Blue Grass Resource Center Board of Directors
Robin Sullenberger, BGRC President
Robin served as CEO of the Shenandoah Valley Partnership until retiring in 2013, and is a former five-term Highland county supervisor. Sullenberger currently serves on the GO Virginia board. He is past chair of the State Board for the Virginia Community College System.
Richard G. Johntone, Jr., BGRC Vice President
Richard is retired president and CEO of the Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives, and editor and publisher of Cooperative Living magazine. He and his wife live in Richmond and own a home in Blue Grass.
Jamie Collins, Renovation Chair
Jamie relocated to Highland County after her retirement in 2018. An Architect by profession, she previously served as the Building Official of Manassas, Virginia. Part of her position responsibilities in Manassas was the oversight of the Architectural Review Board, which reviewed all projects in the Historic District.
Jamie currently is a member of the Highland County EDA.
Chanda D. Sponaugle, BGRC Treasurer
Chanda is a native of the Blue Grass area of Highland County. She works for the Blue Grass Valley Bank as Compliance Officer. She is a member of the Blue Grass United Methodist Church and the long-time past treasurer and current member of the Blue Grass Ruritan Club.
Nancy F. Witschey, BGRC Secretary
Nancy is the former chair and member of the EDA and member of the broadband planning team, which evolved to become the Bath-Highland Broadband Authority. She is chair of Friends of Hayfields County State Park.
Betty Mitchell, Executive Director
Betty was integral in the acquisition of the Highland Inn and for the successful completion of Phase 1 of the project, which provided exterior stabilization. She has forty plus years experience in garnering support, both fiscal and in-kind, for community projects. In her previous position as executive director of the Highland Center, she was directly responsible for the Highland Center’s $3 million renovation, completed in 2016. Betty and her husband Brian Richardson have resided on their sheep farm in Blue Grass since 1995.
