Board Member Profiles

David L. Winstead, Acting-Chair

Mr. David L. Winstead and his wife, Page, have lived in the Village for twenty-four years. They are the proud parents of three children: a son living in New York City, a daughter at Middlebury College and a daughter at University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Mr. Winstead previously served as Board Secretary from l987 to l989.

As a member of the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers, Mr. Winstead's expertise in real estate and transportation matters, as well as his experience with the officials and governance in both Montgomery County and the State of Maryland provides an important perspective to Board deliberations. During this current term, he has assisted in numerous transportation, development and traffic issues, as well as state assistance with enhancements along Connecticut Avenue and Brookville Road.

Peter M. Yeo, Secretary

Mr. Peter M. Yeo lives with his wife, Anne, and his two boys at 113 Grafton Street. Eight years ago, Mr. Yeo organized Village residents in launching the Village Committee on Children, Youth and Families. The Committee brings together neighborhood parents and their children for a variety of activities. Using parent volunteers, the Committee has sponsored magic and wild animal shows, volunteer events, and "Mad Science" and hip-hop dance lessons. Mr. Yeo has hosted Movie Nights and Parents Night Out events for the Committee, as well as serving as liaison to the Village Board. Mr. Yeo also served on the Village Building Facilities Commission and the Village Ad Hoc Traffic Committee. Mr. Yeo has two sons – Ben (age 17) who graduated from Somerset Elementary School and currently attends St. Andrew's Episcopal School, and William (age 10), who currently attends Somerset.

Mr. Yeo is the Vice President for Public Policy at the United Nations Foundation, where he works to develop closer ties between the U.S. and the United Nations. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Yeo served as Deputy Staff Director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs for the U.S. House of Representatives. He managed the legislative and oversight activities for the Committee, as well as Asian political, economic and security issues. Mr. Yeo also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs during the Clinton Administration. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.A. in Asian Studies from Harvard University.

Peter T. Kilborn, Assistant Secretary

Peter T. Kilborn, of 4007 Oliver Street, is an author and former New York Times editor and reporter who has lived in Chevy Chase Village for twenty-eight years.  He and his wife Susan Woodward Kilborn, an avid gardener and parks committee member, have two grown children, David Kilborn, of Charleston, South Carolina, and Elizabeth Wilhelm, of Buena Vista, Virginia, and six grandchildren.

Mr. Kilborn led the successful opposition this winter to the Village’s proposed acquisition of Taser electronic stun guns on grounds that they both inadvertently kill.  As a member of the budget committee, he is a voice for property tax stability and spending restraint, particularly in the face of the current budgets’ large deficits.  He is also chairman of the new parking committee.

Mr. Kilborn grew up in Providence and Little Compton, Rhode Island.  He has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in Hartford, where he was editor of the student newspaper and years later a trustee of the college.  He has a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, and was a professional journalism fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto.

After a stint as an Army private, he became Paris correspondent, Los Angeles bureau chief and a staff editor at Business Week magazine, and then business editor at Newsweek.  At the New York Times, he was economics correspondent in London, the editor of the Sunday Business Section, and Washington economics correspondent covering the White House, the Treasury, Congress, and the World Bank.  Then for fifteen years, he was the Times’ roving national correspondent, based in Washington, covering the American scene.  Last year, Henry Holt & Co. and Times Books published his Next Stop Reloville, Life inside America’s New Rootless Professional Class.  He is a co-author of a related Holt/Times book, Class Matters.

“We love this place,” Mr. Kilborn said.  “Throughout Susan’s and my time here, Chevy Chase Village has carried on, maintaining its live-and-let-live community values, timeless character, and uncommon, even heroic services.  Within hours this winter, whole days ahead of most Washington-area communities, the Village Public Works Department cleared our roads of the worst snow accumulation in more than one hundred years.  Lately, because of the toll of the national economy’s reversals on the Village’s normally robust finances, we could face some unappealing choices.  My first priority is to protect what’s important to us, at no additional taxpayer cost.”

 Gail S. Feldman, Treasurer

Ms. Gail S. Feldman has established deep roots in Chevy Chase Village, having resided at 18 Oxford Street with her husband Roger for 32 years, raised their two children here, and dedicated significant time and energy to many facets of Village life.

She has been a member of the Board of Managers since 2005, assuming the role of Treasurer at that time. As Treasurer and Chair of the Investment Committee, she has focused considerable effort on developing and implementing formal financial controls and investment procedures for the Village, and on reshaping its Investment Policy, areas of mounting importance as the Village budget has grown and as greater economic and financial uncertainties have arisen.

Ms. Feldman has been heavily involved in the work of the Budget Committee since 1996, and is also an active member of the Audit Committee. As a member of the Local Advisory Panel to the Historic Preservation Commission, she has worked for the fair and just application of its rules to every Village resident. She is also a member of the Brookville Road Working Group.

Ms. Feldman is a graduate of Barnard College, with a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA in Finance from American University. She has held positions as a legislative aide to a Congressman and on the staff of the Joint Economic Committee. She then became a financial analyst with a bank consulting firm, a senior manager with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and an officer of a large regional bank. Ms. Feldman serves on the Board of Directors of the Barnard in Washington Club and publishes its quarterly newsletter. She has been involved in many other community activities, including active volunteer roles in political campaigns, both local and national.

Allison W. Shuren, Assistant Treasurer

Allison Weber Shuren lives at 108 Hesketh Street with her husband, Jeffrey Shuren, MD., J.D.  They have lived in Chevy Chase Village for five years.  Allison is a partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP where she specializes in health care law.  Jeff is the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Medical Devices and Radiologic Health.  Prior to her legal career, Allison was a practicing pediatric nurse practitioner specializing in the care of infants and children born with heart disease and other critical congenital problems.  Over the course of her clinical career she held management and leadership positions.  Allison’s legal practice regularly involves interaction with the federal and state governments, and she understands from experience the balances that must be drawn when making difficult decisions impacting a broad community of stakeholders with differing opinions.  Her work requires her to be adept at negotiation and consensus building.  Allison served as the treasurer for the townhome community where she and Jeff lived prior to moving to the Village.  In that role, she gained experience in managing the fiscal, political, social and legal challenges of a diverse community.  She is privileged to serve in such a capacity again, this time on behalf of the Village community.

Lawrence C. Heilman, Board Member

Lawrence Heilman has resided at 46 Grafton Street since 1977 where he and his wife, Anne, have raised two children, Elin and Carlos.  During his first several years in the Village, Larry coached a soccer team made up several boys from the Village.  Starting in the Nineties, he has been active on the: 

(1) Personnel Committee (PC): He served for three years as the Chair of the PC.  With the Village Manager he helped draft personnel position descriptions for Village employees and revised the pay scale.

(2) Budget Committee (BC): For several years, he was a member of the BC.  He focused on reviewing the budget submission prepared by the Village Staff; advocating fairer pay for all staff; and promoting a rational method for reviewing the plethora of civil works projects that was being promoted by the Village Manager.  He advocated reducing taxes as long as the Village’s Reserve was excessive.

(3) Public Safety Committee (PSC): He promoted the creation of the PSC and served as its first Chair. His focus was to create a committee that would serve as a bridge to the community.

(4) Energy and Environmental Committee (EEC): He advocated the creation of the EEC and is currently serving as its first Chair. His goals for the ECC are to reduce the Village's carbon footprint and assist the Board and Staff in making our Village a model of sound environmental and energy practice.