Barry Christopher Howard was born at Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dale Harley and Margaret Catherine Howard.  He was married on September 7, 1991 to the former Amie Joan Palumbo, a native of Illinois, and the daughter of the late Anthony Joseph Palumbo and Joanne Kaye Sibigtroth MacDonald.  Barry and Amie reside in northern Maryland, and have four children.

Barry studied at Regis University, in Denver, Colorado, earning a Bachelor of Science in Business, in 2000. He graduated summa cum laude; was named a member of Alpha Sigma Nu; and was a commencement speaker. Barry then completed his graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland earning an M.B.A., in 2012.  He was a member of JHU’s Student Honor Council and Delta Sigma Pi.  Subsequently, Barry completed post-graduate studies, on campus, at Harvard Business School, and leadership training at the Burnham-Rosen Group.

Since 2017, Barry has been the chief financial and administrative officer (CFAO) at New America, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C. focused on the future of war; artificial intelligence; online privacy; higher education; the future of automation and work; and several other strategic initiatives.  Previously, Barry was the chief financial officer (CFO), and a senior vice president, at World Relief, an international relief and development agency founded in 1944, working directly in over 25 countries, and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.  Prior to his time at World Relief, Barry was the chief financial officer (CFO) and vice president at YWAM, a relief and development agency working in some of the world’s most remote regions.

With over 25 years of experience in the non-profit operational and financial sectors, Barry has extensive experience in international operations, and has traveled to over sixty countries. He has held numerous board roles on international microfinance institutions, including Beselidhja Zavet Microfinance (Kosovo); KREDIT Microfinance Institution (Cambodia); URWEGO National Bank (Rwanda), and others. He has successfully monetized several at capital inflection points, reinvesting equity back into local communities in developing countries. In 2020, he was recognized by DCA Live as one of Washington, D.C. 's top non-profit CFO’s.


Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut (General Society Education Committee and Member Outreach Committee; Connecticut Society Delegate to the General Society; Member of the Connecticut Standing Committee)
• General Society of Colonial Wars (former Deputy Governor General; member of the New York, Florida, Maryland and Colorado Societies)
• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (Society Chaplain)
• National Gavel Society (former Vice President)
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Honorary President General)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Honorary President General)
• Order of the Indian Wars of the United States (Past Commander)
• National Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Knight; President General)
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)
• Presidential Families of America (Honorary President General)
• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Honorary Chief Justiciar)
• Winthrop Society (Past President General)
• Son of a Witch (Honorary President General)
• National Order of the Blue and Gray (Past Commander General)
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Treasurer General; member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Knight; Chaplain)
• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter (UK; Chaplain and Board Member of the American Friends; Descendant Member)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Third Vice President General; Founder Member)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety)
• Military Order of the Crusades 
• Aztec Club of 1847 (Member of the Executive Committee)
• Hereditary Order of the Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution (Treasurer General)
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (former Member of the Council)
• General Society Sons of the Revolution (life member New York Society)
• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Colorado Society Treasurer and Chaplain)
• Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in City of New York
• Saint Andrew's Society in the State of New York (life member)
• Veteran Corps of Artillery in the State of New York (Corporal)
• Saint George's Society of New York
• Saint George's Society of Baltimore
• Military Society of the War of 1812
• Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Maryland (former First Vice President)
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench & Bar 1565-1861 (Treasurer General)
• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims (Member of the Council)
• Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain
• Order of the Crown in America
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former Chaplain General; former Colorado Governor)
• Descendants of Colonial Mothers (Treasurer)
• Jamestowne Society (former Auditor General; former Member of the Council; founding Governor of the First Colorado Company)
• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
• General Society of the War of 1812
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Councilor General)
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
• Piscataqua Pioneers
• Netherlands Society of Philadelphia
• Welsh Society of Philadelphia
• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States
• Military Order of the Carabao
• Dutch Settlers Society of Albany
• Huguenot Society of America
• National Huguenot Society
• Society of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (former Council Member)
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
• National Society of Sons of American Colonists
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (former Colorado Society Chaplain)
• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Master Guilder; Charter Member)
• Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers
• Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware (former Patroon)
• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
• National Society Sons of Colonial New England
• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
• Order of New England
• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Treasurer)
• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former Chaplain)
• Order of the First Families of Maine (former First Vice President General)
• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire (former Director)
• Order of the First Families of Connecticut (Founder Member)
• Order of the First Families of First Families of Vermont
• Order of the First Families of Maryland
• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor
• Order of the Norman Conquest
• Descendants of the Knights of Bath
• Order of the Second World War
• Order of the First World War
• Military Order of the World Wars
• Order of Descendants of Colonial and Continental Officers
• International Military Order of the Southern Cross
• Descendants of Mexican War Veterans
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers
• Pioneer Association of the State of Washington
• Plymouth Hereditary Society
• Order of Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America
• Society of Mareen Duvall Descendants
• National Society of Saints and Sinners 
• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
• Hereditary Society of Teachers
• Order of the Honorable Artillery Company Inc.
• Noble Society of Celts
• Royal Society of Saint George
• Descendants of Whaling Masters
• National Society of Descendants of Textile Workers of America
• Noble Company of the Court of Saint Mary of Walsingham (Honorary Member)
• Sons of Spanish American War Veterans (associate member)
• Naval Order of the United States (associate member)
• Scotch-Irish Society of America (associate member)
• Cleveland Grays (associate member)
• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia (associate member)
  
