Berry, Penniman, Wingert Appointed To RCC Board Of Governors

RESTON, VA — Hunter Mill District Supervisor Walter Alcorn asked the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at its meeting on Tuesday to appoint Paul Berry, William Penniman, and Vicky Wingert to three-year terms on the Reston Community Center Board of Governors.

Penniman and Wingert were incumbents and Berry was new to the nine-member board.

The newly appointed board members, whose terms begin on Nov. 6, were selected during the 2023 RCC Preference Poll, which ran from Sept. 8 to Sept. 29.

Here are the official vote tallies for the three appointees:

• Vicky Winger1 - 1,219
• William Penniman - 1,105
• Paul Berry - 1,051

RCC provided the following bills for the three new board members:

Paul Berry has been part of leadership teams for many public service projects in Fairfax County including the decennial redistricting and county-wide efforts to remove the names of slaveholders from the magisterial districts. At the state level, he served Governor Northam on the Virginia Latino Advisory Board.

William Penniman has served on the RCC Board since 2006. He previously served as the Board’s secretary and treasurer, and he is active in the Reston Planning and Zoning Committee. He represented RCC to the Reston Comprehensive Plan Task Force, former Reston Master Plan Special Study Task Force, and is an active member in the Sierra Club.

Vicky Wingert has been a resident of Reston since 1973 and has served on RCC’s Board since 2011. She has served as the president of the Reston Historic Trust, on the Reston Association Board of Directors and was a founder of Friends of Reston. She was named a Best of Reston awardee in 2000 and a Simon Fellow in 2017.