Alan obtained his BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Kentucky.  He began his career at the Ronald Reagan Presidential library as an archivist.  He has worked for the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.  He served as the Executive Director of the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee from 2003 to 2009. From 2009 to 2016, Alan served as founding Director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. In 2016, Alan was appointed as founding Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, a position he held until 2019.  Then he returned to Tennessee and became the director of the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge.  If elected, Alan will begin his first two-year term on the FORNL Board.

Gloria Caton received her B.S. in Chemistry (1962) from Juniata College and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (1968) from Iowa State University. In her 40 years at ORNL she was involved in scientific and technical information management in the energy and environmental areas. She initiated, managed and was the webmaster for the NRC-State and Tribal Programs (STP) Website for the NRC Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards for 16 years. This website accomplished the needs of NRC-STP to communicate quickly and accurately with the Agreement States. She also initiated websites for Industrial Materials for the Future, Continuous Fiber Ceramic Composites, and Advanced Industrial Materials. Gloria was the managing editor for the DOE Protecting Human Subjects Newsletter for 12 years and the DOE Radon Newsletter for 5 years. She also was the principal investigator for several large computer database applications on on-going energy R&D (1972-1979), acid precipitation, coal liquefaction components, etc.
She volunteers at Grace Lutheran church, Ecumenical Storehouse, and Friends of the Library.
Her hobbies include travel, photography, reading, and three grandchildren.

Lee Riedinger got his physics PhD from Vanderbilt in 1968 after spending two years working on dissertation research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He joined the University of Tennessee Physics faculty in 1971 and served there until his retirement in 2019. His field is experimental nuclear physics and he led many experiments at accelerators at ORNL and other labs in the U.S. and Europe. He was the UT vice chancellor for research three different times and directed the UT/ORNL Science Alliance in the 1980s. He was one of the leaders of the initiative at UT to team with Battelle and bid on the contract to manage ORNL, which succeeded as the UT-Battelle LLC tenure at ORNL began in 2000. He served on this management team from 2000 to 2006, the first four years as the deputy director for science and technology. He returned to UT in 2006 and next started the UT/ORNL Bredesen Center in 2010 and its two new interdisciplinary PhD programs, which he directed until his retirement. With co-authors Al Ekkebus, Ray Smith, and Bill Bugg, he has written a book on the long history of the partnership between UT and Oak Ridge: Critical Connections: The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Present, published by UT Press in 2024.