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NATIONAL STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL PROGRAM

Charities Law Conference, March 28-29, 2008

Panelist Bios

Allen, Richard

Richard C. Allen is a partner at the Boston law firm of Casner & Edwards, LLP, where he specializes in nonprofit corporate, regulatory, tax exemption, foundation and trust matters. Mr. Allen is Co-Chair of the State & Local Regulation Subcommittee of the ABA’s Exempt Organizations Committee. He has served as an elected member of the BBA Board of Directors, as Chair of the Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee, and as Co-Chair of the Health Law Section. Mr. Allen is also a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Colleges & Universities Section and Corporate Law Committee and the Board of Trustees of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE).

Prior to joining Casner & Edwards, Mr. Allen was counsel at the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart and served as Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Division of Public Charities in the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. He was a president of the National Association of State Charity Officials and a recipient of the National Association of Attorneys General award for national achievement. Mr. Allen is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Indiana University. He is a frequent lecturer at programs and seminars sponsored by bar associations, continuing legal education organizations, and other Massachusetts, regional and national organizations.

Alvarado, Audrey

Dr. Audrey R. Alvarado is the Executive Director of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA). NCNA envisions a world that supports nonprofits in their missions with the essential resources they need and deserve. NCNA is working toward that future in two ways: first by advocating for and raising awareness of the nonprofit sector at the national level - voicing its concerns, needs, and value; and second, by strengthening the capacity of its state associations to offer leadership and essential services to nonprofits at the local level. Under her guidance, NCNA and the state association network have grown in influence and impact at the national, state and local level. NCNA is the convening organization for the Nonprofit Congress, an unprecedented initiative to unite nonprofits and strengthen the charitable sector.

Prior to her appointment she served as the associate dean for student and external affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver Graduate School of Public Affairs. Among other duties, she oversaw the nonprofit management academic areas for both master and doctoral students. Prior to her appointment as associate dean she served as Special Assistant to the Chancellor at the University overseeing areas such as affirmative action and the graduate school. She has also served as Executive Director of the Latin American Research and Service Agency in Denver, CO and Program Director of the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation's Talent Search program in Boston, MA.

Dr. Alvarado has extensive experience as a board member, often serving in key leadership positions. Previous board service includes the National Council of La Raza (chair), the Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations (chair), Regis University Trustee, Latin American Youth Center, Community Resource Center, Colorado Women’s Foundation, Colorado Women’s Forum, and Rocky Mountain PBS. Current board activities include the Foundation Center, BoardSource, and Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Advisory Committee.

Her political appointments include Governor Roy Romer’s (CO) representative on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (chair), the Immigration and Control Act (IRCA) State Committee (co-chair) and the Minority Economic Business Opportunity Task Force (co-chair).

Dr. Alvarado was recognized in 2001-2004 and 2006-2007 by The NonProfit Times as a member of the Power and Influence Top 50, an annual list of “leaders who are shaping the nonprofit world.” Her byline in the 2006 issue stated, “Nonprofits at the state level are doing the sector’s heavy lifting and Alvarado leads the umbrella organization for them all. She also is leveraging that clout with [the] Nonprofit Congress in Washington, D.C., later this year.”

Atkinson, Robert E.

Rob Atkinson received his undergraduate degree in history and philosophy from Washington and Lee in 1979 and his law degree from Yale in 1982. After clerking a year for Judge Donald S. Russell on the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., with the firm of Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan. In 1987 he joined the faculty of law at Florida State University, where he is now Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell Professor of Law. His specialties are professional responsibility, property, and nonprofit organizations.

Ayotte, Kelly A.

Kelly Ayotte is the first woman to serve as Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire. Ms. Ayotte graduated from the Pennsylvania State University (with honors) in 1990 with a B.A. in Political Science, and graduated from the Villanova University School of Law in 1993, where she served as Executive Editor of the Environmental Law Journal. Ms. Ayotte is a member of the New Hampshire and Maine bars. After law school, Ms. Ayotte spent one year as a law clerk to the Honorable Sherman D. Horton, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Following her clerkship, Ms Ayotte worked from 1994 to 1998 as a litigation associate in the Manchester law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, where she litigated complex civil, commercial and criminal defense cases, including court appointed representation in the matter of U.S. v. Burke, a three month jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire involving RICO, conspiracy, robbery, carjacking and firearms offenses.

Ms. Ayotte joined the Office of the Attorney General in 1998 as a prosecutor in the Criminal Bureau, where she handled white collar, public integrity and homicide cases. She became a member of the Homicide Unit where she tried numerous homicide cases and was responsible for dozens of death investigations throughout the State of New Hampshire. She was appointed a Senior Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Homicide Unit in 2000, where she was responsible for the most complex homicide cases, including the case of State v. Parker and State v. Tulloch, in which she successfully prosecuted two defendants for the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors. In February of 2003, Ms. Ayotte left the Attorney General's Office to serve as legal counsel for Governor Craig Benson at the beginning of his term. In July of 2003, she was appointed Deputy Attorney General where she served until July of 2004 when she was appointed Attorney General.

Ms. Ayotte is a past recipient of the Robert E. Kirby Award presented by the New Hampshire Bar Foundation to an attorney 35 years or younger who demonstrates the traits of civility, courtesy, perspective and excellent advocacy. She was recognized by New Hampshire Magazine in 2004 as one of the State's remarkable women and she was selected as one of the 40 leaders in New Hampshire under the age of 40, by the Manchester, N.H. Union Leader in 2002. New Hampshire Business Magazine most recently named her as one of New Hampshire's 10 Most Powerful People. Ms. Ayotte is a native of New Hampshire. She resides in Nashua, New Hampshire with her husband, Joseph Daley, and daughter, Katherine.

Bjorklund, Victoria B.

Victoria Bjorklund is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where she heads the Firm’s Exempt Organizations Group. She advises public charities, private foundations, boards, and donors.