  
  

Chivalric Orders

Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of England)


Other Notes

Barry is a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. He continues to actively serve on the boards of a number of relief and development agencies, as well as several historical and non-political civic organizations, including the board of the Blue Haven Children’s Home in Uttar Pradesh India; the North India Fund in Varanasi, India; and is a founding board member of the Justice Conference.  He is an active Trustee of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Society, which stewards the Eisenhower Farm and legacy in Gettysburg, PA.  Barry is an Eagle Scout, classical guitarist, competitive chess player, and his interests include philosophy, theology, psychometrics, and astronomy.  

Dr. Hardwick Smith Johnson, Jr., the son of Hardwick Smith Johnson, Sr. and Louise Johnson, was born in Millen, Georgia.  Dr. Johnson received his B.A. from Atlanta Christian College, and completed his M.Ed. at Georgia Southern University.  He then received his Ed.S. from Georgia State University and his Ed.D. from Nova Southeastern University. 

Society Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut (Member of the Standing Committee 2012 – present, Chairman Historical Education Committee, Chaplain 2022 – 2025)
• General Society of Colonial Wars (Member of the Georgia, North Carolina, and District of Columbia Societies)
• National Gavel Society (former Secretary)
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (President General; member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Honorary President General)
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Captain General; Knight of Albion of the Conversion of the Twenty-Three Kings)
• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Knight; First Vice President General)
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Honorary President General)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Honorary President General; Founding Member)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General)
• National Society Sons of the American Colonists (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of the Crown in America (Councilor for Georgia)
• Hereditary Order of the Descendants of the Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25
• Colonial Order of the Acorn
• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
• Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain (Royal Scribe)
• Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers (First Vice President General)
• Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Honorary Commander)
• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797 (Honorary Governor General)
• General Society Sons of the Revolution (member of the Pennsylvania Society)
• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (former Vice President General-South Atlantic District; former National Trustee-Georgia; former President of the Georgia Society; Recipient of the Minute Man Award)
• General Society of the War of 1812 (former Vice-President General for Georgia; former President of the Georgia Society)
• Aztec Club of 1847 (former Vice President)
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (former Secretary General; former Council Member)
• Jamestowne Society (Honorary Governor of the First Georgia Company)
• Son of a Witch (Honorary President General)
• National Huguenot Society (life member)
• Georgia Huguenot Society (life member)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Justiciar)
• Military Order of the Crusades
• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
• National Order of the Blue and Gray (life member)
• Royal Society of Saint George
• Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers

Authorships

A History of the Johnson Family and the Johnson Church, Printed Privately, 1974
Some Descendants of James and Rachel Oglesby, Printed Privately, 1991
Improving Middle School Students' Participation and Academic Achievement in a Gifted Education Program, Proquest, 2002

Chivalric Orders

* The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knight, bestowed by warrant of its Sovereign Head Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

Listed In

• Marquis Who's Who in America

Other Notes  

Dr. Johnson is active in multiple civic, historical and cultural organizations. He serves on the Harpers Ferry Historic Landmarks Commission, the Board of the Harpers Ferry-Bolivar Historic Town Foundation, and is a member of The Pilgrims of the United States, and the Beresford Family Society. 

Dr. Johnson has been named a Kentucky Colonel, an Honorary Citizen of the City of Los Angeles, an Honorary Admiral of the Texas Navy, and an Honorary Member of the Coweta Tribal Town of the Creek Indian Nation.   Dr. Johnson is a recipient of the Medal of Honor from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, the Honor Medal of the National Society Daughters of American Colonists and the Outstanding Young Men of America Award.  He was presented the 9th Annual C. Sims Bray Literary Award of the Atlanta Chapter (Georgia Society) of Colonial Wars.

Dr. Johnson’s interests include medieval history and genealogy, heraldry, international travel, Theatre Pipe Organ Music, and collecting antique Southern Folk Pottery (jugs, churns, jars, crocks).

John Hallberg Jones and Lorraine "Lane" Yatckoske Jones are lifetime residents of Minnesota, having attended high school together.  They have two sons and seven grandchildren

Mr. Jones attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.  After a thirty-seven-year career in the paper industry, Mr. Jones retired a Partner in Unisource Worldwide Inc. in 2000.


