Former Human Rights First Principals and Staff

Human Rights First staff and principals list of previous years

2006 Directors

• William D. Zabel (Chair) Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
• Kenneth R. Feinberg (Vice-Chair) The Feinberg Group LLP
• Robert D. Joffe (Vice-Chair) Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP
• Lynda Clarizio (Treasurer) Advertising.com
• A. Whitney Ellsworth (Secretary) Publishing Consultant
• M. Bernard Aidinoff - Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Tom A. Bernstein - Chelsea Piers Management Inc.
• Raymond M. Brown - Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis
• Craig Cogut - Pegasus Investors, L.P.
• Donald Francis Donovan - Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Gail Furman - Psychologist, NYU School of Medicine
• Leslie Gimbel - Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation
• R. Scott Greathead - Wiggin & Dana LLP
• Myrna K. Greenberg - Founder, City Lights Youth Theatre
• Louis Henkin - Columbia University School of Law
• John D. Hutson - President and Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Ret. Rear Admiral, JAGC, USN
• Lewis B. Kaden - Vice Chairman, CAO, Citigroup Inc.
• Juliette Kayyem - Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard University
• Kerry Kennedy - RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights
• Harold Hongju Koh - Dean, Yale Law School
• Philip A. Lacovara - Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
• Jo Backer Laird - Christie's Inc.
• Robert Todd Lang - Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
• Michael K. Rozen - The Feinberg Group LLP
• Barbara A. Schatz - Columbia University, School of Law
• Steven R. Shapiro - American Civil Liberties Union
• George A. Vradenburg - The Vradenburg Foundation
• Sigourney Weaver - Actor

2006

Former Directors and Personnel (2005-2006)

William D. Zabel — Chair	Tom A. Bernstein — President	James Ziglar, Sr — Treasurer
Barbara A. Schatz — Secretary	M. Bernard Aidinoff	Raymond M. Brown
Lynda Clarizio	Craig Cogut	Donald Francis Donovan
A. Whitney Ellsworth	Kenneth R. Feinberg	Leslie Gimbel
R. Scott Greathead	Louis Henkin	Robert D. Joffe
Lewis B. Kaden	Juliette Kayyem	Kerry Kennedy
Harold Hongju Koh	Philip A. Lacovara	Jo Backer Laird
Robert Todd Lang	Steven R. Shapiro	George A. Vradenburg
Sigourney Weaver	Marvin E. Frankel(1920 – 2002) — Chairman Emeritus	Michael H. Posner — Executive Director

National Council

• Chair - Talbot D'Alemberte - Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
• Robert L. Bernstein - New York, NY,
• Jeffrey L. Bleich - Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA
• Derek Bok - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• David Brink - Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN
• James J. Brosnahan - Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA
• James P. Clark - Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Century City, CA
• Benjamin Civiletti - Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD
• William K. Coblentz - Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, San Francisco, CA
• Jerome B. Falk, Jr. - Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC, San Francisco, CA
• Frances Farenthold - Houston, TX
• Larry A. Hammond - Osborn Maledon, Phoenix, AZ
• Mark Harrison - Osborn Maledon, Phoenix, AZ
• Donald Hubert - The Hubert Law Group, Chicago, IL
• Paul H. Irving - Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, CA
• Helene Kaplan - Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY
• John W. Keker - Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, CA
• Robert Kerrigan - Kerrigan Estess Rankin & McLeod LLP, Pensacola, FL
• Paul Liebenson - Tellabs Inc., Northbrook, IL
• Abner J. Mikva - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Samuel R. Miller - Folger Levin & Kahn LLP, San Francisco, CA
• Patrick G. Moran - Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL
• Steven A. Nissen - Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, CA
• Duane C. Quaini - Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL
• Bruce Rabb - Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY
• Randall S. Rapp - Chicago, IL
• W. Reece Smith - Carlton Fields Ward Emmanuel Smith & Cutler, Tampa, FL
• Jerold S. Solovy - Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL
• Rose Styron - Roxbury, CT
• Stephen D. Susman - Susman Godfrey LLP, Houston, TX
• Steven T. Walther - Walther Key Maupin Oats Cox & LeGoy, Reno, NV
• Michael W. Zavis - Katten Munchin & Zavis, Chicago, IL

Source

• Makau Mutua former Director of their Africa Project
• Susan Rappaport - former director
• Melvin Washington
• Jack David, cofounder
• Camille Massey - former director of communications