Leadership
Board of Directors
President
Mr. Frank S. Childress
Immediate Past President
Mr. Dennis M. Reagan (P)
Vice Presidents
Ms. Mariquita L. Barbieri
Mrs. Laurie Haffenreffer
Mrs. Joanne P. Knight (L)
Mrs. Kerrin M. Kowach
Mr. Nicholas M. Lampi
Mr. Dave J. Schepers (P)
Mr. William B. Sheldon (L)
Mr. James M. Snowden, Jr. (L)
Mr. W. Bruce Springer (L)
Mr. Samir A. Tayob
Mr. Jeffrey R. Tucker
Treasurer
Mrs. Jane-Ellis Griggs
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Garrick R. Hamilton
Secretary
Ms. Laurie W. Miller (L)
Assistant Secretary
Mrs. Amy R. Tighe (nonvoting)
Executive Director and Assistant Secretary
Dr. Heather Grantham (nonvoting)
Members
Dr. Claudio F. Abreu
Mrs. Christi Alexander
Mr. John R. Arenberg
Mr. Theodore M. Armstrong (L, P)
Mrs. Virginia J. Browning (H, L)
Dr. Craig A. Buchman (H)
Mr. Robert R. Campbell, Jr.
Mr. Robert G. Clark (L, P)
Mr. Mark S. Cochran
Mr. Robert Crumpton
Mr. C. Baker Cunningham (P)
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Dorr
Mr. Benjamin F. Edwards, IV
Mrs. Martha Fleischmann
Mrs. Linda L. Goldstein
Dr. Sheryl Hanawalt
Ms. Robin A. Hattori
Mr. Michael J. Higginbotham
Dr. Thomas P. Horejes, IV (H)
Ms. Antonnette M. Jackson
Mrs. Carrie L. Johnson (P)
Dr. Richard S. Kurz
Mr. Michael D. Laycob
Mrs. Karen S. Leebolt
Mrs. Noël H. Mangano
Mr. Philip Marshall
Mr. Stephen W. McMillan
Mrs. Bethany Meisinger
Mr. Scott D. Monette (P)
Mr. Brandon W. Neuschafer
Mrs. Carolyn P. Rayner
Mrs. Shelby A. Reneski
Mr. Hugh Scott, III (L, P)
Dr. James W. Seeser
Mr. Daniel J. Sherman
Mr. Eric M. Stisser
Mr. Eugene M. Toombs, IV
Mrs. Anabeth Weil
Mr. John D. Weil (L)
Mr. William C. Weir
CID Parent Representative
Mrs. Patrice Howard
CID Staff Representative
Dr. Johanna Lowell
(H) Honorary Member
(L) Life Member
(P) Past President
President
Frank Childress
Fifteen-year veteran CID board member Frank Childress became president of the CID board of directors in January 2025, after serving as one of the vice presidents for many years. Currently a director at Oyster Consulting, he began his career at A.G. Edwards in 1983 and later became its director of Nasdaq Trading. His extensive industry experience includes serving as the managing director of Capital Markets Trading and Equity Services at Wells Fargo Advisors and predecessor companies for more than 36 years.
Childress joined the CID board in 2010 upon the recommendation of his uncle, 1954 CID school graduate and current board member Bill Sheldon. Frank’s grandmother, Lillian Bixby Sheldon, great uncle, Fielding Childress, and his great-grandfather, L.Wade Childress, also served on the CID board. L. Wade was a good friend of CID founder Max Goldstein. We’re grateful for Childress continuing his family’s legacy of service and leadership!
CID EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Heather Grantham, PhD
Dr. Heather Grantham is the former co-director of Washington University School of Medicine’s Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS), where she also served as director of deaf education. She has worked as a teacher of the deaf, authored numerous publications and presented extensively on improving listening and spoken language education for children who are deaf and hard of hearing.