On June 15, Melody Barnes was elected Vice Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit that has owned and operated Monticello for 95 years. And after a two-year term, she will become the group's chairman, the first Black person, man or woman, to ever inhabit the role, the foundation exclusively tells Glamour. Barnes, a senior fellow and Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, brings to the foundation a unique mix of professional knowledge and personal experience.