Feb. 19, 2002
Board Names New Member
Allbritton Joins Trustees
The George Washington University
Board of Trustees announced the addition of Robert Lewis Allbritton
to the Board at its Feb. 9 meeting. Allbritton, who received his BA
in government in 1992 from Wesleyan University, serves as the chair
of the board and the chief executive officer for Riggs National Corporation,
a multi-bank holding company based in Washington, DC; chair of the board
of Riggs Bank; and vice chair and executive vice president of Perpetual
Corporation, the Allbritton family wholly-owned financial holding company
and the parent company of Allbritton Communications Company.
A native of Houston, Allbritton
also serves as chair of the board and the chief executive officer of
Allbritton Communications Company, a communications firm operating seven
ABC-affiliated stations in Washington, DC; Little Rock, AR; Tulsa, OK;
Lynchburg, VA; Charleston, SC; Harrisburg, PA; and Birmingham, AL.
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