Leadership
ACS Board members serve in their individual capacities. Their affiliated organizations are listed for identification purposes only.
Russ Feingold serves as an ex-officio member of the ACS Board of Directors.
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Gabriella Barbosa
Managing Director of Policy, The Children’s Partnership
Mark Califano
Partner, Dentons
Garrett Epps
Legal Affairs Editor, The Washington Monthly
Holly Fechner
Partner and co-chair of the Technology Industry group, Covington & Burling LLP; Visiting Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Russ Feingold
President
Steve Fineman
Managing Partner of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Owen Flomberg
Law Student, Washington University School of Law '23 and ACS 2022 Next Generation Leader
Ruben Garcia
Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
Daniel S. Goldman
Senior Advisor and Director of Investigations (Maj.) for the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Michele Goodwin
Chancellor's Professor, University of California Irvine School of Law, and Founding Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
Amb. Keith M. Harper (Ret.)
Chair of the Native American Practice, Jenner and Block
Aziz Z. Huq
Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law and Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar, University of Chicago Law School
Roscoe Jones, Jr.
Partner and Co-Chair of the Public Policy Practice Group, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Peter Karanjia
Chair of ACS Board of Directors
Hon. Tim Lewis (Ret.)
Co-chair of the Schnader, Attorneys at Law ADR Practice Group
Melissa Murray
Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network NYU School of Law
Alice O’Brien
General Counsel, National Education Association
Zoraima Pelaez
Student, The University of Texas School of Law
Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin (Ret.)
Of Counsel in New York for Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Marc Seltzer
Partner, Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
Peter Shane
Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Member, ACS Board of Directors and ACS Board of Academic Advisors.
Ganesh Sitaraman
New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law and Director of the Program on Law and Government, Vanderbilt Law School
Franita Tolson
Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Hon. Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
Former Solicitor General of the United States
Timothy W. Burns
Partner, Burns Bowen Bair LLP
Michael J. Faris
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Litigation, Stericycle
David C. Frederick
Partner, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick
Hon. Nancy Gertner
Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard University, Former U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Reuben A. Guttman
Founding member of Guttman, Buschner & Brooks, PLLC
Christopher Kang
Chief Counsel, Demand Justice
William P. Marshall
Kenan Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
Philippa Scarlett
Former Deputy Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator during the Obama Administration
Cliff Sloan
Retired Partner, Litigation, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates and Professor, Georgetown Law
Dawn L. Smalls
Partner, Jenner & Block
Paul M. Smith
Vice President of Litigation and Strategy, Campaign Legal Center
David A. Strauss
Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Adam Winkler
Professor, UCLA School of Law
Kate Andrias
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Andrew Manuel Crespo
Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Executive Faculty Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, Harvard Law School
Justin Driver
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Garrett Epps
Legal Affairs Editor, The Washington Monthly
Joseph R. Fishkin
Marrs McLean Professor in Law, University of Texas at Austin
Ruben Garcia
Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
Jamal Greene
Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Aziz Z. Huq
Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law and Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar, University of Chicago Law School
Genevieve Lakier
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Leah Litman
Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Michigan School of Law
William P. Marshall
Kenan Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
Melissa Murray
Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network NYU School of Law
Douglas NeJaime
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Micah Schwartzman
Joseph W. Dorn Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Peter Shane
Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Member, ACS Board of Directors and ACS Board of Academic Advisors.
Reva Siegel
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Neil S. Siegel
David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Duke Law School
Ganesh Sitaraman
New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law and Director of the Program on Law and Government, Vanderbilt Law School
David A. Strauss
Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Franita Tolson
Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Stephen I. Vladeck
A. Dalton Cross Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law
Adam Winkler
Professor, UCLA School of Law
Debo P. Adegbile
Partner, Co-Chair, Anti-Discrimination Practice, WilmerHale
Frederick M. Baron
Founder of Baron & Budd, P.C., and a former President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of American
Christina Beeler
Voting Rights Staff Attorney, Texas Civil Rights Project
Nicole G. Berner
General Counsel to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Stephen P. Berzon
Founding Partner, Partner Emeritus, and Special Counsel, Altshuler Berzon LLP
Andrew Blotky
Founder and CEO, Azure Leadership Group
Lisa Blue
Partner, Baron and Blue
Elise Boddie
Professor of Law, Henry Rutgers University Professor, Robert L. Carter Scholar, Rutgers Law School
Brooksley E. Born
Retired partner of Arnold & Porter
Robert Brauneis
Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Program, George Washington University Law School
David M. Brodsky
Principal of Brodsky ADR LLC
Timothy W. Burns
Partner, Burns Bowen Bair LLP
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Founding partner of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Alejandra Castillo
Assistant Secretary for Economic Development Administration, U.S. Economic Development Administration
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Myron M. Cherry
Founder and Managing Partner of Myron M. Cherry & Associates, LLC
Agatha M. Cole
Associate, Pollock | Cohen LLP
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
California Supreme Court Justice, Visiting Professor, Stanford Law, President of Carnegie Endowment
Walter E. Dellinger III
Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law, Duke University
Andrew DeVore
Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Amazon
Karen Dunn
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Maria Echaveste
Policy and Program Development Director, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Peter B. Edelman
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Former dean of the U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Jay W. Eisenhofer
Co-founder and Managing Director of Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.
