JULIE J. KIDD

Julie Johnson Kidd has served as President of the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation since 1980.  Since that time, she has served as a Chair and Member on numerous Boards of Trustees in the United States and Europe.  In the United States, those institutions include Middlebury College, Hamilton College, Teachers College of Columbia University, The Brearley School, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation and the National Museum of the American Indian.  In Europe, she serves on the Board of the Artes Liberales Institute at the University of Warsaw, and the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts.

She has received honorary doctorates of humane letters from Middlebury College, Hamilton College and Gettysburg College, and her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College.  She received the Heye Foundation Medal of Honor from the Museum of the American Indian, the James Smithson Medal from the Smithsonian Institution for her work in creating the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, the Council of Independent Colleges' Award for Volunteerism and Philanthropy, and the University of Warsaw Medal of Honor.