CBHF Board of Directors
Laura Graham, Co-Chairman
Ms. Graham is Chief Operating Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation and is Chief of Staff to President Clinton. A long time advisor to the President and one of his administration's youngest deputy assistants, Ms. Graham oversaw the President's efforts following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia. Directly involved in all aspects of the Clinton Foundation and President Clinton's personal humanitarian efforts, Ms. Graham has travelled to more than fifty foreign countries with and on President Clinton's behalf. Ms. Graham is a graduate of Wagner College.
Josh Bolten, Co-Chairman
Mr. Bolten is the Weinberg Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Previously, Mr. Bolten served as Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush and Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He also served as international trade counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, general counsel to the U.S. Trade Representative and as deputy assistant for legislative affairs to President George H.W. Bush.
Mr. Bolten's experience in the nonprofit organization world includes serving on the Boards of Directors of both the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the ONE Campaign. In the private sector, he was Executive Director for Legal and Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs International in London. Mr. Bolten earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a law degree from Stanford University.
Henrietta Holsman Fore
Ms. Fore serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Holsman International, an investment and management company. She was the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Director of U.S. Foreign Service under President George W. Bush. Prior to her appointment at USAID, Ms. Fore was the Undersecretary of State for Management and the Director of the United States Mint.
Ms. Fore is a trustee of the Center of Strategic and International Studies, the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society, the International Youth Foundation, and the Women's Foreign Policy Group. She serves on the Leadership Council of the Initiative for Global Development, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Development Finance. She is co-Chair of Women Corporate Directors, and co-Chair of the Global Heritage Fund Diplomatic Council.
She is a member of the Economic Club of New York, Council on Foreign Relations, Committee of 200, International Women's Forum, Wellesley Business Leadership Council, YPO/WPO, and Chief Executives Organization. She has served on the Corporate Boards of the Dexter Corporation and HSB Group Inc.
Ms. Fore earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.P.A. from the University of Northern Colorado. She has also studied international politics at Oxford University.
Alexis Herman
Ms. Herman has served in a variety of governmental and nonprofit positions. President Clinton appointed her to be the first African-American Secretary of Labor. Prior to her appointment as Secretary of Labor, she was Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. Secretary Herman was the White House representative to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Her federal government service dates back to the Carter Administration for which she was Director of the Labor Department's Women's Bureau.
Through her work as Co-Chair of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, Secretary Herman has hands on experience managing funds established to ameliorate the consequences of natural disasters. Secretary Herman also has substantial experience on the boards of directors and advisory committees of for profit and nonprofit corporations. Currently, she chairs the Toyota Diversity Advisory Board and the Sodexho Business Advisory Board. She serves on the boards of directors of Entergy, Inc., The Coca Cola Company, Cummins Inc., and MGM Mirage. She serves as a trustee for the National Urban League and the Social Action for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Secretary Herman is currently Chief Executive Officer of New Ventures, LLC. She earned a B.A. degree from Xavier University and is the recipient of more than twenty honorary doctorate degrees.
William H. Frist, Sr.
Dr. Frist served two terms as a United States Senator from Tennessee. He was elected by his fellow Senators to serve as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007, having served fewer total years in Congress than any person chosen to lead that body in history. Prior to being elected to the Senate, Dr. Frist was a practicing heart and lung transplant surgeon. He is the founder and Director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center and is board certified in both general and heart surgery.
Dr. Frist is a Professor of Business and Medicine at Vanderbilt University. He chairs Hope Through Healing Hands, which focuses on health and education around the world. He is a partner at the private equity firm of Cressey & Company. Dr. Frist is a director of URS Corp., an engineering, construction and technical services firm. Dr. Frist currently serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America, which has directly linked better health to education and serves on the Board of Directors for the Millenium Challenge Corporation.
Dr. Frist was the 2007-2008 Frederick H. Schultz Professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Dr. Frist is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School.
Bruce Lindsey
Mr. Lindsey currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation. He has been a longtime advisor to former President Bill Clinton and served in the Clinton Administration as an Assistant to the President, Deputy White House Counsel, and Senior Advisor. Mr. Lindsey also was Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel where he supervised the selection and approval of political appointees in the Cabinet departments and to Presidential boards and commissions.
Mr. Lindsey earned his B.A. from Rhodes College and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School. He is currently of counsel to Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, a Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm.
Sean P. Clancy, Secretary and Legal Counsel
Mr. Clancy advises the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund on a range of legal issues relating to its initial formation and ongoing operations. Sean is a partner at the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP, practicing primarily in the areas of federal income taxation and nonprofit organization law. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of and outside legal counsel to the Bush Clinton Katrina Fund.
Sean earned an LL.M from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from the Widener University School of Law and a B.A. from Lehigh University. He was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University School of Law in the Master of Laws program.
