(Click on the Board member's name to view their bio below.)
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Brad Barnes has distinguished himself in the northern/western Virginia region as an entrepreneur and business owner in the construction industry. He translated his management experience in a site development company into ownership and growth of the company culminating in a recent successful merger. Brad has served on the Northern Virginia Board of Associated Builders and Contractors — the construction industry trade association. He has also shared his knowledge and skills as a volunteer with many nonprofit initiatives, including 4-H/Rappahannock County Livestock Club; Rappahannock NonProfit Center; Rappahannock County Free Clinic; Habitat for Humanity; and Old Dominion Conservation and Education Foundation. He has also served as FamilyFutures Treasurer. Brad earned his degree in finance at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business while playing varsity baseball. He was named Most Valuable Player in 1995. Brad, his wife, two sons and a daughter are long-time Rappahannock County residents, attending and graduating from the county’s public schools.
Jane Eberhardt is a 17-year teaching veteran in the public schools in Chester Township, New Jersey, and holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and a master’s degree in education. Her focus was fifth-grade language arts and history. Since moving to Flint Hill in 2011, she has volunteered for the READ program and provided home instruction. Jane has drawn on her teaching experience to help plan learning objectives, lessons, and assessments as a member of FamilyFutures Program Committee. She has also served as our board’s Secretary and as our Vice Chair. Jane has also developed a small fiber business from her flock of sheep, continued her lifelong addiction to horseback riding, and enjoys her daughters, grandchildren, and working with her husband on their farm.
Candy Lamma retired in 2021 from 42 years in Rappahannock County Public Schools, serving as both a K-3 teacher and an Elementary School Counselor. Her undergraduate degree is in elementary education, and she holds a master’s degree in school personnel services and school counseling. Her love for children keeps her working part-time in retirement as the elementary school’s 504 coordinator. As a 4-H All Star herself, she has been involved in 4-H over the years, as well as a volunteer, board and executive committee member supporting community events and her church, and she is a charter member of the sorority for educators who have taught in surrounding counties. Candy has served FamilyFutures as Secretary to the board, and she is a member of our Program Committee. Her daughter graduated from Rappahannock County High School.
Debbie Massie is known to be passionate about education. Her work as a speech language pathologist for 36 years in Culpeper and Fauquier counties has been supplemented by a long and valued record of volunteering and board work in Rappahannock and beyond. She has served on the boards of the Mountain Vista Governor’s School and Headwaters Educations Foundation (where she has long been instrumental in the Next Step scholarship awards process), and she is a 4-H volunteer. Debbie is a member of FamilyFutures Program Committee and has served our board as Secretary. Debbie and her husband own a beef cattle farm, and both their children are graduates of Rappahannock County Public Schools.
Tom Massie, Jr., DVM, was raised in Rappahannock County, graduated from the county’s public schools (RCPS), and after his veterinary training and a brief period of work outside Rappahannock returned to the county to start his own practice locally. He has built Rose Hill Veterinary Practice, PC, a highly-successful regional full-service presence for both large and small animals, with 18 full-time employees. Tom works with local families and students through the 4-H program, is an active member of several professional mentor programs, and has been active as a resource for Rappahannock County Public Schools’ agriculture program offering mentoring and hands-on experience for students at his practice, as well as a resource for — and supporter of — Future Farmers of America. Tom has been a member of — and led — the statewide veterinary medicine board, works with his family in management of their beef cattle farm, and continues to live with his wife in Washington, Virginia, often welcoming home there his three grown children — all RCPS graduates. He has served FamilyFutures as Chair of our board.
Alexia Morrison left a successful legal career in 1998 to focus on her teaching (University of Virginia Law School since 1989, GWLaw 1999-2000) and on nonprofit work serving youth. She was promptly recruited to DC’s Children’s Law Center, which she chaired from 1999-2003. Moving from DC to Rappahannock County in 2003, she continued nonprofit work in both venues in areas including domestic violence and children in abusive homes; nonprofit governance; environmental issues; and local arts organizations, chairing many of those boards. Alexia has also consulted and facilitated meetings and conferences for numerous area nonprofits and Shenandoah National Park. She served as Trustee for GW University from 1999-2005. As Chief Litigation Counsel for the SEC, Alexia received the Presidential Rank Award “Distinguished Executive.” In 1988, she was appointed Independent Counsel under the 1974 Ethics in Government Act. Her work has been recognized through awards from numerous organizations, including the 1998 Award for Outstanding Lawyering from New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. Alexia was a member of FamilyFutures’ founding board in 2019 and has served as Chair. She is on our Program Committee. Alexia’s daughter — and MBA — and granddaughter live in Charlottesville.
Erin Sherry is a native of Pennsylvania with a 2004 Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from The Pennsylvania State University. She began teaching in Prince William County Schools third grade, relocated to Amissville and moved to a private school in Culpeper, and has remained active in education and community life while raising four children ranging from second to tenth grade. She grew up with family members who are Financial Advisors, and she loves keeping the MyFuture Wall in the RCES cafeteria fresh and challenging for students, with the joke of the week (always MyFuture-themed), and MyFuture Challenges that encourage students to write and draw about a financial topic. The kids see the wall any time they visit the cafeteria, and they clearly love it. Erin served as an aide to the MyFuture program in the 2023-2024 school year, took courses in finance and teaching financial literacy over Summer 2024 with support from FamilyFutures, and became our FamilyFutures MyFuture Educator at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year. She spends her time updating existing lesson plans, creating new ones, and delivering the monthly STEAM financial literacy lessons to our students. When she’s not teaching and prepping lessons, Erin loves being a mom, reading, caring for her chickens, and snowboarding with her family. She just published her first book, “Alpha-Gal Gal Takes on the World,” inspired by her own journey with the tick borne food allergy.
Birgitt Thornhill graduated from college with a major in Animal Science and a minor in Business. She began her career at Pillsbury Company in Eden, NC, selling one of their grain products to a five-state area. Having met the man she would marry in college, she moved to Rappahannock County in 1980 and began work with the Virginia Extension Service as an Agriculture/4-H agent working extensively with farmers and the schools to develop the county’s 4-H program. After her Extension service, she became a Merchant for Plow and Hearth, developing products and traveling the world. Birgitt has volunteered at Piedmont Technical School in Culpeper to tutor clients in subjects need to pass their GED to improve their job prospects. She has taught painting classes at that school as well. Birgitt and her husband have three children — all graduates of their parents college, VPI — and four grandchildren, three of whom live in Rappahannock County. Birgitt was elected Chair of the FamilyFutures Board in 2025, and she spends her other time running her short-term rental business, working with stained glass, and gardening.
Ned Waterhouse is a proud Virginia public school educator who spent 38 years with Loudoun County Public Schools, the last 15 as Deputy Superintendent for that county. He also spent three years as Director of Open Arms Christian Child Development Center in Ashburn, Virginia. Throughout these years, Ned has shown his commitment to community service through his work on many boards, foundations, and committees at the community, regional, and state levels. These experiences have left him both knowledgable and passionate about creating and providing quality educational opportunities for all students. He values the importance of working collaboratively in both public and private sectors to better the lives of children. Ned has four adult children and five grandchildren, and he treasures spending time with them. He became Executive Director for FamilyFutures early in 2023, and he is enthusiastically engaged in our work, our relationships with RCPS, Oak View National Bank, and our many collaboration partners in Rappahannock.
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