Tersh Boasberg Chairman Term: Appointed in 2000, reappointed 2002, 2007. Current term ends July 21, 2010. Tersh Boasberg is an attorney specializing in land use, historic preservation and environmental law. His past service has included terms as commissioner and chairman of the DC Zoning Commission, chair of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, founder of Preservation Action, president of the National Center for Preservation Law, president of the Cleveland Park Historical Society, and trustee of the National Building Museum. Currently, Mr. Boasberg serves as chair of the Historic Preservation Review Board, board member of the DC Commemorative Works Committee and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Along with his other accomplishments, Mr. Boasberg is coauthor of the three-volume Historic Preservation Law and Taxation, is responsible for helping to preserve thousands of acres of Civil War battlefield land nationwide, and has received awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Preservation Honor Award 1989), the Piedmont Environmental Council (Environmental Conservation 1994), and the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (Outstanding Service Award 1997). He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, received his law degree from Harvard Law School, and has been a resident of the District of Columbia since 1964.