The Library Foundation
Board of Directors - Biographies
Matthew Barzun - Mr. Barzun is the president of BrickPath, an Internet media company devoted to lifelong learning. He is the former executive vice president and chief strategy officer of CNET Networks, a publicly traded Internet media company. Mr. Barzun joined CNET in 1993 as its fourth employee, spending eight years at its San Francisco headquarters. While there, he launched and managed many of CNET’s websites, including Download.com. Mr. Barzun graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard College. Among his other charitable activities, he has volunteered with Public Radio Partnership and has served on the Cathedral Heritage Foundation (aka Festival of Faiths) board and the policy board of the Greater Louisville Project.
Monty L. Boyd - Mr. Boyd is the President and CEO of Whayne Supply Company, one of the oldest and largest Caterpillar, Inc. dealers in the U.S. Mr. Boyd serves as the President of the Kentucky Equipment Distributors, is on the Board of Directors of the Associated Equipment Distributors, Kentucky Association of Highway Contractors, Kentucky Coal Association, Kentuckians for Better Transportation, Boy Scouts, and is a member of the Louisville Rotary Club. He is an active member of the Middletown United Methodist Church. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska and a MBA from the University of Louisville.
J. McCauley Brown - Mr. Brown serves as Vice President, Director of Business Services at Brown-Forman Beverage. Before taking this position in October 2002, his experience was focused in sales and marketing roles, including Brand Director of various brands and Regional Director over 24 states. He has served as an advisor to the Cathedral Heritage Foundation, on the Board of Overseers for Channel 15, and on the board of Stage One. He currently serves on the boards of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate Association) and The Filson Club Historical Society, and is on the Kentucky Historical Society executive committee. He holds an MBA from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in business from Georgetown University.
Craig Buthod - Mr. Buthod has directed the Louisville Free Public Library since 1998. Prior to his tenure at Louisville, he served six years as a senior executive for the Seattle Public Library and eighteen years at the public library in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He earned his degree in librarianship at the University of Denver and studied public administration at the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Buthod serves on the board of the Americans for Libraries Council in New York and is past chair of the Arts and Cultural Attractions Council of Louisville.
H. Scott Davis, Jr. - Mr. Davis, a trustee of the Mildred V. Horn Foundation, is a former banker and serves as the chairman of the Library Foundation’s finance committee. He serves on the Community Foundation of Louisville and Metro United Way of Louisville’s finance and investments committee. Mr. Davis' other community involvement includes serving on the board of directors of the Southeastern Council of Foundations, and on the investment committee for The Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Scott W. Dolson - Mr. Dolson is a member of the legal firm Frost Brown Todd, LLC and serves as the legal counsel for the Library Foundation. His practice focuses on busienss and tax issues for emerging and closely-held businesses. He also a director of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.
Jane Godchaux Emke - Ms. Emke has served as director of development for Bridgehaven and for Cedar Lake Lodge, Inc. Ms. Emke is president of Library Lovers PAC (LLPAC) whose purpose is to build financial support for the Louisville Free Public Library from our elected officials and from the general public.
Stephen C. Gault - Mr. Gault is the president of the Stephen C. Gault Company a firm specializing in the sale, lease and development of industrial real estate. He serves on several boards, including The Morton Center, Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services, and The College of Wooster.
C. Edward Glasscock - Mr. Glasscock is a co-managing partner of Frost Brown Todd LLC. He is listed and ranked in Chambers and Partners, Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyer,(2005-2007) as the number one corporate merger and acquisition lawyer in Kentucky. Mr. Glasscock received the Gold Cup Award for Outstanding Community leadership, Greater Louisville, Inc. in 2003, and was voted one of the three most influential people in Louisville in Louisville Magazine’s 2006 “Power 50” survey. He is currently chairman of Kentucky Center for the Arts and chairman of the board of directors for Leadership Louisville. Mr. Glasscock has served as board chairman for the Fund for the Arts, the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, and Greater Louisville, Inc.
Mary H. Griffith - Mary H. Griffith was named vice chairman of Kentucky banking for National City Bank in 2001. In this role, she has primary responsibility for the positioning, continuity and leadership of the bank’s commitment to the community. Ms. Griffith is charged with bringing the company’s new customer champion initiative to life at the bank, and is actively engaged in selling National City’s services in the wealth management, charitable and endowment areas. In April 2006 Ms. Griffith received National City’s Lifetime Achievement Award, its first female recipient and one of only three presented in the award’s history.
Ms. Griffith joined National City in 1990 as vice president and director of Corporate Communications. She had previously served as senior vice president and director of public relations at First Kentucky National Corporation, which National City acquired in 1988. At First Kentucky, she was responsible for media relations, investor and employee communications and the First Kentucky National Charitable Foundation. Ms. Griffith was named senior vice president of marketing communications for National City Corporation in 1992.
Ms. Griffith’s charitable activities include: the board of trustees, Centre College; the board of trustees, chair, investment committee, member executive committee, Bellarmine University; chairman, board of directors, Downtown Development Corp.; chairman, board of directors, Kentucky Center for the Arts Endowment; chairman, board of directors, Kentuckiana Works; board of directors and executive committee, Metro United Way; board of directors, Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, Inc.; and the board of directors, Teach Kentucky. Ms. Griffith currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors, for the Louisville Free Public Library Foundation.