Memberships

• National Gavel Society (Honorary President)
• General Society of Colonial Wars (former Gentleman of the Council of the Wisconsin Society)
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)
• National Society of Sons of American Colonists (Founder; Honorary Governor General)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General; Minnesota Branch Founding Governor)
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (former Vice President General; 1985 Minuteman Award Recipient; former President of the Minnesota Society; former Secretary-Treasurer of the Minnesota Society, serving for nearly fifty years)
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Auditor General; former Treasurer General)
• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Honorary Commander)
• Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars (Honorary Governor General)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (former Treasurer General; former Councilor General)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (former Advisory Council Member; Founder Member)
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (former Archivist; Member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
• Order of the Crown in America
• National Guild of St. Margaret (former Second Vice President General)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (former Surety)
• Military Order of the Crusades (former Surety)
• Colonial Order of the Acorn
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former President of Minnesota Society)
• Military Society of the War of 1812, former member
• Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660
• Society of the Friends of St. George's & Descendants of the Knights of the Garter (Life Descendant Member)
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Wisconsin Society former Councilor General)
• Jamestowne Society
• Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York, former member
• Society of the Descendants of Colonial Clergy
• National Huguenot Society (Minnesota Society former President)
• General Society of the War of 1812 (former Vice President General for Minnesota of the General Society; former President of the Minnesota Society)
• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (former Treasurer General)
• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Member of Board of Assistants of the Minnesota Society)
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (former Chaplain General)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench & Bar 1565-1861
• Order of Lafayette
• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States
• Military Order of the World Wars (Founding Adjutant of Fort Snelling Chapter; former Commander, former Chaplain)
• Presidential Families of America (Regent for Minnesota)
• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
• Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Military Order of the Stars and Bars
• National Order of the Blue and Gray (former Treasurer General)
• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (First Chaplain General)
• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America (Charter Member; former Chaplain)
• First Families of Massachusetts
• Order of the First Families of Maine
• Descendants of the Knights of the Bath
• Order of the First World War
• Order of the Second World War
• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire (Founder member, Founding Chaplain General; former Director General)
• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Founding Chaplain General; former Deputy General)
• National Society of Saints and Sinners (Founding Member, Founding Chaplain)
• Registry of Famous and Infamous Relatives in American Families (9/9 Categories)
• Hereditary Society of Teachers (Founder Member)
• Son of a Witch
• Order of Descendants of Justiciars (Founding Member; former Councilor)
• Society of the Descendants of Lady Godiva (Founding Member)
• Order of the Norman Conquest (Founding Member)
• Order of Alba
• Pilgrim William White Society
• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims
• Order of Descendants of El Cid
• Order of the Descendants of Native Americans and Friends
• National Society Descendants of American Railroad Workers
• Order of the Kings and Queens of the Holy Land
• Legion of Vikings and Valkyries
• Founders Fellowship
• Descendants of the IX
• Descendants of the Templar Knights
• Descendants of Fossors
• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands
• Descendants of Early Postmasters
• Descendants of American Farmers
• Order of Cloak and Dagger
• The Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of Great Britain

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Officer Companion)
• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Grand Cross, Founder, Prior I, and currently Treasurer of the Priory of Our Lady of Sorrows of the West; former Grand Secretary of the Grand Priory of the USA)
• Knight of Grace of the Military and Hospitaller Orderof Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem
• Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni (Grand Officier; former member of the Council of Archons of the government of the Order; former Administrative Officer for the Exarchate of the USA)
  
  

Other Notes

Mr. Jones is also active in numerous fraternal orders.  He has been involved in various political and community activities over the years, including management of state Senatorial campaigns and PTA leadership.  He is a Kentucky Colonel; an Honorary Chief of the Minneapolis Fire Department; a LT COL Aide de Camp of the Alabama State Militia; and an Arkansas Traveler.  Mr. Jones is also an accomplished magician, an avid ornithologist, pianist, and traveler, having logged over one million airline miles. In 1996 he returned to travel exclusively by train, his lifelong favorite method of travel. Lane and John are strong adherents of the Seventh Day Adventist faith.

Brantley Carter Bolling Knowles, a native Virginian, is the daughter of Albert Stuart Bolling, Jr. and Brantley Carter Lamberd Bolling. She is married to Peter I.C. Knowles, II, Captain USAR (Ret.); they have two sons, three granddaughters, and one grandson. She and her husband maintain residences in Virginia and Palm Beach. Mrs. Knowles’ early education was in Portsmouth, VA, and she was later graduated from St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, VA. She was a 2009 Attingham Trust Summer Scholar (UK), and participated in decorative arts programs at West Dean College (Sussex), the University of Nottingham, and the University of York, all in England. A retired appraiser of antiquities and personal property, she was the founder and former owner of Chadwick Antiques, LTD. Mrs. Knowles, a museum management and decorative arts consultant, is former Virginia Regent of Gunston Hall Plantation (1755). She is a past President General of The Colonial Dames of America, 2018-2021, which operates the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum (1799, the eighth oldest structure in Manhattan). Mrs. Knowles is a frequent lecturer on historical, decorative arts, and genealogical subjects. In 2017, Mrs. Knowles was one of 30 international, residential scholars at Windsor (UK) who were privileged to study the collection of HM, the Queen, under the aegis of Attingham Royal Collection Studies.

Mrs. Knowles is a former member of the Lincoln Cathedral Foundation board of directors. Additionally, she is Vice President of the American Friends of St. George’s Chapel (UK) and the Hereditary Descendants of the Knights of the Garter (UK). Mrs. Knowles serves on the Council of American Ancestors / New England Historic Genealogical Society NEHGS, a 250,000-member organization. She is on the Advisory Board of the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA. Mrs. Knowles is an active member of the Towton Battlefield Society (UK), which preserves the site of the bloodiest battle in the history of England, fought March 23, 1461, during the Wars of the Roses. Mrs. Knowles is a Board Member of the College of Arms Foundation USA, and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Trust for Scotland USA.