In 2001, Ms. Bjorklund was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to serve as one of six exempt-organization members on the IRS’s Tax Exempt/Government Entities Advisory Committee and served as Chair for 2004-2005. In June 2005, she received the IRS Tax Exempt Division Commissioner’s Award for “ground-breaking service” to the Advisory Committee.

Ms. Bjorklund as named a David Rockefeller Fellow for 1997-1998 as a rising civic leader in New York City. From 1989 through 2001, she served as a director, secretary and still serves as pro bono legal counsel for Doctors Without Borders, the emergency medical relief organization that was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize. She is also a director of and pro bono counsel for the Robin Hood Foundation. She chaired the ABA Tax Section Committee on Exempt Organizations from 2001 through 2003 and now serves as Co-Chair of the Subcommittee on International Philanthropy. Ms. Bjorklund was honored in May 2002 as ABA Tax Section “Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year” in recognition of her 9/11 work. She also accepted the “Pro Bono Firm of the Year” award from the NYS Bar Association in recognition of the Firm’s 9/11 work. The Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York City and Lawyers Alliance of New York, Inc. honored Ms. Bjorklund for her outstanding volunteer service in responding to the legal needs arising from September 11. In 2003, she received the Commissioner’s Award, the highest honor the Commissioner of Internal Revenue can bestow, for her “timely, creative and nimble response to 9/11’s unprecedented legal challenges.” In 2005, she received the Assistant Commissioner’s Award for her contributions to the IRS Advisory Committee. In 2006, Ms. Bjorklund was appointed to the Board of Trustees, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Ms. Bjorklund speaks and writes frequently on exempt-organization subjects. Every year since 1989 she has spoken at the ALI-ABA Charitable Giving Program on “Choosing Among Private Foundations, Supporting Organizations, and Donor-Advised Funds,” a topic she also addresses at the annual Georgetown Conference. She is the co-author with Jim Fishman and Dan Kurtz of New York Nonprofit Law and Practice (LexisNexis, 2d Ed. 2007).

She earned her J.D. at Columbia University School of Law, a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University, and a B.A. magna cum laude from Princeton University, where she graduated in three years and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Bjorklund is a former member of the Firm’s Pro Bono Committee and in 2006, she was appointed co-chair of the Diversity Committee.

Brody, Evelyn

Evelyn Brody is a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, having visited at Penn, Duke, and NYU law schools. She teaches courses on tax and nonprofit law. Evelyn is chair-elect of the Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Section, Association of American Law Schools. She has worked in private practice and with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy, and served as secretary of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section from 2003-2005.

Evelyn is the Reporter of the American Law Institute’s Project on Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. She is also associate scholar with The Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, assisting in organizing semi-annual seminars on Emerging Issues in Philanthropy, sponsored jointly with Harvard’s Hauser Center.

A prolific author of law review articles and book chapters, Evelyn’s recent publications include: The Board of Nonprofit Organizations: Puzzling Through the Gaps Between Law and Practice, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 521 (2007); From the Dead Hand to the Living Dead: The Conundrum of Charitable-Donor Standing, 41 Georgia L. Rev. 1183 (2007); The States’ Growing Use of a Quid-Pro-Quo Rationale for the Charity Property Tax Exemption, 56 Exempt Org. Tax Rev. 269 (June 2007); and Business Activities of Nonprofit Organizations: Legal Boundary Problems, in Nonprofits and Business: A New World of Innovation and Adaptation (C. Eugene Steuerle & Joseph J. Cordes, eds.) (The Urban Institute, forthcoming).

Evelyn served as a member of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector’s expert advisory group, and was an invited presenter to Senate Finance Committee Staff Roundtables in 2004 and 2006. She appeared as a panelist on the “Attorney General Authority and Role” at the Conference on State Attorney General Oversight and Regulation of Charitable Organizations (Columbia Law School’s Conference of Attorneys General, February 24, 2006), and currently serves as an advisory board member of Columbia Law School’s Charities Law Project. In Fall 2006 Evelyn joined the board of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance.

Chapnick, Ellen

Ellen P. Chapnick is the Dean for Social Justice Initiatives at Columbia Law School. Her responsibilities include development and implementation of projects that will further Columbia's excellence in preparing the public interest, government and human rights lawyers of the future and projects for Columbia's participation in capacity building in the U.S. and abroad regarding democratic governmental institutions, legal education and civil society. Dean Chapnick joined Columbia as the founder and Dean of its Center for Public Interest Law in 1993 and held that position until July 2003. She also co-teaches the Appellate Court Externship. Prior to Columbia, she was a federal litigator at Wolf Popper Ross Wolf & Jones, a plaintiffs' law firm where, among other matters, she worked on In re Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation, for which she and her co-counsel shared TLPJ's 1995 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. She also had been a staff attorney at the Puerto Rican Institute for Civil Rights in San Juan and at various labor unions. Dean Chapnick is an honor graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences. Her recent pro bono work includes serving as: President of Legal Services for New York-Bronx; chair and immediate past chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities; and president and immediate past president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Dean Chapnick also has served as Co-Chair of the Court as Employer Committee of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts and on several committees of the New York City Bar Association. Dean Chapnick has received the Association of American Law Schools' Father Robert F. Drinan award, Sanctuary for Families' Abely Pro Bono Achievement Award, Legal Aid Society of New York's award for outstanding pro bono publico service and the Pro Bono Students America award for best Law School public interest program. She is the author of several articles and the Access to the Courts chapter in the American Bar Association's The Law of Environmental Justice.

Corbett, Tom

In 2004, Tom Corbett was elected to serve as Pennsylvania's chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General.

Since taking office in January 2005, Attorney General Corbett has worked to improve the safety of every Pennsylvanian by fighting illegal drugs; arresting Internet child predators; protecting seniors; defending consumers and safeguarding the environment. He also created the Public Corruption Unit, dedicated to investigating and prosecuting corruption cases involving state officials and government employees.

