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Barbara Hughes, President and CEO
Barbara Hughes is President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Foundation Sonoma County. With 25 years of corporate and nonprofit experience, she brings a record of results built on a foundation of sound financial management, strategic planning and inclusive leadership.
Prior to joining the foundation, Ms. Hughes advised a range of nonprofit clients on financial reporting, business planning and operations, as well as governance and leadership training. She most recently served as interim Executive Director for the California Association of Food Banks, the organization providing programs and services to 45 food banks throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Before co-founding her consulting practice, Barbara served as the Senior Vice President and Controller at Fireman’s Fund Insurance in Novato, leading a team of 140 finance professionals. Participating in the acquisitions of two companies led to an appreciation of thoughtfully managing effective transitions while successfully navigating all of the related financial and individual considerations.
Barbara began her career at the South Jersey Savings Bank in Turnersville, New Jersey, where she introduced new products and implemented controls for the credit operations of a $400 million community lender. Her work included overseeing compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act, for which the bank consistently received top ratings from federal and state regulators.
Barbara holds a degree in Accounting from Rutgers University. Her community involvement includes having served on the Board of Directors for the Center for Responsible Funding in Philadelphia and the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa.
Barbara and her husband Greg DiPaolo are residents of the city of Sonoma.
Robert Judd, Vice President for Programs
Since 1997, Robert has headed the Community Foundation Sonoma County’s competitive grant programs in the fields of arts, education, environment and health/human services. In addition, he supervises the Community Foundation’s competitive scholarship program and has overseen major multi-year grants that the Foundation received from the James Irvine, California Endowment, Hewlett, and Packard foundations. He currently serves on the board of the United Way and the Steering Committee for the Sonoma County Continuum of Care. He also represents the Community Foundation at the Funders Roundtable.
Prior to joining the Community Foundation, Robert was a program director for eight years at Community Action Partnership Sonoma County where he directed programs assisting homeless women and families and providing neighborhood youth services to low-income residents in Santa Rosa’s South Park and West Steele Lane areas. Before coming to Sonoma County, he worked in hospital and mental health administration for 13 years in San Francisco and Chicago.
Robert holds a masters degree in humanities from the University of Chicago and a baccalaureate in philosophy from Bard College. He and his wife Linda live in unincorporated west county and volunteer as land monitors for the Sonoma Land Trust.
J Mullineaux, Vice President for Development
W. John Mullineaux (“J”) has worked in philanthropy for twenty-four years and has spent sixteen years of his career advancing the arts. Currently, he is Vice President for Development at Community Foundation Sonoma County. He has held positions as Director of Development at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Asian Art Museum, and San Francisco Ballet.
In these roles, he was responsible for planning and directing a comprehensive program of fundraising for annual operations, endowment, and special projects. He has managed as many as thirty development staff in individual giving; corporate, foundation and government support; planned giving; special events; membership; and development computer systems. During his tenure at the Asian Art Museum, the institution completed a $170 million Capital Campaign in 2003. Mr. Mullineaux began his development career at Columbia University in 1984. He is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle and Columbia University.
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