Memberships 

• Colonial Dames of America (Past President General, term 2018-2021) 
• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (Former Virginia President) 
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General)
• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Honorary President General) 
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Honorary President General; member of Saint Louis) 
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (President General) 
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Secretary General) 
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Honorary Governor General) 
• Order of the First Families of Virginia
• Jamestown Society 
• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Mayflower Ball Executive Committee) 
• Daughters of the Cincinnati (Board of Managers)
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal (Founding Regent) 
• Descendants of the Knights of the Garter (UK); (First Vice President) 
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Honorary President General) 
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Second Vice President General) 
• Order of the Crown in America 
• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta (Surety) 
• Military Order of the Crusades 
• National Gavel Society 

Chivalric Orders 

The Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, II) - Commander, North America Priory

Other Notes

In Virginia, Mrs. Knowles is or has been a trustee of: The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA Preservation VA), The Historic Prestwould Foundation, Gunston Hall Plantation, and Historic Petersburg Museums Foundation. Mrs. Knowles’ Florida activities include: The Flagler Museum, The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. An accomplished flower show judge, Mrs. Knowles is a Judge Emerita in Floral Design for both the Garden Club of Virginia, and the Garden Club of America. Mrs. Knowles serves on the Advisory Council of Hillwood Museum, the former Washington D.C. home of the cereal heiress and collector, Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Charles Clement Lucas, Jr., MD, ABFP, son of Charles Clement Lucas, Sr., and Sallie Elizabeth Williams was born in Wilson, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received an A.B. in Chemistry and History, and the Doctor of Medicine. He completed his medical training at Duke University where he was Chief Resident of Family Practice. He was elected to membership in the Order of the Old Well at the University of North Carolina. For his medical leadership activities in North Carolina he received The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest award given by the State of North Carolina.

Dr. Lucas served in the United States Public Health Service from 1970-1972 and was commissioned as Senior Assistant Surgeon. Dr. Lucas moved to New York City in 1979 where he lived until 1988 when he moved to Greenwich, Connecticut. He maintains a private practice of internal medicine in Larchmont, New York, and is certified by the American Board of Family Practice. He is the father of Christina Cady Lucas and Ryan Clare Lucas.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society
• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25
• Order of Founders and Patriots in America (Governor General; former Governor of Connecticut Society)
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)
• Order of the Indian Wars of the United States (Senior Vice Commander)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Honorary President General; Founder Member)
• Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York (Past Commandant; Past President of the Council of Administration)
• Military Society of the War of 1812 (Past President)
• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (Past President)
• National Society Sons of American Colonists (President General)
• General Society of Colonial Wars (Member of the New York, Florida and North Carolina Societies; former Steward of the New York Society)
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Corresponding Secretary)
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Curator General)
• Order of the Norman Conquest (Second Vice President General)
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Knight)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States (Surgeon General)
• Order of the Crown in America (Third Vice President General)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Justiciar)
• Military Order of the Crusades
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• National Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
• Aztec Club of 1847
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (former Secretary General)
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
• La Société Française de Bienfaisance
• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former Surgeon General; former President and life member of the New York Society; member of North Carolina Society)
• General Society War of 1812 (former Council Member)
• Military Order of Loyal Legion in the United States
• Jamestowne Society (former National Councilor; former Governor of the New England Company)
• Order of First Families of North Carolina
• Order of Alba (Third Vice President General)
• Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York (former Physician)
• Saint George’s Society of New York
• Saint David’s Society of New York
• New England Society of the City of New York
• Saint Andrews Society of North Carolina, Inc.
• Founders Society of South Carolina
• Society of the Second War with Great Britain in the State of New York
• Huguenot Society of America
• National Huguenot Society
• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter (Descendant Member)
• Military Order of World Wars
• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (First New York Continental Chapter; Member of the North Carolina Society; former President of the Captain Matthew Mead Branch #11 in Connecticut)
• Military Order of Foreign Wars in the United States
• Naval Order of the United States (New York Commandery)
• Welsh Society of Philadelphia
• Royal Society of Saint George
• Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy
• National Society Sons of Colonial New England 1620-1776
• Flagon and Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers
• Huguenot Society of South Carolina
• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (former Council Member)
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
• Order of First Families of North America 1492-1692 (Surgeon General)
• Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers (Surgeon)
• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
• National Society Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
• National Society of Saints and Sinners
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Clans McFarland, Stewart, Galbraith
• Order of First Families of Maryland
• The Augustan Society
• Chivalric Orders
• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Officer, bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of England)
• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Chirurgeon, Priory of Saint Michael and Saint George of New York City)

Notes

COL Lucas was granted a Coat of Arms and a Letter Patent by William David Hamilton Sellar, Lord Lyon of Scotland in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 27 October 2009. The arms have been registered with all accrediting bodies.

He is a member of the Pilgrims of the United States; the Church Club of New New York; Squadron A Association of New York; Northeast Harbor Fleet; The University Club of Chicago; Soldiers Sailors Marines Airmen Club; American Philosophical Society; Youth Foundation of the City of New York; Christ Episcopal Church, Greenwich; New York Academy of Sciences; North Carolina Society of the City of New York; The Dinner Dancers of the City of New York.

