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Russell
Cecil Scott
Russell Cecil Scott, a native of Richmond, Virginia, is
the son of Frederic Robert Scott, II and Elizabeth
Barnett Cecil. Mr. Scott attended
St. Christopher’s School
in Richmond. He completed his Bachelor of Mechanical
Engineering at
Cornell University, and
his M.S. in Engineering at
Princeton University.
He is married to Anne Addison Scott, and has three
children: Russell Cecil Scott, Jr., Helen MacLaren
Scott, and William Norwood Scott
Mr. Scott served on active duty in the Naval Reserve in
World War II and the Korean War, and retired with the
rank of Commander. He worked as an aerospace engineer
in the development of guided missiles for Navy
contractors for over twenty years and was later a
lobbyist for non- profit conservation groups.
Additionally, Mr. Scott served the Commonwealth of
Virginia as an Associate Commissioner of Marine
Resources and as chairman of the Virginia Boating
Advisory Board.
Society Memberships
* Society of the Cincinnati
* Society of Colonial Wars (Honorary Governor General)
* Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5
* National Gavel Society
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Founding Member)
* Order of the Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Member
of the Council)
* Order of Founders and Patriots in America (Chaplain of
the Virginia
Society)
* General Society Sons of the Revolution (former member
of the Council of
the Virginia Society)
* Jamestowne Society
* Military Order of the Stars and Bars
Other Notes
Mr. Scott served for thirty-six years as an Operational
Member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, conducting
many successful search and rescue missions in tidewater
Virginia. He was Commodore of the Virginia Yacht Club on
two occasions, and piloted his own boats from Chesapeake
Bay south to the sandy beaches of Florida and the
Bahamas, and north to the rocky coast of Maine.
Additionally, Mr. Scott is an Honorary Trustee of the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and has served as a Director
and Vice President of the James River Association, as
well as a Director of the Alliance for the Chesapeake
Bay.
Mr. Scott is a member the Commonwealth Club (Richmond),
the Country Club of Virginia, the Richmond German, and
the University Cottage Club (Princeton).
He has served as Deacon, Elder, and Trustee of Second
Presbyterian Church in Richmond, as well as Trustee,
Vice President, and President of Westminster
Presbyterian Homes, Inc., a church- related corporation
dedicated to developing continuing care communities (CCC)
in Virginia. Mr. Scott has also served as a trustee of
Westminster Canterbury Richmond, the first of five
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