Col. Will A. Gunn
CEO
Col. Will A. Gunn is CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW), a youth organization providing after-school academic enrichment and athletic activities for 35,000 children annually throughout the National Capital Region through its 21 clubs and a summer camp. Founded in 1886, BGCGW is the largest affiliate of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Gunn joins the BGCGW after a distinguished 25-year career in the United States Air Force and a long history of mentoring and volunteer work with young people through churches and schools wherever he was stationed.
Throughout his career, Gunn built, oversaw and managed large, complex legal teams to ensure fair and just representation within the military legal system. Most recently, Gunn was Chief Defense Counsel in the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions where he directed the overall defense effort for detainees brought before military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While in this post, Gunn built a defense office from the ground up and led a team of 14 military and 20 civilian pool attorneys representing a client base of more than 500 detainees. Prior to this position, he was Executive Officer to the Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG), where he oversaw the office responsible for organizing, assigning and training more than 2,500 active duty and reserve attorneys and paralegals.
Gunn has held a variety of positions as a manager and staff attorney for the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General, at one time leading a 52-person legal team covering an 11-state region that defended several thousand clients and served a total client base of more than 100,000 personnel at 26 installations. From 1990-1991 he was a White House Fellow, serving as a liaison between the White House and Department of Transportation, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Gunn has a deep commitment to helping people. He has been actively engaged in bringing more minorities into the Air Force Academy and working within JAG to mentor and develop young attorneys. He has coached various youth basketball teams, tutored in the Washington, DC and Montgomery, Alabama school systems and directed youth programs through his church.
He holds a J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He also holds an M.S. from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and an L.L.M. in Environmental Law from George Washington University.
He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Dawn, and three children.
Terry McCallister
Chairman of the Board
Terry McCallister is President & Chief Operating Officer of WGL Holdings/Washington Gas Light Company. After graduating with honors from the University of Missouri with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering Management, McCallister began his career in 1978 with ARCO, a major vertically integrated oil and gas company. Throughout his 20 years with ARCO, he progressed through numerous positions of increasing responsibility including Director and Vice-President of Arco Pipeline Company, where he had responsibility for all of its Operations, Engineering, and Environmental, Health, and Safety activities. In 1998, he joined Sonat as an officer and Vice-President in charge of Operations and Environment, Health, and Safety where he successfully helped transition and merge the company into El Paso Energy Corp.
In April 2000, McCallister joined Washington Gas Light Company, in Washington DC, now a wholly owned subsidiary of WGL Holdings, Inc. as Vice President of Gas Transportation. On October 1, 2001, McCallister was elected President and Chief Operating Officer of WGL Holdings, Inc. and Washington Gas Light Company. He is responsible for all aspects of the regulated utility including business development, construction, operations, environmental, safety, engineering, rates and gas acquisition, information technology and human resources activities. He also serves on the board of directors for several wholly owned subsidiaries of WGL Holdings, Inc.
McCallister plays an active leadership role in the natural gas industry. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Gas Technology Institute (a research company for the natural gas industry), the Leadership Council of the American Gas Association, and the Presidents’ Roundtable of the Southern Gas Association. In the past, he has also been active with the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the American Management Association. Because Washington Gas serves our Nation’s Capital, McCallister has been active in many initiatives to ensure infrastructure security, such as the Washington Area Council of Governments and the Natural Gas Industry Infrastructure Surety Workshop.
McCallister is very active in his community both from a civic viewpoint and a charitable viewpoint. He serves on the executive committee of the board of directors for both the Northern Virginia Business Roundtable and the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Both organizations promote business development in the metropolitan region. He is also a member of the INOVA Health System Foundation Board and the Economic Club of Washington.
McCallister gives willingly of his time to charities. He is Chairman of Board for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. He is a member of the board of directors for Northern Virginia Family Services and the National Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, during the past he has served as the Gala Chairman for the District of Columbia Youth Orchestra Program, setting records for those fundraising efforts, and Gala Chairman for Northern Virginia Family Services. He has actively participated in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Societies fund-raising events and the United Way Campaign in the Washington D.C. area. McCallister has chaired the United Way drives at Arco, raising greater than $2,000,000 for the United Way of Anchorage organization. In 2001, he was the Executive Sponsor for Washington Gas’s United Way campaign and the Toy Drive. McCallister and his wife Susan live in Alexandria, Virginia.