Tom began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Allegheny County. He also served as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and once before as Attorney General.

Throughout the years, Tom has been an advisor to U.S. Presidents and Governors. He has also worked in the private sector, formed his own law firm, and served our country in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.

A life-long Pennsylvania resident, Tom married his college sweetheart, Susan. They are the proud parents of two children: Tom, a video game producer and Katherine, a prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney's office.

Dale, Harvey P.

Harvey P. Dale is University Professor of Philanthropy and the Law and the Director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU. He has been a member of the faculty of the New York University School of Law since 1977, for the last 15 years teaching primarily in the field of nonprofit organizations. Professor Dale is Founding President and a Director of The Atlantic Philanthropies and was for approximately 20 years (until September 1, 2001) the President and CEO of the Atlantic Foundation. Prof. Dale also serves as a member of the Investment Committee of the Atlantic Philanthropies, and was a member of the Trustees Investment Committee of Cornell University from 1996 to 2005. In 2007, he was named a Presidential Councillor by the Cornell University Board of Trustees. He was, from 2001 to 2007, a member of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Law School. He serves as a Director, Trustee, President, or Chair of various charitable organizations both in the U.S. and abroad, and as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s project on “Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations.” He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Dale received his B.A. degree from Cornell University and his J.D. degree from Harvard University.

DeLucia, Michael

Michael DeLucia is a Senior Assistant Attorney General and the Director of Charitable Trusts at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He serves as the executive editor of the New Hampshire Bar Journal. He has served as a speaker on charitable trust issues, including governance issues, fiduciary duties, excessive compensation and nonprofit healthcare issues, for the American Bar Association, the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Association for Fundraising Professionals, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), the Harvard University School of Public Health and the New Hampshire Bar Association. He served as co-chair of the “Excellence in Governance Project,” together with Lewis Feldstein, the President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

Fishman, James

James J. Fishman is a Professor of Law at Pace Law School in White Plains. He received bachelors’ and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. He has been an assistant attorney general in the Litigation Bureau of the New York Attorney General’s Office, and the executive director of two nonprofit organizations, the Council of New York Law Associates (since renamed The Lawyers Alliance for New York) and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Professor Fishman is the author of The Faithless Fiduciary, a historical study which examines the enduring problem of opportunistic behavior by charitable fiduciaries, and the inability to create an effective system of oversight or accountability for charitable assets. He is coauthor (with Victoria B. Bjorklund and Daniel L. Kurtz) of New York Nonprofit Law and Practice with Tax Analysis (LexisNexis 2d ed. 2007), and Cases and Materials on Nonprofit Organizations (with Stephen Schwarz), (Foundation Press, 3rd ed. 2006 & 2007 Supp.). He has written law review articles on nonprofit law, education, and international securities regulation, and teaches contracts, corporations, and nonprofit organizations. Professor Fishman is a member of two nonprofit boards: Opus 118 The Harlem School of Music, and the Cornwall Foundation.

Floch, Julie

Julie Floch CPA is a partner and Director of Not-For-Profit Services at Eisner LLP, a member of the American Institute of CPAs Not-for-Profit Organizations Expert Panel , and a frequent moderator and panelist for a variety of its courses. Julie served on the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities. She is on the board of the Council of Community Services of New York State, is an advisor to the Frances L. & Edwin L. Cummings Memorial Fund, is on the audit committee of the Sargent Shriver National Center for Poverty Law, and has chaired the finance and audit committees of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Julie is an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College, and has also taught not-for-profit management at the New School University

Fremont-Smith, Marion R.

Marion R. Fremont-Smith is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University where she is directing a research study on Governance and Accountability of Nonprofit Organizations. Her book, Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation, was published in May, 2004 by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. She has published two studies of conversions, a survey of press reports of wrongdoing by directors and officers of charities in the The Exempt Organization Tax Review and numerous other papers on government regulation of nonprofit organizations.

Mrs. Fremont-Smith?s interest in nonprofit organizations began in the 1960's when she served as Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Division of Public Charities in Massachusetts. She next served as a research director for Russell Sage Foundation, conducting two major studies in philanthropy, "Foundations and Government: State and Federal Law and Supervision," and "Philanthropy and the Business Corporation," published in 1964 and 1966 respectively by the Foundation. In 1964 she joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart where she was elected partner in 1971, a position she held until 1997 when she became Senior Counsel and joined the Hauser Center. She retired from the firm in 2003 to devote her time to her research.

In her legal practice Mrs. Fremont-Smith specialized in the nonprofit area and continued to write and lecture. She served on the boards of Independent Sector, the Council on Foundations and the Foundation Center, and as chairman of the Exempt Organization Committee of the American Bar Association's Tax Section. She was a member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Group on Exempt Organizations, the Practitioner Liaison Committee of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law Study Group on Trusts.

Mrs. Fremont-Smith is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Bar Foundation and the American College of Tax Counsel and a former member of the American Academy of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is an Advisor to the American Law Institute project on Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Program on Philanthropy and the Law at New York University Law School. She also serves as director of a number of national and state charitable organizations, as well as a member of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Public Charities and a trustee of the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.

Mrs. Fremont-Smith received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1948 and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1951.

Gary, Susan

Susan Gary is a Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Columbia University. Before entering academia she practiced with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, and with DeBandt, van Hecke & Lagae in Brussels. Her teaching and research interests include nonprofit organizations, trusts and estates, estate and gift tax, and estate planning. She has written about the definition of family for inheritance purposes, the regulation of charities, and the use of mediation to resolve disputes in probate and during the estate planning process.

