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National Officers

  • David W. Mills
    Chair
    Professor of Practice and Senior Lecturer, Stanford Law School, Director of Clinical Education at Stanford (RET.), Managing Partner of Harbourton Enterprises

  • Gerald S. Adolph
    Chair
    Senior Partner, Booz Allen Hamilton

  • Patrick A Bradford
    Secretary
    General Counsel, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

  • Clifford P. Case III
    Treasurer
    Partner, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

  • Sherrilyn Ifill
    President and Director-Counsel
    NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.

National Board of Directors

  • Judith I. Byrd
    Travel Retail Consultant

  • James Castillo
    Retired United Parcel Service District Operation Vice President

  • Gregory Evans
    Principal, Integer Law Corporation

  • Toni G. Fay
    Former Executive, Time Warner, Inc.

  • Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Director of W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University

  • David E. Kendall
    Partner, Williams & Connolly

  • Michael R. Klein
    Co-Founder & Chairman, The Sunlight Foundation

  • Tonya Lewis Lee
    Principal, Madstone Company, Inc.

  • William Lighten
    Managing Director, Eland Capital Partners

  • Cecilia S. Marshall
    Civic Leader

  • Gabriella E. Morris
    Former President, The Prudential Foundation

  • Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
    Professor, Harvard University School of Law

  • Adebayo Ogunlesi
    Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners

  • Luis Penalver
    Partner, Corporate Group Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

  • Steven B. Pfeiffer
    Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP

  • Daniel L. Rabinowitz
    Principal, Law Offices of Daniel L. Rabinowitz

  • Laurie Nicole Robinson
    Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel
    CBS Corporation

  • Judith McCartin Scheide
    Former Development Officer, Princeton University

  • Angela Vallot
    President, VallotKarp

  • Karen Hastie Williams
    Former Senior Partner, Crowell & Moring

Senior Directors

  • Anthony G. Amsterdam

  • Eleanor S. Applewhaite

  • Dr. Mary Frances Berry

  • Julius L. Chambers

  • William K. Coblentz

  • William T. Coleman, Jr.

  • Kenneth C. Edelin, M.D.

  • Nannette B. Gibson

  • Jack Greenberg

  • Louis Harris

  • Anna Faith Jones

  • Jetta N. Jones

  • Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

  • David S. Lindau

  • John D. Maguire

  • Richard M. Moss

  • Lawrence Newman

  • Martin D. Payson

  • Robert O. Preyer

  • Charles B. Renfrew

  • Paul N. Roth

  • Judith T. Sapers

  • William H. Scheide

  • Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr.

  • John W. Walker

  • George Wallerstein

  • Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

  • Andrew Young

Co-Chairs Emeriti

  • Julius L. Chambers

  • William M. Lewis, Jr.

  • Martin D. Payson

  • William T. Coleman, Jr.

  • Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Directors Emeriti

  • Billye Suber Aaron

  • Clarence Avant

  • Alice M. Beasley

  • Anita Lyons Bond

  • William H. Brown III

  • Talbot D'Alemberte

  • Peter J. DeLuca

  • Anthony S. Downs

  • Marian Wright Edelman

  • Clarence Finley

  • H. Minton Francis

  • Ronald T. Gault

  • Lucy Durr Hackney

  • Charles V. Hamilton

  • Patricia L. Irvin

  • Quincy Jones

  • Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach

  • Caroline B. Kennedy

  • George E. Marshall, Jr.

  • James M. Nabrit III

  • Glendora McIlwain Putnam

  • C. Carl Randolph

  • Gilbert T. Ray

  • Wayman F. Smith III

  • Michael I. Sovern

  • Bonnie Kayatta Steingart

  • Chuck Stone

  • Jay Topkis

  • Roger W. Wilkins

  • E. Thomas Williams, Jr.

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