COL Lucas a Board member of the Lincoln Cathedral Foundation and member of the Holland Lodge #8, F &AM; Ancient Chapter No.1, Royal Arch Masons; Morton Commandery No. 4, New York City, Knights Templar; Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of New York, 32nd degree. In addition, Dr. Lucas is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. 

Charles William Neuhauser, son of Charles William Neuhauser and Joan Schuyler Lawrence was born in Washington, D.C. He attended the Berkshire School in Massachusetts. Mr. Neuhauser completed his undergraduate work at Columbia College . He also attended Princeton University .

Mr. Neuhauser currently resides in Tuxedo Park New York with his wife, Liane Lunny Neuhauser and their son. His career is in investment management.

Hereditary

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Treasurer General; Past Governor of the New York Society)
• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (President)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne (President General)
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General)
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (First Vice President General)
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent
• Colonial Order of the Acorn (Treasurer)
• General Society of Mayflower Descendants
• Dutch Settlers Society of Albany
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of England)

Notes

Mr. Neuhauser is a member of the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York, the Tuxedo Club, the Maryland Club, The Pilgrims. He and his family are Episcopalian.

Ross Gamble Perry, a native of Nashville, Tennessee is the son of John Edward and Sally Granger Perry. He is married to Diane Hanretty Perry, and has two daughters: Kathryn Patterson Perry and Sarah Ross Perry

Mr. Perry was graduated from the University of Virginia, with a B.A. Economics. He retired in 2013 from a 40-year career in banking; the last 30 years with SunTrust Bank in Richmond, VA and Washington, DC. Upon retirement, Mr. Perry was Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Private Wealth Management Division.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati (President General)
• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
• General Society Sons of the Revolution
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
• General Society of Colonial Wars
• General Society of the War of 1812
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
• General Society of Mayflower Descendants
• Society of the Founders of Norwich, CT
• Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Washington, DC
• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
• Jamestowne Society
• Flagon & Trencher
• Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge
• Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey
• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor
• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of the New Haven Colony
• Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants
• Clan Ross Association USA
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
• National Society of Americans of Royal Descent
• Order of the First Families of Virginia

Listed In (Publications)

• University of Virginia Lawn Resident Directory 1895-1995
• Social Register 2013
• The Social List of Washington, DC 2013

Authorships

• The Descendants of John Perry of Roxbury, MA 1999

Other Notes

Mr. Perry is a member of Christ Church Alexandria, Virginia. He served on the Lab School of Washington Board of Trustees from 1995-99 and the Virginia Opera Board of Directors from 1996-2008. Mr. Perry is a lifelong hunter and target shooter.

Nancy Dianne Alley Robinson, a native of North Carolina lives in Mooresville, North Carolina after having lived in Virginia for 25 years. She is the daughter of Robert Moore Alley and Florence Lucinda Isenhour. She is the widow of Charles Corbett Robinson who served this country in the Navy in World War II and has one son, John Luther Boyter, III married to Melissa Knight Boyter, one adopted grandson, Edward Lee Boyter and one granddaughter, Katherine Dianne Boyter. She attended Western Carolina University and is currently a business woman, a mother, grandmother and “Domestic Engineer" (as fondly called by her husband). Mrs. Robinson and her husband were owners of Burton and Robinson, Inc., a concrete construction firm founded by her husband. She is a member of The Trump National Golf and Country Club, a member of the South Lake Norman Garden Club, a Life Member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority and a member of Mt. Zion Methodist Church.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society
• National Society Daughters of the Cincinnati
• Order of the Crown in America
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Dame of the Order of Albion of the Conversion of the Twenty-Three Kings)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Honorary President General, Founder of the Scholarship)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America 
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Royal Blood
• National Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of VA
• Colonial Dames of America 1890 (NC Chapter President)
• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Honorary NC State President)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Chairman Emeritus of the Baronial Order Magna Charta- Magna Carta Trust American Law School Scholarship)
• Military Order of the Crusades
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Honorary Governor General)
• National Society Daughters of American Colonists
• National Society Dames of the Court of Honor
• Descendant Member of the Friends of St. Georges’ Chapel and the Knights of the Garter (Descendant Member) UK
• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Honorary State President)
• Jamestowne Society (Central NC Chapter)
• Order of the Three Crusades 1096-1192 
• First Families of North Carolina
• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Honorary President General)
• Presidential Families of America (Honorary President National)
• Order of the Norman Conquest (Honorary President General)
• First Families of Virginia

Chivalric Orders

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem(bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of England)

Notes

Mrs. Robinson is an avid Genealogist with twenty-eight proven Confederate Ancestors, eighteen DAR Patriots, three Jamestowne lines, and fifteen Colonial Dames lines. She does cross stitch, reads and loves traveling, collects antiques and has an extensive and reputable collection of René Lalique glass (over 600 pieces). A lover of football, she is an avid fan of the Washington Redskins.

