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.