PATRICIA A. RICHARDS has been chosen as chair-elect by the League of American Orchestras Board of Directors. She will assume the position of chair in June 2014, succeeding current Chair LOWELL J. NOTEBOOM, and will hold it for a one-year term, until June 2015. League President and CEO Jesse Rosen said, “Pat has an extraordinary breadth of nonprofit leadership experience, and I’m grateful for her stepping up to this new role at the League.” Richards has been a member of the League Board since 2008, and was most recently vice chair; she also chairs the League Board’s Development Committee. Since 2005 Richards has served as chair of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees. She was named #1 of “Utah’s Top 25 Cultural Power Brokers” by The Salt Lake Tribune, and in 2013 received the National Opera Trustee Recognition Award from Opera America and the Governor’s Leadership in the Arts Award from the State of Utah. Additional community service has included positions on several nonprofit boards. She was senior vice president and regional manager of Private Client Services for Wells Fargo Bank in Utah until her retirement in July 2009.
Posted March 19, 2014