Mrs. Robinson has been a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Children’s Charities of Greater Washington D.C. for twenty years. Additionally, Mrs. Robinson served as Chairman of “Rally Round the Redskins” auction for five years, raising over $750,000.00 for the charity. She served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2002-2007 and has been a member of the Board since 1989. She is still an active participant in raising money for the Houses and the families. With her move to North Carolina where she grew up she will also support the new Charlotte Ronald House.

Mrs. Robinson is a fundraiser for many charities some of which are the Ada Jenkins House, in Davidson, NC for families in need, The Peninsula Community Foundation, The Wounded Warriors Fund, the Veterans Hospital in Salisbury, NC. and the USO room, Charlotte Douglas Airport and Lincoln Cathedral, UK.

Mrs. Robinson received the Judah P. Benjamin Award from United Daughters of the Confederacy for civic work with Ronald McDonald House. She also received the Winnie Davis Award from United Daughters of Confederacy for work preserving the Virginia Division Minutes.

Michael P. Schenk, eldest son of the late Dr. and Mrs. C. Perry Schenk (Lola Margaret Gleason) was born and raised in Minnesota. He is married to the former Laura Ann Kearney and together they have three children; Michael (Virginia Neill Dean), John (Susan Elaine Allmon) and Meaghan (Jonathan Johnson), as well as grandparents to five grandsons. His interests in genealogy began in junior high school as a result of his mother’s involvement in NSDAR, he joined the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution his senior of college.

Michael received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, his BSMI and MSMI from the Medical College of Georgia in 1973/1974. He is a Board-Certified Medical Illustrator. He has received numerous awards for his illustrations and photography and was inducted as a Fellow in the Association of Medical Illustrators in 2002. Mike has held positions at the University of Virginia; the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, where he started a department; the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas as an Assistant Professor in the Medical Illustration Track; and retired in 2015 as Director of Biomedical Illustration Services at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Over the course of his career, he has created thousands of illustrations in all scientific disciplines and has been published by every major publisher. He is credited with over six authored/co-authored anatomical/zoological atlases and textbooks in multiple editions, as well as contributor to numerous article/book chapters in various medical subspecialties. He has presented scientific material and exhibited scientific/medical visuals at various national and international venues.

Memberships

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (VPG Southern District)
• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta (Justiciar)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Secretary General)
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the U.S.A. (Archivist General)
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Custodian General)
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Knight)
• Order of the Norman Conquest (Co-Founder, President General)
• Order of the Three Crusades (Curator General)
• National Gavel Society (Vice President)
• National Society Sons of the American Colonists (Governor General)
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (President General)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Governor, MS Branch)
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Deputy Genealogist General)
• Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy (Councilor)
• General Society of the War of 1812 (Public Relations General)
• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland, Inc. (President General)
• Order of Medieval Women of Consequence (3rd Vice President General)
• Descendants of Templar Knights (Co-Founder)
• Presidential Families of America (1st President General)
• National Society Sons of Colonial New England
• Military Order of the Crusades
• Sons of the Revolution
• Order of the Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
• National Society of Saints and Sinners
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
• The Order of the Crown in America
• General Society of Colonial Wars
• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire
• Order of Indian Wars in the United States
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
• First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• First Families of Massachusetts
• Descendants of the Knights of the Garter
• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims
• Order of the Descendants of the Justiciars

Publications

• Publications include numerous medical/zoological/scientific books, chapters and articles. 

Other Notes

• Through his gateway ancestors Reverend Peter Bulkeley, William Torrey and Audrey Barlow, all of Massachusetts, Michael is a member of over forty lineage societies and orders and has served as an officer to many of them. His pride and joy are assisting societies with designing their regalia and graphic and branding needs.
• Michael is a BSA-Eagle Scout and National Order of the Arrow-Vigil Honor member; he continues to volunteer in Scouting activities as well as other youth-based organizations and educational programs as he has for the past fifty years.

Michael’s interests besides genealogical research of family members includes: topical stamp and coin collecting of ancestors, places they occupied and events they participated in, Celtic and Medieval art/architecture/sculpture, international travel, participation in illustration, scientific and fine art societies.

Brenton Simons was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Elwyn Simons and Mary Hoyt Fitch. He attended private schools in Connecticut and Switzerland; graduated from Aiken Preparatory School, Aiken, SC; Hamden Hall Country Day School, Hamden, CT; Bachelor of Science, College of Communication, Boston University; Master’s Degree, School of Education, Boston University.

Brenton Simons has changed the face of nonprofit-based genealogy in America by bringing the best scholarship to millions of users for more than a decade as President and CEO of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005 to present ~ www.AmericanAncestors.org) anchor location of the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He has orchestrated an historic expansion of the organization ― the founding genealogical institution in America and a frequent partner to national hereditary societies ― it now serves almost 400,000 members and millions of online users in 139 countries with 1.4 billion records. An award-winning author, he has been featured on CNN, FOX, BBC, and PBS, as well as in The New York Times and elsewhere. His most recent book, Boston Beheld, was hailed as “the book Jane Austen might have written had she run into Dickens after his return from his Boston visit of 1842.” He has presented genealogies to or hosted benefits in honor of former UK Prime Minister Sir John Major KG; Pulitzer Prize-winning authors David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Hackett Fischer, Stacy Schiff, and Joseph J. Ellis; filmmaker Ken Burns; actress Dame Angela Lansbury; biographer HRH Princess Michael of Kent; and many others.  

