Executive Director And Trustee
J. Hamilton Lambert was born and raised in the Virginia Piedmont Horse Country of Loudoun County, outside of Washington, DC. Mr. Lambert was educated in Virginia and began his government career in Fairfax County in 1959. He held more than 20 positions in the Fairfax County Government and spent more than 14 years of those as either acting or permanent County Executive. Mr. Lambert has been with the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation since the beginning. He was our first Executive Director and remains in that position.
Upon his retirement in 1990 from the position of County Executive of Fairfax County, Virginia, he founded J. Hamilton Lambert and Associates, which provides a range of customized management and consulting services to governments, businesses and individuals. The firm’s areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, management reviews, strategic planning, organizational development, acquisitions, conflict resolution, financial services, engineering, and real estate research and evaluation.
Mr. Lambert has received hundreds of awards, including Washingtonian of the Year; a City and State Magazine “Country’s Top Two County Executives; the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments’ Top Award; Citizen of the Year in both Loudoun and Fairfax; and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from George Mason University.