Board of Directors
Board Officers
Elected Directors
Hon. Dolly M. Gee
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Los Angeles, California
Mason Ji
Perkins Coie
Seattle, Washington
Hon. Eileen A. Kato (Ret.)
Seattle, Washington
Shayda Zaerpoor Le
Barran Liebman LLP
Portland, Oregon
Darrell G. Mottley
Suffolk Law School
Boston, Massachusetts
J. Anthony Patterson, Jr.
Whitefish, Montana
Paul M. Smith
Campaign Legal Center
Washington, DC
Ex-Officio Directors
American Bar Association (ABA) Ex-Officio Directors
Barbara J. Howard
President, American Bar Association
Barbara J. Howard Co., L.P.A.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Laura V. Farber
President-Elect, American Bar Association
ABA
Aurora Austriaco
Chair, ABA House of Delegates
Chicago, Illinois
Howard T. Wall III
Chair, ABA Fund for Justice and Education
Epstein Becker Green
Nashville, Tennessee
American Bar Endowment (ABE) Ex-Officio Director
Hon. Lora J. Livingston (Ret.)
President, American Bar Endowment
Austin, Texas
Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Ex-Officio Directors
Mario L. Barnes
Chair of the Fellows
University of California, Irvine
Michael J. Hernandez
Chair-Elect of the Fellows
Franczek P.C.
Chicago, Illinois
Laura Possessky
Secretary of the Fellows
Suffolk University
Washington, DC
Jennifer L. Parent
Immediate Past Chair of the Fellows
McLane Middleton
Manchester, New Hampshire
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Ex-Officio Director
Zachary D. Clopton
Dean, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Chicago, Illinois