Prof. Gary served as Reporter for the Drafting Committee to revise the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act, a project of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She is currently an ABA advisor to two other uniform law projects, one on Transfer-on-Death Deeds and one on the regulation of charities. Prof. Gary is a member of the Advisory Board of the NYU National Center on Philanthropy and the Law and is active in the Association of American Law Schools (currently on the Executive Committee of the Nonprofit Law and Philanthropy Section), the American Bar Association (currently co-chair of the Uniform Laws Committee of the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section), and the Oregon State Bar (currently editor of the Estate Planning Newsletter and Treasurer of the Estate Planning Section). Prof. Gary is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Goldman, Karin Kunstler

Karin Kunstler Goldman is a Section Chief in the New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau. Her current duties include enforcement of statutory obligations of charities, public education projects and legislative drafting.

Karin was the 2001-2002 president of the National Association of State Charity Officials, is a founding member of the GovernanceMatters! and serves on the advisory board of the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics. From 2003 to 2007 she served on the advisory board of New York University’s National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. Prior to joining the Attorney General's office, Karin was a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow and a staff attorney at South Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation.

As an Eisenhower Exchange Fellow in Hungary, Karin worked with not-for-profit organizations, government officials and legislative drafters in developing the law and regulations affecting the non-profit sector. She has consulted with government officials and legislative drafters in Ukraine and China on the development of statutory regulation of charitable organizations in those countries. In 2007, Karin was a guest of the People’s Republic of China at its International Symposium on Charity Legislation in China at which she was a speaker.

Karin and her husband, Neal, spent two years as Peace Corps volunteers in Senegal, West Africa. They have two grown children. Karin has a law degree from Rutgers University Law School, a BA from Connecticut College, and an MA from Columbia University.

Goldschmid, Harvey

Harvey J. Goldschmid is Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia University. He has served as Dwight Professor since 1984, and was an Assistant Professor (1970-71), an Associate Professor (1971-73), and a Professor of Law (1973-84) at Columbia. He is also Senior Counsel at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. From 2002-05, Professor Goldschmid served as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and in 1998-99, he was the SEC’s General Counsel (chief legal officer); from January 1 to July 15, 2000, he was Special Senior Advisor to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt.

Professor Goldschmid has been a frequent lecturer at national and international legal programs and conferences, and during the 2005-07 academic years, served as a Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, as Citigroup Distinguished Fellow in Ethics and Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and as a Business Law Advisor for the ABA Section of Business Law (“a distinguished leader of the profession” who will share “wisdom and experience with members of the Section”). He received: the 2004 Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social Responsibility from Columbia University (honoring an attorney who puts his “legal skills to work for the public good”); the 1999 Chairman’s Award for Excellence from the SEC; and several teaching awards, including Columbia Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching in both 1996 and 1997.

From 1980-93, Professor Goldschmid served as a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations. In 2000-01, he served as Chair of the Nominating Committee, and in 1998, completed a term as Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee (i.e., Board of Directors) of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where Professor Goldschmid previously served as Chair of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Committee on Securities Regulation, and Chair of the Committee on Antitrust and Trade Regulation. He also has served as Chair of the Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the Association of American Law Schools and as Founding Director of Columbia University’s Center for Law and Economic Studies. In 1997-98, Professor Goldschmid was a consultant on antitrust policy to the Federal Trade Commission, and in 1995-96, was a member of the FTC’s Task Force on High Tech/Innovation Issues. He now serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Greenwall Foundation, as a Public Governor of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as a Director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, as a Director of Transparency International-USA, and on the Governing Board of the Center for Audit Quality. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Yale’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance and on the International Advisory Board of the Israel Securities Authority.

Professor Goldschmid received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Columbia Law School in 1965 and a B.A., also magna cum laude, from Columbia College in 1962. He was Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is the author of numerous publications on corporate, securities, and antitrust law.

Johns, Belinda

Belinda Johns is the Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Charitable Trusts Section in the California Attorney General’s Office.

Ms. Johns has been a member of the Charitable Trusts Section since 1989. As Senior Assistant, she is the statewide head of the Section. From 1989 until late 2004, Ms. Johns specialized in the civil prosecution of charity and charitable solicitation fraud. During that time period she also served as the liaison between the Attorney General’s office and local law enforcement agencies to assist in the detection and prosecution of charitable solicitation fraud and was responsible for enforcement of the Attorney General's charitable fundraising registration program. Ms. Johns is a past president of the National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) and is active in charitable trust issues at the national level.

Jones, Hugh R.

Hugh R. Jones has served with the Hawaii Attorney General’s office for 18 years and is a Supervising Deputy Attorney in the Tax Division of the Hawaii Attorney General's office. Jones' Division provides regulatory oversight over 4,500 public charities, charitable trusts, and private foundations in Hawaii. The Division also provides regulatory oversight over professional solicitors and fundraising counsel and enforces Hawaii's charitable solicitation law, and provides all of the legal services need by the Department of Taxation. Jones was one of three attorneys that investigated and prosecuted claims for removal and surcharge against the former trustees of the Bishop Estate, then a $6.2 billion charitable trust. Jones has drafted amendments to the State's nonprofit corporation and charitable solicitation laws to strengthen the State's oversight of charities and charitable solicitors. Jones graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1986 and has served as a director of the Hawaii State Bar Association since 2002 and is the current President of the National Association of State Charity Officials. Jones is the 2007 recipient of the Hawaii State Bar Association's President's Award, the 1996 recipient of Common Cause Hawaii's Public Service Award, and a four-time recipient of the Attorney General's Sustained Superior Performance Award. Jones is a frequent speaker and faculty member at conferences and seminars devoted to nonprofit governance and regulatory matters.

Lott, Cindy M.

Cindy M. Lott is a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School and clerked for the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Lott served as Chief Counsel to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston and was Deputy Counsel to the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Lott has worked at large firms in several major cities. In addition, she served as Chief Counsel for Advisory Services in the Indiana Attorney General's office, and prior to that position was Section Chief for Administrative and Regulatory Litigation in that office as well. Her areas of practice have included constitutional, administrative and regulatory, business fraud, compliance, and employment litigation and advisory issues.

