Board Members

Showing 14 active board members (maximum 14)

Name	Role	End Date
Simone Cummings	Member	12/31/2027
Laura Cohen	Member	12/31/2025
Judith Abrams	Member	12/25/2025
Valerie Bell	Member	12/31/2024
Vickie Henson	Member	12/31/2024
Carmen Dence	Non-Voting	09/30/2024
Thomas Grady	Non-Voting	09/30/2024
Gilberto Pinela	Non-Voting	09/30/2024
Jason Wilson	Non-Voting	09/30/2024
Jeremy Colbert	Member	12/31/2023 Serving Beyond Term
Cynthia Crim	Member	12/31/2023 Serving Beyond Term
Frank Hamsher	Chairperson	12/31/2023 Serving Beyond Term
Elizabeth McNulty	Member	12/31/2022 Serving Beyond Term
John Nations	Member	12/31/2022 Serving Beyond Term

Authorizing Legislation

Rev. Mo. Stat. 184.358 (1992).

Board Duties and Purpose

Each respective sub-district is hereby empowered to own, hold, control, lease, acquire by donation, gift or bequest, purchase, contract, lease, sell, any and all rights in land, buildings, improvements, furnishings, displays, exhibits and programs and any and all other real, personal or mixed property, or to contract with other persons to provide for any and all services for the purposes of the sub-district.

Upon the creation of a Missouri history museum sub-district as provided for in section 184.353, all buildings, property, and facilities which are wholly publicly owned and which are then in the care and custody of the Missouri history museum sub-district or of any person providing Missouri history services to the Missouri history museum sub-district by contract shall become the property of and vest in the Missouri history museum sub-district on the date such sub-district shall be established as provided in section 184.353.

Any obligations, duties, rights, privileges of whatever description pertaining to or relating to the maintenance, operation, construction, design, or affairs of such buildings, property, and facilities shall be assumed by the Missouri history museum sub-district.

Member Requirements

The Missouri History Museum Subdistrict established as provided in section 184.353 shall be governed by a commission consisting of ten (10) members to serve without compensation for a term of 4-years except as provided in this section.

Five (5) commissioners and their respective successors of each commission shall be appointed by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter county and five (5) commissioners and their respective successors of each commission shall be appointed by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter city from persons nominated and submitted by the respective then existing commissions.

The authority to appoint shall include the authority to reject and in such case an additional nominee or nominees shall be submitted. The commissioners shall hold office for a term of 4-years.

The commission shall nominate a person to replace members of the class whose terms are to expire or to fill a vacancy. Commissioners who have been appointed by the chief executive officer of the city shall be residents and registered voters of the city during their tenure in office and commissioners who have been appointed by the chief executive officer of the county shall be residents and registered voters of the county during their tenure in office.

There shall also be four (4) nonvoting advisory members. Two of the advisory members shall be selected by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter county and two of the advisory members shall be selected by the chief executive officer of the constitutional charter city, with such 4-year terms subject to the advice and consent of the respective legislative bodies of the city (Board of Aldermen) or county in which the proposed member resides.