Telfair Museums is excited to announce that it has added three new members to its Board of Trustees: Chuck Chewning, Lori Judge, and C.B. Richardson; and two new ex-officio trustees: Patricia James and Nicole Blackwood.

Chewning has more than 30 years of experience in luxury residential, hospitality, and preservation interior design. He runs his own design business, Charles H Chewning Interiors, based in Atlanta, with an additional presence in Savannah.

Judge operates Judge Realty, which she opened in 2005, with a personal and professional commitment to community involvement, lifestyle, and environmental integrity. She is one of Savannah’s only certified EcoBrokers. 

Richardson is a managing director and the global chief compliance officer of banking, capital markets, and advisory, research, control group, and personal trading and outside activities for Citigroup.

James, president of the Telfair Academy Guild, worked in information technology, most recently with New York University Langone Medical Center. 

Blackwood, chair of the Friends of the Owens-Thomas House, is a professor of art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

The new Telfair board members join a group that also includes: executive officers Dale Critz Jr., chairman, Swann Seiler, chair-elect, Ted Moore, treasurer, Jan Dorman, secretary, Bob Faircloth, vice chair and acting director, Josh Keller, vice chair, Tom Reilly, vice chair, Jay Neely III, legal counsel, and Ted Kleisner, immediate past chair; trustees Kelly Bouchillon, Malcolm Butler, Leda Chong, Meredith Dulany, Brent Harlander, Catherine Johnston, Ann Levett, Leslie Littlejohn, Kendall McCurry, Wilson Morris, Dave Neises, Rebecca Ogden, David Paddison, Kimberly Smith, Huguenin Thomas III, Vincent West, and Susan Willetts; honorary trustees Dale Critz Sr., Lila Critz, Richard Eckburg, Alice Jepson, Bob Jepson, Carolyn Luck McElveen, Ann Miller, Frida Moore Sinkler, Kenneth Sirlin, Cathy Solomons, and Helen Steward; and ex-officio trustees Nancy Boyd, Julia Butler, Cyreia Sandlin, and Philip Starks.