Leslie Greene Bowman (born November 9, 1956) is an American museum administrator and decorative arts historian who has served as president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and runs Monticello, since 2008.
[1][2] Born in Springfield, Ohio, Bowman received her PhB from Miami University in 1978 and her MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, which the Winterthur Museum jointly administers with the University of Delaware, in 1981.
[2] Among her signature accomplishments at Winterthur Museum was arranging for a 2002 conservation easement on the 970-acre property to ensure it would never be developed, along with a campaign to attract new audiences through children's programming and rotating and traveling exhibitions.
[3] She has been a member of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House since 1993, serving under five presidents.
[2] Bowman collaborated to curate three traveling exhibitions and author accompanying exhibition catalogs entitled American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design (1990), American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament (1992, coauthor Morrison Heckscher from the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life (1993).