ByGeorge! Online

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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