Currently a visiting clinical professor at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, she is the developer and director of the school’s new Nonprofit Legal Clinic. In 2006 and 2007, she was a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, co-teaching an advanced research seminar on state attorneys general, and now serves as an adjunct research scholar at Columbia on charities regulation.Lott’s current private practice focuses on legal strategy for national advocacy groups and non-profit organizations, particularly with respect to attorney general and state policy issues. Lott is admitted to practice in District of Columbia, Indiana and Massachusetts.

Lynch, Patrick C.

Sworn into office on January 7, 2003, Patrick C. Lynch became the 72nd person to hold the office of Attorney General since its inception in 1650. A former State prosecutor, he has made reducing juvenile crime the centerpiece of his administration, believing that the career criminals of tomorrow start off as the youth offenders of today. “No serious discussion about Rhode Island’s quality of life or economic health can exclude issues such as bullying, truancy, school violence, and the accessibility of guns in our communities,” he says.

Since taking office, Attorney General Lynch has had a strong voice in the shaping of legislation aimed at strengthening the state's criminal justice system, advancing the rights of victims, and affording additional protections to consumers. In the past two legislative sessions, he has successfully lobbied for passage of his bills strengthening drunken-driving laws, linking school attendance rates with teenagers' driving privileges, enhancing school safety plans, and penalizing adults who buy alcohol for minors.

Through his “Toy Gun Bash” program, Lynch has stressed the importance of gun-safety awareness throughout Rhode Island. He has emphasized community prosecution, pairing a State prosecutor with the personnel of each of the Providence Police Department’s nine neighborhood precincts, to ensure timely and effective prosecution of crimes such as breaking and entering, larceny, assault, robbery, and drug-related offenses.

The Attorney General has visited a school a week-making 55 such visits in the 2003-2004 academic year-to speak to children about making good choices in their lives. “Talking to kids in their classrooms is better than prosecuting them in our courtrooms,” the Attorney General tells parent and teacher groups. He has also been an unwavering advocate for the Rhode Island Judiciary’s anti-truancy and anti-drug initiatives, the Truancy and Drug Courts. In August 2005, the New England Association of Drug Court Professionals presented Attorney General Lynch with its President’s Award for his “support of drug courts and their graduates.”

As a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1994 to 1999, Attorney General Lynch prosecuted cases at every level of Rhode Island’s criminal justice system and led the State’s prosecution of gang-related offenses. He won three major trials, and obtained five murder convictions, in Superior Court in 1999. He worked for one of Rhode Island’s top law firms until the 2002 election, which capped his first campaign for public office.

Ormiston, Tam

Tam Ormiston joined Iowa's Consumer Protection Division in 1978 and became the director of its Farm Division in 1983. He took a leave of absence from the Attorney General’s Office in 1988 to become a consultant for the Korea office of The Asia Foundation, where he served as advisor to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Supreme Court, and the newly-formed Constitutional Court. Mr. Ormiston stayed in Seoul as the Korea Representative for the Foundation and as a law consultant to its fifteen field offices. In 1994 he founded its Russia and Central Asia programs and served as the Law Advisor for the Foundation in its headquarters in San Francisco. He returned to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office in 1998 as Chief Policy Deputy Attorney General, where he has served as the Consumer Advocate for the State of Iowa and oversaw the Consumer Protection Division and the Department of Human Services/ Board of Regents Division. He has served in a variety of capacities since then. Mr. Ormiston received the Marvin Award from the National Association of Attorneys General. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Law, where he simultaneously earned a Master’s Degree in American Studies. He also participated in a joint Fulbright program at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.

Oshiro, Carl

Carl Oshiro has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1978 and has served as an Administrative Law Judge with the California Department of Insurance, Legal Advisor to the President of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and Director of Special Projects for the West Coast Regional Office of Consumers Union. He has served as Public Member and Chair of the California Telecommunications Education Trust (TET). Created by the CPUC, the TET made over $16 million in grants to nonprofit organizations to inform California consumers about telecommunications services and policy options. Since 2003, he has been involved in the due diligence review of the over 1,000 Letters of Inquiry and 146 Grant Applications submitted to the Vitamin, Salton, Mylan, and Taxol settlement funds.

Owens, Marcus

Carl Oshiro has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1978 and has served as an Administrative Law Judge with the California Department of Insurance, Legal Advisor to the President of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and Director of Special Projects for the West Coast Regional Office of Consumers Union. He has served as Public Member and Chair of the California Telecommunications Education Trust (TET). Created by the CPUC, the TET made over $16 million in grants to nonprofit organizations to inform California consumers about telecommunications services and policy options. Since 2003, he has been involved in the due diligence review of the over 1,000 Letters of Inquiry and 146 Grant Applications submitted to the Vitamin, Salton, Mylan, and Taxol settlement funds.

McGrath, Mike

Mike McGrath was elected as Montana’s 19th attorney general in November 2000. As a five-term county attorney for Lewis and Clark County, McGrath brings extensive experience in criminal prosecution and local government issues to the office. During his 18 years as a prosecutor, McGrath focused on family violence issues, including sexual assault of children and domestic abuse.

McGrath attended public schools in Butte and graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in 1970. After two years in the U.S. Air Force, he attended Gonzaga University Law School, graduating in 1975. He then served as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer fellow in Reno, Nevada, for a year, providing legal services to low income individuals and families.

McGrath returned to Montana in 1977, working as an assistant attorney general for the next six years.

McGrath is active in a wide range of community and legal organizations. He has served as a board member of the Friendship Center, a domestic violence shelter in Helena, for many years. He also has been actively involved on the boards of Big Brothers, Big Sisters, the Montana Council for Families, the Montana chapter of the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, and the Helena Youth Basketball Association.

