Officers & Board of Directors

CHAIR

Victor A. Kovner
Partner, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP, specializing in Communications Law and Civil Litigation. Recipient of the Jerome Michael Award and the E.B. Converse Prize. Current Member, New York State Commission on Public Access; past Member, New York City Mayor's Committee on the Judiciary; past Member and Chair, New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct; Former Corporation Counsel, City of New York, 1990-1991.

PAST CHAIRS

Fern Schair
Senior Vice President, the American Arbitration Association;
President, Board of Directors of Legal Services of New York City. Currently Vice Chair, Committee on Women and The Courts and President of the Children's Law Center; and Member of the Board, American Judicature Society. Has served as Executive Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and as Program Development Officer for the Soros Foundation-Open Society Institute.

Michael A. Cardozo
Corporation Counsel, City of New York; formerly Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP; past President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; former Chair, New York State Committee on Judicial Administration; former Chair, New York State Appellate Division Task Force.

Edwin F. Chinlund (1890-1960)
Vice President and Treasurer of R.H. Macy & Co.; President of Postal Telegraph; Partner, Arthur Andersen.  Chair of the Finance Committee of the Board of the National Urban League; a Trustee of Citizens Budget Commission; Member of the Executive Committee of Citizens Union.

John D. Feerick
Professor and former Dean, Fordham University School of Law; former Chair, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association; past President, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; former Chair, New York State Commission on Government Integrity; past President, Board of Directors, Citizens Union Foundation.

Robert M. Kaufman
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP; United States Chairman of the Board of the Pirelli Group; past President, American Judicature Society; past President, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; member, judicial selection committee of Senator Daniel P. Moynihan; former legislative assistant to Senator Jacob K. Javits.

Robert MacCrate
Senior Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell; past President, American Bar Foundation; past President, American Bar Association; past President, American Judicature Society; past President, New York State Bar Association and the New York Bar Foundation; former Counsel to Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

John J. McCloy (1895 - 1989)
International banker, lawyer and diplomat who was an advisor to U.S. Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.  President of the World Bank.  Chair of the Board of Chase Manhattan Bank.  Member, Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, and also Member, Cravath, DeGersdorff, Swaine & Wood.  Chair of the Boards of the Ford Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and International House. 

Cyrus R. Vance (1917 - 2002)
Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980.  Deputy of Defense under Robert McNamara, and international negotiator deployed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to Panama, Cyprus, and South Korea.  Member of Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett.  Chair of the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, Vice Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations, and member of the United Nations Association and Trilateral Commission.

VICE CHAIRS

Milton L. Williams, Jr., Chair of Executive Committee
Partner, Vladeck, Waldman, Ellias & Engelhardt, P.C., former Deputy General Counsel/Litigation Counsel at Time Inc., former Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney's Office, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO).

Catherine Douglass

SECRETARY

Katherine Forrest
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Katherine was cited as being one of the country’s leading practitioners in Chambers Global 2008 and 2009: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers USA 2008 and 2009: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in antitrust, intellectual property and media law and Chambers USA 2007 and 2006 in antitrust and intellectual property law. Katherine was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 as a leader in antitrust law.

TREASURER

Peter A. Cross
Managing Partner, Jacob Medinger and Finnegan.  Leader of the general litigation group and member of the entertainment practice group.  Board Member and Treasurer, Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York; Board Member - Brooklyn Legal Services, Corportation 'A'; Mediator, U.S. District Court, SDNY; Former Senior Litigation Counsel, ITT

BOARD OF DIRECTORS*

David B. Anders Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz Nina Beattie Brune & Richard LLP Sheila L. Birnbaum Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Fernando Bohorquez, Jr. Baker Hostetler Barry Bohrer Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer Vernon Broderick Weil, Gotshal & Manges George Bundy Smith Chadbourne & Park LLP Andrew J. Ceresney Debevoise & Plimpton Michael L. Costello Tobin & Dempf LLP Barry A. Cozier Epstein Becker & Green Jeremy Creelan Jenner & Block Catherine J. Douglass InMotion Katherine B. Forrest Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP David Gelfand Milbank Richard Girgenti KPMG LLP Howard A. Glickstein Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Abbe R. Gluck Columbia Law School Dean Thomas F. Guernsey Albany Law School Robert Haig Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Lawrence O. Kamin Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Robert Kaufman Proskauer Rose LLP David Kelley Cahill Gordon & Reindel Alfreida B. Kenny, Esq. John J. Kirby Jr. Latham & Watkins Glenn Lau-Kee Koo Larrabee Lau-Kee & Lane Harlan Levy Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP Douglass B. Maynard Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Thomas McC Souther Sidley Austin LLP E. Leo Milonas Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Whitman Hon. Milton Mollen Herrick Feinstein

Daniel R. Murdock Patton Boggs Muriel Neufeld Nassau County Court Monitors Arthur B. Newman The Blackstone Group Robert C. Newman Legal Aid Society Alan I. Raylesberg Chadbourne & Parke Roy L. Reardon Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Benjamin Rosenberg Dechert LLP Alan Rosenthal Center for Community Alternatives Jeffrey Rosenthal Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Charles A. Ross Charles A. Ross & Associates LLC Jay Safer Lord Bissell & Brook LLP Catherine Samuels Sharon Schneier Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Donald D. Shack Blank Rome Saul B. Shapiro Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler Margaret L. Shaw ADR Associates/JAMS John Siegal Baker & Hostetler LLP Richard H. Silberberg Dorsey & Whitney William C. Silverman Greenberg Traurig LLP Thomas Souther Sidley Austin LLP Amelia Starr Davis Polk & Wardwell Michael J.D. Sweeney Law Office of Dan Getman Eric Tirschwell Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Jim Walden Gibson Dunn Anne C. Vladeck Vladeck, Waldman, Ellias & Engelhardt PC Michael Weinstein Ark Restaurants Cynthia Weissblum Rivera Edwin Gould Foundation *Affiliations for identification purposes only.