A Louisville native, Ms. Griffith has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Centre College, and was honored in 1991 with the College’s Louisville Distinguished Alumni Award.
W. Frank Harshaw - Mr. Harshaw is President and Owner of Harshaw Trane, a heating and air conditioning firm located in Bluegrass Industrial Park. He has served on the board of the Louisville Community Foundation, and is a graduate from the University of Florida with a Masters in Engineering. He has also completed post-masters studies as well.
Roberta M. Henderson - Ms. Henderson is a civic leader who has served on numerous boards, including leadership positions with Planned Parenthood and Scenic America. She is past President of the Glenview Garden Club.
Henry V. Heuser, Jr. - Mr. Heuser is chairman of the Henry Vogt Machine Company; Unistar, LLC, a national group purchasing company; and Grateful Greens, Inc., a hydroponics greenhouse growing lettuces, herbs, and edible flowers. He is also president of the Henry Vogt Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Heuser has served on numerous cultural and philanthropic boards, including the I. W. Bernheim Foundation (Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest), Community Foundation of Louisville, Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Inc., Filson Historical Society, Operation Brightside, Speed Art Museum, Metro YMCA, and Boy Scouts of America. He is a founding director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center and Gilda’s Club of Louisville. Mr. Heuser is serving on the board of the Housing Partnership, Inc, Jefferson County Public Education Foundation, Memorial Auditorium Commission, Jewish–St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation, and University of Louisville Board of Overseers.
Mr. Heuser received the Jefferson County Public School’s Champions for Children Award in 2000, the Fredrick Law Olmsted Distinguished Award for Leadership in 2000, The Housing Partnership, Inc. annual Lampton Award for Outstanding Service in Affordable Housing in 2003, and the Joseph W. Kelly Award from the Kentucky State Board of Education in 2006.
Rae Horton - Mrs. Horton is a retired marketing professional and the co-owner of Beauchance Farm. She is past president of the Friends of the Library and currently serves as chairman of the Louisville Free Public Library Advisory Commission. She has served on a number of local philanthropic boards.
Alfred S. Joseph III - Fred Joseph is a lawyer with the firm of Stites & Harbison, specializing in real estate law. His public service includes attorney advisor in the Office of General Counsel, Office of Economic Opportunity, and Assistant Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Mr. Joseph’s professional activities include, among others, service on the board of directors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Louisville Bar Association. He was co-author of the article "Certificates of Insurance: The Illusion of Protection" for Probate & Property magazine, which was awarded the 1995 Excellence in Writing Award by the magazine, as well as numerous other articles relating to real property and insurance. Mr. Joseph’s current civic activities include serving on the Downtown Development Corporation Board of Directors. He has served on numerous private agency boards and as President of the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville and the Legal Aid Society of Louisville, Inc. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan Law School.
Robert W. Lanum - Mr. Lanum is an attorney with Stites and Harbison, PLLC. He is active with the Louisville Metro Donors Forum, Junior Achievement, and One Southern Indiana. Mr. Lanum is a director of the Regional Leadership Coalition and the I.U. Foundation. He is also president of the Paul Ogle Foundation, Inc. and an advisor for the Jeffersonville Carnegie Library Foundation.
Carolyn Neustadt - Mrs. Neustadt is a retired fund raising executive. She is a member of the board of Elderserve and on the board of the Association of the Louisville Orchestra. She also serves on the endowment committee of the Foundation for Planned Giving of the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville.
Steve Poe - Mr. Poe is CEO of Poe Companies, LLC which takes an entrepreneurial approach to development, conquering complex projects, and creating strategic partnerships. Mr. Poe is very active in local charities and civic groups. He is a trustee of the University of Louisville, chairman of the capital campaign for Home of the Innocents, a board member and past president of the Louisville Apartment Association, and an active board member of Middletown Christian Church. He was recently awarded the Kentucky 10th Annual Governor’s Economic Leadership Award.
Marcia L. Roth - Ms. Roth is the executive director of the Mary Byron Foundation. She was the first director of the Jefferson County, KY Office for Women and helped implement the first victim notification program in the country. Ms. Roth has served on the board of numerous community organizations including the Jewish Community Federation, Leadership Louisville, the Waterfront Development Corporation, and Metro United Way. She has served on all state committees organized to address violence against women, and speaks both locally and nationally on the issue of domestic violence.
Nicholas X. Simon - Mr. Simon is President and CEO of Publishers Printing Company. He serves on the board of directors of Stockyards Bank and is active in support of the American Heart Association and the Ursuline Campus Schools.
Tad Thomas - Mr. Thomas practices law in Louisville and is an active member of the American Association for Justice, the Kentucky Justice Association, and the American, Kentucky, and Louisville Bar Associations. He is currently the president of the Friends of the Library.
Orme Wilson III - Mr. Wilson is the president and owner of Gobi Corporation and former owner of Giant Graphics Inc. in Louisville and Digital Printing Inc. in Madison, Indiana. Additionally, he is a partner in Westfield Farm Limited Partnership in Virginia and an owner of Gramercy Farm, also in Virginia. Mr. Wilson is a director and vice president of the Filson Historical Society, serves as treasurer and secretary of River Fields Inc, and is a director and the immediate-past president of both the Kentucky Tennis Association and the Raise a Racquet Foundation for Kentucky Tennis.