In addition, McGrath has served on the boards of and assumed leadership positions within the Montana County Attorneys Association, the Montana Legal Services Association, the Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Advisory Council and the Montana Criminal Justice Information Advisory Committee.

Mike and his wife Joy have two sons, Pat and Chris, and a granddaughter, Alexis.

McKenna, Robert

Rob McKenna is Washington's 17th Attorney General, elected for his first term in November 2004. As the state's chief legal officer, he provides legal services to roughly 230 state agencies, boards and commissions. Since taking office, he has won both cases he has argued before the United States Supreme Court. His ongoing policy priorities are community safety, consumer protection and government accountability.

McKenna received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988, where he was a member of the Law Review. He earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in International Studies, both with honors, from the University of Washington where he was student body president and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. McKenna, his wife Marilyn and their four children reside in Bellevue. For more information:

Ormstedt, David E.

David E. Ormstedt was an Assistant Attorney General in Connecticut (1976-2002) where he established and managed the Public Charities Unit, which administers and enforces state law governing the raising, stewardship and expenditure of charitable assets. He also served on advisory committees to the Internal Revenue Service, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance and National Charities Information Bureau. He has often testified before the Connecticut General Assembly and the United States Congress and is frequently invited to speak and write on nonprofit legal, governance and management issues. He is a member of the Panel’s Oversight and Self-Regulation Working Group, which was convened by Independent Sector at the request of the U. S. Senate Finance Committee to advise on the most sweeping proposed legislation affecting the nonprofit sector since 1969. HE has extensive knowledge of the nonprofit legal environment including federal laws, the laws of various states and best practices. The NonProfit Times named him as one of the “National Power and Influence Top 50” in 1998, 1999, and 2001. He received both his J.D. and his B.A. from the University of Connecticut.

Pacella, Mark

Mr. Pacella received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in April of 1981, his J.D. from the Antioch School of Law in May of 1984, and he was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in November of that year. He maintained a general law practice for three years before joining the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General in November of 1987 as a staff attorney within its Charitable Trusts and Organizations section. He has served as the chief of that section, which performs the Attorney General’s supervisory role over property committed to charitable purposes, since September of 1999. Mr. Pacella is a Past-President of the National Association of State Charity Officials (“NASCO”), an affiliate of the National Association of Attorneys General, and has served on several NASCO committees. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Charitable Organizations, Government Lawyers, and Health Care Law Committees, and an honorably discharged veteran of the United States Navy after completing a four-year active duty enlistment in July of 1977.

Read, Pat

Pat Read is the Senior Vice President for public policy and government relations at Independent Sector where she leads efforts to shape legislation, regulations and policies affecting the health and vitality of philanthropy and nonprofit organizations. She also serves as the Project Director for the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, an independent panel convened by Independent Sector at the encouragement of the Senate Finance Committee to provide recommendations for actions by congress and the charitable community to strengthen the governance and oversight of charitable organizations. Pat joined Independent Sector in 2001 as the vice president for public affairs. Under her watch, Independent Sector has been in the front ranks of efforts to advance charitable giving tax incentives, protect the advocacy rights of nonprofits in battles with congress and the federal election commission, and address recent congressional proposals to reform the regulation and oversight of charitable nonprofits and philanthropic foundations.

Pat served as executive director of the Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations for eight years where she led the successful battle against a state ballot initiative that would have removed property tax exemption for Colorado nonprofits and reorganized the group’s for-profit subsidiary as a fully-licensed insurance agency for Colorado nonprofits. Previously, she served as the publications director and later Vice President of program services for the Foundation Center in New York City; Executive Director of the American Reading Council; and as the Marketing and Development Director of the Feminist Press, a nonprofit literary publisher. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including three years as the board chair of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations.

Reilly, Thomas

Thomas F. Reilly joined Greenberg Traurig in 2007 and has assembled a team of experienced professionals who are working with major companies to conduct sensitive investigations with integrity as well as develop solutions to matters involving state attorneys generals and other federal, state, regulatory and law enforcement agencies.

Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Tom served two terms as the Massachusetts Attorney General, from January 1999 through January 2007. As Attorney General, Tom was hands on, directly involved in major cases, investigations, and litigation with national impact in anti-trust, fraud, compliance and governance matters in healthcare, insurance, energy, environment, professional and collegiate sports and construction. While Attorney General, Tom personally led the investigation into the “Big Dig”, the largest public works project in American history.

Prior to his tenure as Attorney General, Tom served two terms as Middlesex District Attorney, where he prosecuted some of the most serious cases of violent crime and public corruption in Massachusetts state history.

Throughout his career in the public and private sectors, Tom has emphasized a proactive, results oriented approach to problem solving, insisting on the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior.

Tom Reilly is a graduate of Boston College Law School with a bachelor’s degree in economics from American International College.

Roth, Randall

Randall Roth teaches Federal Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Professional Responsibility, and Nonprofit Organizations at the University of Hawaii School of Law. He is an academic fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and currently serves as associate reporter for the Restatement (Third) of the Law of Trusts. In past years Roth has served as President of the Hawaii State Bar Association, Hawaii Justice Foundation, and Hawaii Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and has received numerous non-teaching awards, including Civic Leader of the Year in 1994, and again in 1997. In 2000 the Honolulu Star-Bulletin put Roth on its list of “100 Individuals Who Made a Difference in Hawaii during the 20th century,” and in 2005 the City of Honolulu’s Centennial Commission put him on its list of “100 Who Made Lasting Contributions During Honolulu’s First 100 Years.” In 2006, along with senior federal district court judge Samuel King, Roth wrote a book about the fabled Bishop Estate, Broken Trust, which the Hawaii Book Publishers Association named Hawaii’s 2007 Book of the Year. Professor Roth and Judge King have assigned all book royalties to charity.

