About Us

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Jessica is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy. She has served as a trustee of leading national and international nonprofits, including Harvard University, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Century Foundation, the Brookings Institution, among others. She has published widely in print media and foreign policy and scientific journals and has co-authored and co-edited three books. 

Bob is a longtime Middleburg resident and the executive director of Windy Hill Foundation, a local nonprofit that works to provide safe, decent and affordable housing to low and lower-income individuals, families, older adults and adults with disabilities in Fauquier and Loudoun Counties. He is a retired CPA and a former partner at the accounting firm of Yount & Hyde Barbour. Bob has served on the boards of the Windy Hill Foundation, Piedmont Child Development Center, Middleburg Community Center, Wakefield School, the vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church (Upperville), the Loudoun County Commission on Aging and currently serves on the Town of Middleburg Strategic Finance Committee.  

Georgia is an attorney in private practice in The Plains, Virginia. In 1987 she became the first women elected to the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors. Governor Wilder appointed her to the State Water Control Board and to a legislative advisory committee on pollution prevention. As a private attorney Georgia has worked with clients to preserve thousands of Piedmont acres as agricultural and forestall lands, primarily through the use of conservation easements and agricultural / forestall districts. Over the years Georgia has served on the boards of The Partnership for Warrenton, Friends of the Library (Fauquier), the Architectural Review Board of The Plains, Virginia, among others.  

Harry Atherton graduated with a history degree from Harvard University in 1967 and subsequently served two years in the United States Army from 1968 – 1970. He was stationed in Vietnam for one year. After returning home from his service, he pursued his Juris Doctorate from Columbus School of Law which he earned in 1974. In addition to practicing law, Harry was a full-time farmer from 1977 until 2018. He represented the Marshall District on the Fauquier County Planning Commission from 1981 – 2000 and the Board of Supervisors from 2000 – 2008. He was a trustee of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation from 2007 – 2011 and on the Middleburg Bank Board of Directors from 2007 -2019.  

In 1981, Landon Butler co-founded the Multi-Employer Property Trust, a large commercial real estate commingled fund, and he served as President of the investor relations firm Landon Butler and Company until his retirement in 2010. He is a long-time Board member of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and served as its Chair for ten years. He is also on the Boards of The National Sporting Library and Museum and of Integrity Initiatives International. From 1977-1981, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Carter Administration, where he facilitated communications across a broad array of Administration-wide task forces. He and his wife, Carol, are retired on a farm near Rectortown, Virginia. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and Harvard Business School, and served as an officer in the US Marine Corps.

Bo is a longtime resident of Fauquier Times and worked for 32 years at The Washington Post Company, including as publisher and CEO of The Washington Post and as vice chairman of the parent company. He left at the end of 2011 to become president and CEO of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, producer of the PBS “NewsHour,” until the enterprise was donated to WETA in 2014. He has served various boards including  the board of the Associated Press, the Newspaper Association of America, the Meyer Foundation, the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, and the Cooperative Assistance Fund. 

Mike is a life-long resident of Fauquier County, with the exception of two years in the US Army in Germany. He grew up reading the Fauquier Times and feels strongly that a healthy, objective local paper is critical to the well-being of the community. He has served on several local boards, including the Piedmont Environmental Council, the Hill School of Middleburg, The Blue Ridge Wildlife Center and the Middleburg Library Advisory Board.

A resident of Fauquier County, Mark joined the board in May 2020. Mark is President of Larkspur Management, an investment and finance company. He has served in the U.S. Army and had a career in investment management and finance. Mark serves on boards of corporations, universities, and foundations including: The Piedmont Foundation and the Piedmont Environmental Council, EARTH University in Costa Rica, and Shenandoah University.

Alex Orfinger is a resident of Fauquier County.  He serves as the long-time publisher of the Washington Business Journal, the primary source for local business news and intelligence in the greater Washington region.  He serves as one of the managers of the Fauquier and Prince Williams Times.  In addition to his role on the board of the Piedmont Journalism Foundation, he currently serves as board chair of Jubilee Housing which provides deeply affordable housing in Washington DC and is the chair-elect of Leadership Greater Washington, the region’s premier leadership incubator.

Trevor Potter is a longtime resident of Fauquier County. His professional career has largely been in Washington DC, where his government service as a lawyer included the Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission, and Commissioner and Chairman of the Federal Election Commission. In private practice, he served as General Counsel of John McCain’s two Presidential campaigns, and a drafter of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law. He is currently President of the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) , a national nonpartisan non-profit organization focused on improving American democracy through law. He was part of the group of local citizens who purchased the Fauquier and Prince William Times newspapers in 2016 year to preserve their community service in the face of severe business challenges for local papers and was on the board of those newspapers through their purchase by Piedmont Journalism Foundation in 2019year.

Dana Priest is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post where she has worked on national security issues for more than three decades. She is also the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland. Dana is a contributor to PBS Frontline and has authored two best-selling, award-winning books: Top Secret America: The Rise of the Security State, Little, Brown & Co. 2011, and The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military, W.W. Norton, 2003. She has lived in Fauquier for the past decade where she enjoys gardening, hiking, riding, exploring unknown roads, and all other things Mother Nature offers.