and CEO, RLJ Companies; Founder, Black Entertainment Television, Inc. 
Quincy D. Jones
CEO, Quincy Jones Productions, Inc. 
Ann Dibble Jordan
Consultant to and independent director of several public companies 
Michael L. Lomax
President and CEO, United Negro College Fund
portrait by Timothy Greenfield Sanders
Doris Matsui
Member of Congress, California’s Fifth Congressional District; Member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents 
Homer Alfred Neal
Director, University of Michigan ATLAS Project, Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of Physics, and Interim President Emeritus, University of Michigan 
E. Stanley (Stan) O'Neal
Former Chairman, CEO, and President, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 
Samuel J. Palmisano
Chairman and CEO, International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation 
Franklin D. Raines
Former Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae; former Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget 
Dr. Ruth Simmons
President, Brown University 
Gregg W. Steinhafel
Chairman, CEO and President of Target Corporation 
H. Patrick (Pat) Swygert
Former President, Howard University 
Anthony (Tony) Welters
Executive Vice President, United Health Group 
Oprah Winfrey
Chairman, Harpo, Inc., and talk show host