Schizer, David M.

Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law

Dean Schizer became the 14th Dean of Columbia Law School on June 21, 2004. Before becoming dean, Dean Schizer was the Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law, teaching U.S. federal income taxation, the taxation of financial instruments, corporate tax, and a special course on transactions. More than perhaps any other scholar, Dean Schizer has studied the influence of tax on corporate governance, providing theoretical and technical insight into inefficiency and unfairness in the taxation of investments. In 2003, Dean Schizer received the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Dean Schizer was born in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving B.A. and M.A. degrees in history and subsequently a J.D. degree from Yale, Dean Schizer clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59. An interest in business and statutory analysis led him to the tax department of Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York, New York, where he practiced law before joining the Law School faculty in 1998.

Shimanski, Charles

Charley Shimanski joined the Colorado Nonprofit Association as President and Chief Executive Officer in October 2004. Since then, Shimanski has increased the organization’s role on public policy and advocacy matters, and led the development of important programs related to best practices and charitable giving. Since October 2004, the organization has doubled its budget and staff.

On advocacy issues, Shimanski has served on a Department of the Interior panel, and testified before several Colorado legislative committees on important policy matters. In his work with the media, Mr. Shimanski has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, and CNN and also appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.

With an economics degree from the University of Wisconsin, Shimanski started his career in banking at the United Bank of Denver and went on to work with OppenheimerFunds in Denver and Darlington Asset Management in Geneva, Switzerland and London England. Prior to joining the Colorado Nonprofit Association, Mr. Shimanski served as the executive director of The American Alpine Club in Golden, Colorado from 1993 to 2004.

An accomplished mountain climber, Mr. Shimanski is a 20 year veteran of the Alpine Rescue Team, a mountain search and rescue group in Evergreen, Colorado. He has participated on hundreds of rescues among Colorado's highest peaks, and is a frequent speaker at national and international rescue conferences.

Small, Jon

Jon Small was President and Executive Director from 2000-2005 of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, Inc. (NPCC), an umbrella organization with over 1300 members serving the nonprofit sector in the New York metropolitan area. He is currently NPCC’s Special Consultant for Government Relations He was for many years a partner of Debevoise & Plimpton, a global law firm based in New York City. He is a graduate of Brown and Harvard Law School and has an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and an LL.M. from New York University. His recent board service includes service as a director of the Human Services Council of New York City, Lawyers Alliance for New York, the U.S. Committee for the U.N. Population Fund, and Investor Responsibility Research Center, and service as an Overseer of the Fletcher School.

Snyder, Harry

Mr. Snyder has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1963. He has a long background and experience in cy pres relief, philanthropic best practices (including grant review and recommendations) and consumer protection. As the Director of the West Coast office of Consumers Union he established procedures, including modification of California's escheat laws, for the Court, in the case of People vs. Avco Finance, to authorize cy pres relief in class action cases. In the Levi Straus case he and Consumers Union went further, acting as Amicus, successfully arguing to the Court that the establishment of the California Consumer Protection Foundation was a proper exercise of the Court's equitable powers and an acceptable way to facilitate the distribution of cy pres relief in that case.

Another aspect of his work at Consumers Union was a national project that captured the public assets of non-profit health insurers and providers when they converted to for-profit corporations. That work helped regulators, community groups and Attorneys General establish Health Foundations to distribute these assets. This work, too, was based on an extension of cy pres principles as the next best use of these public funds. As a result of this work over 160 Health Foundations have been established nationally, with over $16 billion dollars in assets. The California Endowment and the Wellness Foundation are two examples of this work in California.

Mr. Snyder was appointed Cy Pres Fund Administrator for the Vitamin Anti-Trust Cases Consumer Settlement Fund by the San Francisco Superior Court. This Fund has over $45 million. In addition, he has contracted with the California Attorney General to assist in the distribution of the Salton settlement fund (George Forman Grill) $900,000; the Mylan settlement fund, $1.8 million and the Taxol settlement fund, $500,000. He has assisted plaintiff's counsel in the distribution of other cy pres settlements including the Marianas Fund working with the Tides Foundation.

Mr. Snyder teaches a graduate seminar in Health Policy Advocacy at University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. He started his legal career practicing business law in Los Angeles. He then was a Peace Corps Administrator in India and the Peace Corp Director in Western Samoa and then Nepal before joining Consumers Union.

Suthers, John

John W. Suthers is a lifetime resident of Colorado. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Government in 1974 and from the University of Colorado Law School in 1977. From 1977 to 1981, he served as a deputy and chief deputy district attorney in Colorado Springs. From September of 1979 to January of 1981, he headed the Economic Crime Division of the DA’s office and co-authored a nationally published book on consumer fraud and white-collar crime.

In January of 1981, Mr. Suthers entered private practice and became a litigation partner in the Colorado Springs firm of Sparks Dix, P.C. He remained with the firm until November of 1988, when he defeated an incumbent to be elected District Attorney of the Fourth Judicial District. He was elected to a second term as District Attorney in November of 1992. At the conclusion of that second term in January of 1997, he returned to Sparks Dix, P.C. as Senior Counsel in charge of the firm’s litigation section.

On January 12, 1999, Mr. Suthers was appointed Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections by Governor Bill Owens. As head of the Colorado correctional system, he was in charge of an organization with almost 6,000 employees and an annual operational budget of approximately $500 million.

On July 30, 2001, Mr. Suthers was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado. He was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Suthers represented the United States in all criminal and civil matters within the District of Colorado.

On January 4, 2005, Mr. Suthers was appointed Attorney General of Colorado. In November 2006, he won election to the Office of Attorney General by a large margin. As Attorney General, he represents and defends the interests of the People of the State of Colorado and is chief legal counsel and advisor to state government and its many state agencies, boards and commissions.