Society Memberships

• New England Historic Genealogical Society (President & CEO)
• Society of the Cincinnati (CT) (Former Committee on Pretensions member)
• Society of Colonial Wars (MA & FL) (Assistant Genealogist MA)
• Society of Mayflower Descendants (MA) (Former Board of Assistants member)
• Sons of the Revolution (MA) (First Vice President MA)
• Society of the War of 1812 (MA) (Former President MA); currently Deputy Governor General MA)
• Order of Founders & Patriots (MA) (Historian)
• American Friends of St. George’s and Descendants of Knights of the Order of the Garter (Second Vice President)
• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America Board of Directors
• St. Nicholas Society of the City of New York (Member)
• The Order of the Crown of Charlemagne (Member)
• One Hundred Living Descendants of the Blood Royal (Member)
• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta (Member)
• Cloak & Dagger (Vice President General)
• Huguenot Society of America (Member)
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Member)
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Member)
• Son of a Witch Honorary (Member)

Chivalry and Heraldry

• The Venerable Order of Saint John, American Priory (Member)
• Order of Merit, The Royal House of Portugal (Knight Commander)
• Grant of Arms, College of Arms (2019) quartered with Hereditary Arms (1588), London
• Ex-officio, Committee on Heraldry, New England Historic Genealogical Society

Authorships

• Books include Boston Beheld (2008); Witches, Rakes, and Rogues (2005); The Art of Family (co-editor, 2002); The Langhornes of Langhorne Park (1997); and numerous articles, essays, and introductions.

Listed In (Publications)

• Who’s Who in America; Social Register (Advisory Committee and Consulting Editor)

Other Notes

Public office: Vice Chair, Plymouth 400th Anniversary State Commission, by appointment of His Excellency, Charles D. Baker, Governor of Massachusetts, 2019 to present; Commission member, Commission to Review the Seal and Motto of Massachusetts, by appointment of His Excellency, Charles D. Baker, Governor of Massachusetts, 2021 to present. 

Honors: The Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History, 2006; The Spirit of 1812 Award, The National Society United States Daughters of 1812, 2016; Award of Recognition, Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois, 2019.

Memberships: The New England Quarterly (Secretary of the Board of Directors); Plymouth 400 Inc. (Board of Directors); The Colonial Society of Massachusetts (former Council member); Massachusetts Historical Society (Fellow); American Antiquarian Society (elected Member); Boston Athenaeum (Proprietor); Somerset Club; Club of Odd Volumes, French Heritage Society (honorary). Episcopalian.

Michael Scott Swisher was born in Stillwater, Minnesota. He attended Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota. 

He has worked as the Director of the First State Bank & Trust since 1999, the Director of Universal Financial Services since 1991 and as the Director of the Valley Agencies, Inc., since 1991. He currently serves as their Chairman.

Memberships

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (past President, MN Society)
• General Society, Sons of the Revolution (past President, MN Society)
• General Society of the War of 1812 (past President, MN Society)
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General)
• Sons of Colonial New England (Honorary Governor General)
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution (Honorary Governor General)
• National Society Sons of American Colonists (Governor General)
• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Commander)
• National Gavel Society
• General Society of Colonial Wars 
• Order of Founders and Patriots of America
• Colonial Order of the Acorn
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Military Order of the Stars and Bars
• National Order of the Blue and Gray
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America
• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
• National Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne
• National Society of Americans of Royal Descent
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• Military Order of the Crusades
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta
• Descendants of Templar Knights
• Order of Three Crusades
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
• Order of the Norman Conquest
• National Guild of St. Margaret
• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva
• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen
• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families
• National Society of Saints and Sinners
• Hereditary Society of Teachers
• Order of the House of Wessex
• Order of Alba
• Order of the First Families of Maine
• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire
• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy

Chivalric

• Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
• Knight Commander, Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni
• Grand Cross, Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem

Civic/Charitable

• Chairman, Religion and Society Foundation
• Director, the Lakeview Hospital Foundation
• Secretary, the John Quincy Adams Foundation
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
• Helen Keller Sight Award, Minnesota Lions Eye Bank
• Member, Advisory Council of the Hereditary Society Community of the USA
• Kentucky Colonel

Social and fraternal

• University Club of Saint Paul, Minnesota
• University Club of San Francisco, California
•  The Arts Club of Washington, D.C.
•  St. John’s Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M., Stillwater, Minnesota
•  St. Paul Lodge No. 3, A.F, & A.M., St. Paul, Minnesota
•  Prometheus Lodge No. 851, F. & A.M., California
•  The Morgan Lodge No. 9816, E.C., Malvern, Worcestershire
•  York Rite Bodies, St. Paul & Minneapolis
•  Scottish Rite (32º), Valley of Minneapolis 
•  Stillwater, Minnesota Lions Club
•  Rolls Royce Owners’ Club
•  Morgan Sports Car Club

Listings  

• The Social Register, 1999 – present 
• Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2018              

Pamela Edwards Rouse Wright is the 46th President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, the second from Texas. A ninth-generation Georgian and a 40-year Texas resident, Pamela Wright is a multiple small business owner, community volunteer, philanthropist, wife, mother and grandmother. She and her husband are the co-founders and owners of a jewelry and luxury goods business in Houston. She has designed and created jewelry for First Ladies and wives of cabinet members, and her designs have been featured on a popular Netflix series. Members of Second Baptist Church, Pamela and Jack have two children and six grandchildren who are life members of the Children of the American Revolution.  They are very proud that their daughter-in-law was selected as the 2022 NSDAR National Outstanding Junior. 

