Janet Bullinger, Vice President
Palisades

Janet was one of the original organizers of Palisades Village. She is a native of a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and arrived in Washington, DC, in 1965. She has lived in the Palisades since 1976 and formerly worked as a legal assistant in law firms and then part-time until retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court Reporter's Office. Currently she is a docent at the U.S. Supreme Court, a volunteer at Sibley Hospital, and the treasurer of the Widowed Persons Outreach Service through Sibley Seniors. She is also actively involved with a lawyers' wives group on a local and national level. For fun and exercise she enjoys walking her Tibetan terrier, Mickey Mouse, through the streets and pathways of the Palisades. Her other interests include reading, gardening, and needlepoint.

Mary Jo (Jody) McPherson, Secretary/Assistant Treasurer
Palisades

Jody was an original organizer of Palisades Village. She moved to the Palisades in 1966. She was born in Indiana and grew up and graduated from college in Ohio. Jody was Key School PTA co-president the year parents and teachers combined the Six Schools complex and served as president of the PTA the following year. She is retired from the Air Line Pilots Association, where she worked on the magazine staff since 1977. She is an active member of her church and has produced the church's monthly newsletter since 1979.  In 2010, her volunteer work for Palisades Village led to her recognition as a Super Senior of the Year from Iona Senior Services. Jody has three children, three grandsons, and a granddaughter. Jody has lived in the Palisades house she is trying to remain in since December 1970.

George Farr
Retired, National Endowment for the Humanities
Palisades

As a director of the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), George Farr created and administered a series of federal grant programs that helped preserve and ensure access to important cultural holdings in the nation’s libraries, archives, and museums. He also established funding categories for the support of major encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, databases and other digital resources of significance to the humanities. In 2005, the Society of American Archivists honored George’s “distinguished career” at NEH by giving him its J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award, “in recognition of his groundbreaking work and its national impact on the preservation and access of archival and library materials.”

He and his wife, author and literary critic Judith Farr, moved to the Palisades in 1997, after living in the Washington area for over twenty years. George was a member of the Senior Executive Service and served as the Deputy Chairman of NEH in 1999-2000. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in English from Yale University.

Charles Lanman
Retired, Trust officer
Foxhall Village

Charlie Lanman, a native Washingtonian and independent consultant, is a retired manager of the trust department at Burke & Herbert Bank in Old Town. A member of the DC Bar Association, he has served as a director of the Washington, DC Estate Planning Council, and on the boards of the Montgomery Hospice Foundation in the 1980s, and Iona Senior Services in the 1990s. He also participated in a group that provided advice on planned giving to Suburban Hospital for several years in the early 1990s.

After graduating from school in the District, he spent two years in college and two years on active duty in the US Navy, before returning to DC to complete his undergraduate education at George Washington University. He then received his J.D. from George Mason School of Law before beginning his Trust profession.  Charlie is married with two children. In addition to volunteering for Palisades Village, he is active in the Rotary Club of Alexandria. His hobbies include cycling, golf and reading, and he provides bicycle maintenance and repair from his garage.

Andy Mollison
Retired, Cox Enterprises
Palisades

Andy has just stepped down as President of Palisades Village, a position which he held for five years.  He and his wife Char have lived for over thirty years in their Sears bungalow, which they share with their cats and books. In September 2007 Andy retired from freelance education writing for magazines and nonprofit organizations, and they joined Palisades Village. Before that, he was a political reporter and editor for thirty-one years for the Washington Bureau of the Cox Newspapers chain. Prior to that he was a reporter for Newsday and The Detroit Free Press, and news editor of The Suburban Record in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Andy has held leadership positions with several professional organizations, including the National Press Club, where he is a former board chairman and president, and the Washington Press Club Foundation, where as a board member he raised funds for and chaired the executive committee of its project for recording the life stories of women journalists. He is a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He and Char are members of the Palisades Citizens Association and supporters of the Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place. Andy is also a volunteer with the MacArthur Beautification Group.

Arne Paulson
Retired, Inter-American Development Bank
Foxhall Village

A native of Washington DC, Arne moved to Foxhall Village in 1956 and still lives in the family home bought by his parents in 1961. He is a graduate of Sidwell Friends School, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he obtained a Master’s Degree in 1976. Professionally, Arne pursued a career in international development, working as an economist in a number of international organizations, including the World Bank, UNCTAD (Geneva), the International Energy Agency (Paris), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), from which he retired in 2007. Arne has been active in community service work, including participating as a past Board member and Vice President of the Foxhall Community Citizens Association. Currently, Arne is on the Board of Directors of the Association of Retirees of the IDB, and the Friends Meeting of Washington. Arne and his wife Sara have been active members of Palisades Village, and are credited with developing Palisades Village’s “associate member” category, which has successfully increased the association’s membership and financial base.