Mr. Suthers has served on the board of numerous civic organizations. He has served as President of the El Paso County Bar Association in 1990-91 and as Senior Vice President of the Colorado Bar Association in 1996-97. He served as President of the Colorado District Attorney’s Council in 1994-95. In 1992, he was appointed by the Colorado legislature to serve as a Colorado delegate to the National Conference on Uniform State Laws and served until January of 1997. In the Summer of 2000, Mr. Suthers received a Gates Foundation Fellowship to attend the Government Executives Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

John and his wife, Janet, have been married for 31 years and have two daughters, Alison, an attorney in Denver and Kate, a Lieutenant JG in the U. S. Navy.

In his tenure as Attorney General, Mr. Suthers has initiated successful programs to protect children from Internet predators and to reduce mortgage and foreclosure fraud. He chairs the statewide Methamphetamine Task Force. He serves as Co-Chair of the Criminal Law Committee and Task Force on School Safety for the National Association of Attorneys General and is a Member of the U.S. Attorney General’s Executive Working Group.

Staricka, Susan K.

Ms. Staricka is Chief of the Charitable Trusts Section, Consumer Protection-Public Health Division of the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas. She has served as an Assistant Attorney General in Charitable Trusts since July 1994 and as Chief of the Charitable Trusts Section since April 2001. From 1985 to 1994, Ms. Staricka was engaged by the Austin, Texas firm of Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline.. Ms. Staricka received her Juris Doctorate degree with honors from The University of Texas School of Law at Austin in 1985 and was admitted to the Texas bar the same year. She received her preparatory education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison earning a Bachelor of Arts with honors in 1980.

Ms. Staricka is a frequent speaker in the Texas nonprofit and legal community, including regular presentations at the annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute sponsored by the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, the annual Governance of Nonprofit Organizations Course sponsored by the Texas State Bar and the annual Legal and Accounting Institute sponsored by the Nonprofit Resource Center of Texas, in San Antonio. She has also participated as a guest speaker at the RJK School of Philanthropy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and is a regular speaker at the ACC Center for Community-Based and Nonprofit Organizations, both in Austin.

Outside of Texas, Ms. Staricka has presented at the Annual Conference for the National Association of State Charity Officials, an affiliate organization of the National Association of Attorneys General, and at the annual Conference for the Council on Foundations. Additionally, Ms. Staricka was selected to serve on the Advisory Council for Columbia Law School’s State Attorney General’s Program–Charities Law Project in New York City, New York, and is slated to be a presenter in Columbia’s upcoming Spring conference.

Tierney, James

James E. Tierney is the Director of the National State Attorneys General Program, at Columbia Law School, where he has also taught as a Lecturer-in-Law since the fall of 2000. Tierney served as the Attorney General of Maine from 1980 until 1990. He currently practices as a consultant to attorneys general and others regarding state regulatory structures and multi-state initiatives. Tierney is a graduate of the University of Maine and its School of Law. During his ten years as Attorney General of Maine, Tierney played an active role in the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), including service on NAAG's Executive Board and various committees. Both while in office and since he has left, Tierney has instructed newly elected state attorneys general on the effective performance of their office. Tierney has held a variety of special appointments, including serving as Special Counsel to the Attorney General of Florida, during the contested 2000 Presidential election; and membership on the Federal Trade Commission's Advisory Committee on On-Line Access and Security (2000). He has served as a Special Prosecutor in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Vermont and on behalf of NAAG has authored an analysis of the operations of state grand jury practice throughout the United States. Tierney has been a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School and has guest lectured at many law schools about the office of state attorney general. He has also taught at both Boston College Law School, Northeastern Law School and the University of Maine School of Law. He has served on the Board of both the American Judicature Society and was a member of the Board of Commentators of the Courtroom Television Network where appeared regularly as a guest. Iin April of 2006, Professor Tierney was selected as the Public Interest Professor of the Year. This award, which is given to the faculty member or administrator who has most supported and inspired a significant portion of the public interest law student community, is selected by a vote of students.

Wasden, Lawrence

Lawrence Wasden is Idaho’s 32nd Attorney General. He was elected to a second term on November 7, 2006, with 62% of the vote.

Attorney General Wasden, an 18-year veteran of the Office of the Attorney General, previously served as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General, Deputy Chief of Staff and as a Deputy Attorney General representing the Idaho State Tax Commission.

He has also served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Canyon County, Idaho, and as Prosecuting Attorney for Owyhee County, Idaho.

Attorney General Wasden is the President of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the Immediate Past Chair of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG). On November 1, 2007, he was selected by the Aspen Institute for a two-year fellowship program honoring public leaders as “the true rising stars” of American politics.

He served as Co-Chair of the NAAG Tobacco Committee from July 2004 through June of 2006 and is one of two state attorneys general serving on The American Legacy Foundation’s board of directors. The landmark national tobacco settlement created the American Legacy Foundation to reduce youth tobacco smoking and prevent smoking-related disease in the United States.

Attorney General Wasden obtained his J.D. from the University of Idaho and was admitted to the Idaho State Bar in 1985. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Brigham Young University in 1982.

Lawrence and Tracey Wasden have been married for 27 years. They live in Nampa, Idaho, and are proud parents of four children: son Sean and daughter-in-law Chelsie, daughter Ashley and son-in-law Curtis Crafton, daughter Cassidy and son Blake. Lawrence and Tracey are also proud grandparents of Carter Lawrence and Cai Crafton, and Taylor Wasden.

Attorney General Wasden is a founding member, and past chairman, of the Government and Public Lawyers Section of the Idaho State Bar. He serves on the Boise State University Department of Criminal Justice Advisory Council and on the board of directors for the Treasure Valley Reading Foundation. In 2007, he received a “The People First!” award from the Idaho Newspaper Foundation for his work with Idahoans for Openness in Government to educate local government officials, the media and the public regarding Idaho’s Open Meeting Law and Public Records Law.

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