Pamela graduated magna cum laude from Ouachita Baptist University, attended graduate school at the University of Arkansas and holds additional certification through the Gemological Institute of America and through the International Society of Appraisers.

Hereditary Society Awards

• NSDAR Texas Outstanding Junior 1993
• TXDAR Juniors Choice Chapter Regent 2000
• TXDAR Texas Honorary Junior for Life 2005
• TXDAR Texas Junior VIP Award 2009
• NSDAR Community Service Award
• NSDAR Women in the Arts Award
• NSDAR Women in American History Award
• SAR Martha Washington Medal 1997
• SAR Medal of Appreciation 2001
• SAR Bronze SAR-C.A.R. Medal 2004
• SAR Silver Good Citizenship Medal
• SAR Daughters of Liberty Medal
• Texas Genealogical College Hall of Fame 2017
• Farmers President National Medal with Bee

Community Service & Awards

• Commission of the Yellow Rose of Texas conferred by Texas Governor, 2022
• Houston Woman Magazine Cover Girl 2022, 2008
• Citizens for Animal Protection Hall of Fame 2020
• Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award for Jewelers 2019 and 2011
• Houston’s 25 Most Beautiful 2018
• Houston Treasure 2017
• Texas Genealogical College Hall of Fame 2017
• NPA National Community Outreach Award 2016
• Honorary CAP Gala Chair 2016
• Houston Children’s Charity Helping Hands Award 2016
• Breakthrough Woman 2014
• Houston Sweetheart 2013
• ABC-Channel 13 Woman of Distinction 2013
• STEM Role Model 2012
• Houston Woman Magazine 50 Most Influential Women 2012
• Houston Modern Luxury Dynamic Women of Houston 2021, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009
• Citizens for Animal Protection Cherished Companion 2010
• Better Business Bureau Winner of Distinction 2006-2021
• Houston Community Impact Award 2003
• Citizen of the Year 2002
• Citizens for Animal Protection Celebrity Pet Owner of the Year 2000
• Houston Junior Forum
• Better Business Bureau Board of Directors
• Better Business Bureau Education Foundation Board
• Green Team American Board of Directors
• University of St. Thomas Nursing Advisory Council
• Houston Children’s Charity Guild Life Member
• Citizens for Animal Protection Advisory Board
• International Society of Appraisers National Awards Chair
• Ouachita Baptist University Houston Alumni President, Chi Delta Alumni

Lynn Forney Young was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of the late Byron Parish Forney and Patricia O’Tyson. She is married to Steve Young and they enjoy their two children, and three grandchildren.

She attended Stephen F. Austin State University and earned a B.S. from the University of Houston. She is currently a co-owner of the family cattle business, San Andres Cattle Co., LLC.

Highlights of her term as President General, NSDAR (2013-2016) included celebrating the 125th anniversary of the founding of NSDAR, the first DAR Day of Service and achieving the Guinness World RecordTM for patriotism during the 125th Continental Congress. Further, the generous support of members established a permanent endowment fund for the preservation, restoration and conservation of the historic DAR headquarters near the White House.

Memberships

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter VIII)
• Daughters of the Republic of Texas
• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Honorary President General, Past Recording Secretary General, Honorary State Regent of Texas DAR, Honorary Chapter Regent of Tejas Chapter DAR, National Chair America 250! past National Chair Americanism Committee, former VAVS Volunteer, President Outstanding Junior Club, State Vice Regents Club, member Heritage Club, Founders Club, Sustaining Supporter, Established the Guardian Trust Endowment Fund
• Founders Fellowship (Organizing Historian General)
• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims (Organizing Member)
• Hereditary Society Community (Honorary Advisory Council member, Class of 2016)
• Jamestowne Society, Houston Colony
• National Gavel Society
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
• Texas Genealogical College (Co-Founder and Past President)
• National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons
• Children of the American Revolution (Past Senior State President, Past Vice President, South Central Region, Past Senior Society President, James Bates Society)
• National Society Descendants of American Farmers

Other Notes

Mrs. Young is active in her church, currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Stewards.

She served as Chair of the Milam County Historical Commission for four years and serves on the Executive Board of the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association.

Mrs. Young also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School.

Mrs. Young is one of sixteen private citizens appointed by the United States Congress to serve on the United States Semiquincentennial Commission (America 250). She serves on the executive board of America 250 and the America 250 Foundation. She also chairs the Governance Committee and serves on the Government Relations Committee. She is a frequent speaker on America 250.

Honors and Awards

• Delta Zeta Sorority Woman of the Year 2014
• Inspire Women Outstanding Community Leader 2007
• Sons of the American Revolution Martha Washington Medal, Daughters of Liberty Medal, Medal of Appreciation