Judith Shepard Rosenfeld
Retired Journalist
Palisades

Judy was one of the pioneer organizers of Palisades Village.  She was born in New Jersey and has lived in Washington since 1972, and in the Palisades since 1984.  She worked as a reporter and married a fellow journalist in 1947, and they lived overseas on foreign assignments where all of their three children were born.  Judy was a founder and later President of the Institute for Property Assessment Studies, a watchdog nonprofit that published an annual handbook on appealing DC property assessments, helped applicants appearing before city appeals boards, and worked to improve the system governing residential assessments. As a freelance writer, Judy authored a travel book and many feature stories.

Benjamin M. Rowland
Independent Consultant
Palisades

Ben moved to the Palisades 23 years ago from New York City with his wife Julia and two children.  Ben has a B.A. from Yale and M.A. and PhD degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.  Before moving to Washington he spent 15 years as an investment banker for two major Wall St. firms, both now defunct.  From 1989-1995 he was part of the founding management team of the Inter-American Investment Corp., the private-sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank.  From 1995 until his retirement in 2001, he managed the Latin American and Caribbean   program of the World Bank Group’s Foreign Investment Advisory Service, FIAS.  After consulting for several years, Ben retired “for real” in 2009.  He currently divides his time between writing and painting and trying to keep fit.  One of his books, a collection of essays on Charles de Gaulle, was published in 2012.

Elizabeth Schueler
Director, World Wildlife Fund
Palisades

Elizabeth “Lizzie” joined the Board in December, 2012. She lived in the Palisades from 2000-2003, and recently moved back in 2010.  She has been at the WWF since 2008, and beforehand was with Microsoft, based in Istanbul and then in Redmond, WA where she led two different Corporate Social Responsibility Programs for the company, globally.  Lizzie also has worked for USAID, Waste Management International and the United Nations Environment Program, based in Nairobi.  She is a native Bostonian, and holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.A.L.D. from Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.   

Gerry Slater
Retired, Broadcasting Executive
Palisades

Gerry Slater, a retired broadcasting executive, joined the Palisades Village Board in April 2012.  He has lived in the Palisades since 1987.  Before serving as Executive Vice President of WETA-TV and WETA-FM from 1975 to 1989, Gerry was one of the founders and the first Chief Operating Officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).  Prior to that, Gerry was a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation.  He was a Network Supervisor and Manager of the Production Supervisors at CBS News.  After his career in public and commercial broadcasting, Gerry was President of Rock Creek Productions.   

A graduate of New York University, he has also served on the boards of City Lights School, the American Association of Suicidology, and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. He is married to psychologist and artist Halcy Bohen.

Art Watson
Retired, Department of Commerce
Palisades

Art recently retired from the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he worked as an attorney in the area of international trade and investment. His family’s move to the Palisades in 1983 was prompted by the imminent birth of his second daughter. As he and his family put down roots in the neighborhood, Art got involved with the Palisades Citizens Association, eventually serving as President, and later as President of the Palisades Community Fund. He currently is editor of the PCA newsletter, The Palisades News.

Art recalls helping his parents move into a retirement facility. “It’s perfect for them,” he says, “but Carol and I knew right away that it was not the situation for us. We want to stay right where we are in our own little house, in the middle of this wonderful neighborhood.” He holds a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Stanford University School of Law. His awards include his selection as Department of Commerce Attorney of the Year in 2005.

Judy Watson
Retired, nurse and educator

Judy Watson moved to the Palisades initially in 1960 before her husband’s foreign service assignments took them overseas.  They have been back since 1986.  Judy, an active Palisades Village volunteer, and co-chair of our fundraising fiesta in March 2011, was elected to the Board of Directors in June 2011.

Her professional work as a nurse in Washington included two years as a pediatric intensive care nurse at Sibley Hospital, and five years with a private medical practice, offering screening, prenatal and postnatal classes, and well-baby care. Between 1989 and 2004, she used her Portuguese and Spanish in her work for the Council of the Americas, the Group of Fifty of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, as executive director, the United States-Spain Council.  When she was overseas, she trained pediatric nurses in the Dominican Republic, worked in a family planning clinic in Brazil, and ran a pre-school in Bolivia. In Colombia, she taught pre-school and cared in her home, one at a time, for failure-to-thrive babies who later were adopted in Sweden.

A former executive director of the Vice President’s Residence Foundation, she also helps raise funds for the Post Classical Ensemble and serves on the board of The Family Place in Columbia Heights.  Judy and Alex have two children.