Michael J. Faris
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Litigation, Stericycle
Rebecca Favret Medina
Attorney, Bowen, Shah & Clements, PLLC
Julie Fernandes
Associate Director, Rockefeller Family Fund
James Forman Jr.
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School
David C. Frederick
Partner, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick
Caroline Fredrickson
Senior Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice and Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
Scott Gale
Founder, Fundraising Management Group
Faith E. Gay
Founding partner of Selendy & Gay
Hon. Nancy Gertner
Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard University, Former U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Wade Gibson
Senior Vice President, Network Sales, Brinks Home Security
Iris Gonzalez
Legal Counselor and Strategic Leader
Linda Greenhouse
Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence, Yale Law School
Reuben A. Guttman
Founding member of Guttman, Buschner & Brooks, PLLC
Hon. Pamela Harris
Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Antonia Hernandez
President and CEO, California Community Foundation
Dennis Herrera
General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Hon. Eric Holder
82nd Attorney General of the United States and Senior Counsel, Covington
Lynne Walker Huntley
Former Program Manager, Ford Foundation’s Rights and Social Justice Program, and Former President of the Southern Education Foundation in Atlanta
Annie Irwin
Director, Smart Justice California
Jessica Jackson
Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of DreamCorps, Chief Advocacy Officer at Reform Alliance, and Former Mayor of Mill Valley
Dawn Johnsen
Acting Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel for President Joseph R. Biden and Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Ashland Johnson
President and Founder, Inclusion Playbook
Harriett Johnson-Oppenheim
Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Hon. Nathaniel R. Jones
Former Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, District Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio and General Counsel for the NAACP
Christopher Kang
Chief Counsel, Demand Justice
Pamela S. Karlan
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
Brad S. Karp
Chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Donya Khalili-Timofeyev
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Give.Write.Do. and Co-Founder and Co-Host, Two CC's of Ethics
Sophie Kim
Senior Associate, Flagship Pioneering
Ronald Klain
Chief of Staff to President Joseph R. Biden
Geoffrey Klineberg
Partner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C.
Victor Kovner
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Judith Lichtman
Senior Advisor for National Partnership for Women & Families
Hon. Goodwin Liu
Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Robert Malley
US Special Envoy for Iran and Former President & Chief Executive Officer, International Crisis Group
William P. Marshall
Kenan Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
Frank I. Michelman
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University
Abner J Mikva
Hon. Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Ngozi Nezianya
Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
James T. O'Hara
Of Counsel, Jones Day
Spencer Overton
President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Hon. Deval L. Patrick
71st Governor of Massachusetts
Andrew J Pincus
Partner, Mayer Brown
Robert Post
Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Robert Raben
Founder and President, The Raben Group
Ramona Romero
Vice President and General Counsel, Princeton University
Teresa Wynn Roseborough
EVP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, The Home Depot
Hon. Peter J. Rubin
Associate Justice, Massachusetts Court of Appeals
Laurie Rubiner
Executive Vice President Domestic Programs Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Philippa Scarlett
Former Deputy Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator during the Obama Administration
Judith Scott
Partner, James & Hoffman, P.C.
Ricki Seidman
Senior Principal, TSD Communications and Former Communications Department for Vice President Joseph R. Biden
Ted Shaw
Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights, University of North Carolina School of Law
Reva Siegel
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Neil S. Siegel
David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Duke Law School
Cliff Sloan
Retired Partner, Litigation, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates and Professor, Georgetown Law
Dawn L. Smalls
Partner, Jenner & Block
Paul M. Smith
Vice President of Litigation and Strategy, Campaign Legal Center
Jessica Smith-Peterson
Deputy Public Defender, Clark County Public Defender
Geoffrey Stone
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
David A. Strauss
Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Tim Supler
Brown & Supler, The Villlage Lawyers PLC
Stephen D. Susman
Former Partner, Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
Harry Susman
Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP
Daniel Tokaji
Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
Christine A. Varney
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Hon. Patricia M. Wald
Former Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Roger Wilkins
Former Assistant Attorney
Adam Winkler
Professor, UCLA School of Law
Sahng-Ah Yoo
Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP