Leaders Council
The Legal Services Corporation’s Leaders Council will help raise public awareness across the country on the crisis in civil legal aid and the importance of providing equal access to our justice system to low-income Americans.
LSC Leaders Council Members on The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low-income Americans report
LSC Leaders Council Co-Chair Harriet Miers on Justice Gap Report
LSC Leaders Council Co-Chair Kenneth Frazier on Justice Gap Report
Leaders Council Members
Hank Aaron (In Memoriam)
Former Professional Baseball Player
Kate Adams
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Apple, Inc.
Mark Angelson
Adjunct Faculty, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
Donald Ayer
Retired Partner, Jones Day
Helaine Barnett
Chair, New York State Permanent Commission on Access to Justice
Former President, Legal Services Corporation
Robert “Bob” Bauer
Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence,
and Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Practice Clinic
Ralph Baxter
Advisor, Writer & Speaker for the Legal Profession
Former Chairman, Orrick
Craig T. Beazer
General Counsel, Lincoln Financial
Peter J. Beshar
General Counsel, Department of the Air Force
Charles Besser
CEO and Founder, Intersport
Adam Bonin
Founder and Principal,
The Law Office of Adam Bonin
Susan Brooks
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, IN-05
Paulette Brown
Past President, American Bar Association
Former Partner, Locke Lord LLP
Debra Cafaro
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ventas, Inc.
Steven Calabresi
Professor, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Mary Ellen Callahan
Assistant General Counsel – Privacy, The Walt Disney Company
Matthew J. Calvert
Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Chris Campbell
Former Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Franchise Policy Officer, Yum! Brands, Inc.
Peter Carter
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Mark Chandler
Former Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Evan R. Chesler
Chairman and Presiding Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Steven Croley
Chief Policy Officer, Ford Motor Company
The Honorable Charles S. Crompton
Judge, San Francisco Superior Court, Department 19
James Crown
President, Henry Crown & Co.
Paul T. Dacier
General Counsel, Indigo Agriculture
Tye Darland
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Georgia Pacific LLC
Brackett Denniston
Senior Counsel, Goodwin Procter LLP
Matthew Diller
Dean, Fordham University School of Law
Alex Dimitrief
Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, General Electric
Bob Dole (In Memoriam)
Special Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Derek Douglas
Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs, University of Chicago
Doug Eakeley
Of Counsel, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Former Board Chair, Legal Services Corporation
Sonja Ebron
Co-Founder & CEO, Courtroom5
Thomas Ehrlich
Adjunct Professor, Stanford Law School
Shawn Fagan
Chief Legal Officer, Citadel
D. Cameron Findlay
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Archer Daniels Midland, Co.
Ivan Fong
General Counsel & Secretary, Medtronic
Former Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel, 3M Company
Former General Counsel, United States Department of Homeland Security
Alex Forger
Special Counsel, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Former President, Legal Services Corporation
Lisa Foster
Former Director, Department of Justice, Office of Access to Justice
Nabil Foster
Partner, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Kenneth Frazier (Co-Chair)
Chairman of Health Assurance Initiatives, General Catalyst
Former Executive Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co.
Eric Friedman
Executive Partner, Skadden
Timothy D. Friedman
Trustee, Reynolds Family Foundation
Kathryn Fritz
Managing Partner, Fenwick & West LLP
Herbert Garten
Chairman, Fedder and Garten
Former Board Member, Legal Services Corporation
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor,
Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
Brandon George
Executive Director, Indiana Addictions Issues Coalition
David Goldenberg
Former Executive Managing Director, Chief Legal Officer
S&P Global Ratings
Danielle Gray
Executive Vice President & Global Chief Legal Officer,
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
John Grisham
Author
Horacio Gutierrez
Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, The Walt Disney Company
David Halverson
Chief Executive Officer, Cypress International
Former Lieutenant General, U.S. Army
Jim Harbaugh
Head Football Coach, University of Michigan
Michael J. Harrington
Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Eli Lilly
Brett Hart
President, United Airlines
Ronan Harty
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Eric Holder
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Former United States Attorney General
Sven Erik Holmes
Former Vice Chairman, Legal, Risk, and Regulatory and Former Chief Legal Officer, KPMG LLP
Former Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Michael Holston
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, General Electric
Ted Howard
Pro Bono Partner, Wiley Rein
Former Chair, ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense
William Hubbard
Dean, University of South Carolina School of Law
Past President, American Bar Association
Joey Jackson
Founder, Joey Jackson Law LLC
Earl Johnson
Scholar in Residence, Western Center on Law & Poverty
Former Associate Justice, California Court of Appeals
Brad Karp
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Peter Keisler
Former Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Christopher Kennedy
Chairman, Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc.
Joe Kennedy
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, MA-04
John Kiernan
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
Jenny Kim
Vice President of Operations and General Counsel, The Philanthropy Roundtable
Linda Klein
Managing Shareholder, Baker Donelson
Harry Korrell
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
David A. Lash
Counsel, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Richard Lee
CEO & Co-Founder, New Era ADR
Steven Lepper
President & CEO, Association of Military Banks America
David Levi
Dean, Duke University School of Law
Susan C. Levy
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Northern Trust Corporation
Jonathan Lippman
Of Counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP
Former Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals
Marty Lipton
Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP
The Honorable Lora Livingston
Presiding Judge, 261st Civil District Court of Texas
Michael Lufrano
Vice President, Community Affairs & Chief Legal Officer
Chicago Cubs
M. Elizabeth Magill
Provost, University of Virginia
Former Dean, Stanford Law School
Rob Malionek
Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
John Manning
Dean, Harvard Law School
Craig Martin
Chairman, Midwest, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Judy Perry Martinez
Of Counsel, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn
Immediate Past President, American Bar Association
Wally Martinez
Managing Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
J. Kevin McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, BNY Mellon
Madeleine M. McDonough
Chair, Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Harriet Miers (Co-Chair)
Partner, Locke Lord LLP
Former White House Counsel
Tom Miles
Dean, University of Chicago Law School
Robert Millen
Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Pizza Hut
Alex Miller
Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Product and Operations, Visa Inc.
Lee Miller
Partner and Global Chair Emeritus, DLA Piper
E. Leo Milonas
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Martha Minow
300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University
Trevor Morrison
Dean, New York University School of Law
Margaret Morrow
Former President & CEO, Public Counsel
Stephen Moss
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
Patrick Murphy
Former Under Secretary of the United States Army
Former U.S. Congressman (PA-8)
Timothy Murphy
General Counsel, MasterCard
Stephen Neal
Chairman, Cooley LLP
Rodney Nagel
Senior Vice President of Human Resource Operations, Tyson Foods
William Neukom
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, World Justice Project
Past President, American Bar Association
Yvette Ostolaza
Chair-Elect, Management Committee, Sidley Austin LLP
Timothy Palmer
Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Charlesbank Capital Partners
Roderick Palmore
Senior Counsel, Dentons LLP
Lucian Pera
Partner, Adams and Reese LLP
Justin D. Pitt
Senior Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel, Community Health Systems
Richard Pogue
Senior Advisor, Jones Day
Robert Post
Professor & Former Dean, Yale Law School
Roberta Ramo
President, American Law Institute
Past President, American Bar Association
Shareholder, Modrall Sperling
Harry Reasoner
Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Patricia Lee Refo
Immediate Past President, American Bar Association
Partner, Snell & Wilmer
Annita M. Riddick
President & Owner, AMR Solutions Firm LLC
Tonya Robinson
Vice Chair & General Counsel, Legal, Regulatory and Compliance, KPMG LLP
John W. Rogers
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer, Ariel Investments
David Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, The Carlyle Group
Kathryn H. Ruemmler
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and General Counsel, Goldman Sachs
Former White House Counsel
William Russell, Jr.
Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Frank Ryan
Partner, DLA Piper
Sharon R. Ryan
Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
The International Paper Company
Amy Schulman
Venture Partner, Polaris Partners
John F. Schultz
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Lisa Schwab
Senior Corporate Counsel, Liberty Mutual
Bud Selig
Commissioner Emeritus, Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball
James R. Silkenat
Board Member, Friends of Legal Services Corporation
Past President, American Bar Association
Samuel K. Skinner
Former White House Chief of Staff
Former Secretary of Transportation
Michael Skoglund
Group Lead Lawyer – Cargill Salt, Cargill
Cliff Sloan
Retired Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Tom Smegal
Attorney, Law Offices of Thomas Frank Smegal, Jr.
Board Chair, Friends of Legal Services Corporation
Brad Smith
President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Claire Solot
Managing Director, Bigglesworth Family Foundation
Co-Founder, Legal Services Funder Network
Arne Sorenson (In Memoriam)
Former President & Chief Executive Officer, Marriott International
Thomas Souleles
Managing Director, Madison Dearborn Partners
Roanne Sragow-Licht
First Justice, Cambridge District Court of Massachusetts
Laura Stein
EVP, General Counsel, Corporate & Legal Affairs
Mondelēz International
David Stern
Executive Director, Equal Justice Works
Frank Strickland
Partner, Taylor English Duma LLP
Former Board Chair, Legal Services Corporation
Deanell Tacha
Board Member, Equal Justice Works
Former Dean, Pepperdine School of Law
Richard "Dick" Thornburgh (In Memoriam)
Former Of Counsel, K&L Gates LLP
United States Attorney General, 1988-1991
William Treanor
Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
Joel Unruch
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Accenture
Palmer Gene Vance II
Member, Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC
Robert Vischer
Dean, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation
Jo-Ann Wallace
President and CEO, National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA)
Ed Walters
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fastcase, Inc.
Daniel E. Wathen
Of Counsel, Pierce Atwood LLP
Former Chief Justice, Maine Supreme Court
Ronald Weich
Dean, University of Baltimore School of Law
H. Thomas “Tommy” Wells, Jr.
Shareholder, Maynard Cooper & Gale
Past President, American Bar Association
Mark West
Dean and Nippon Life Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Joseph W. Winkels
Attorney, Carlson, Caspers, Vandenburgh, Lindquist & Schuman, P.A.
William "Rocky" Wirtz
Principal Owner, Chairman, Chicago Blackhawks
Teresa Wynn Roseborough
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, The Home Depot, Inc.
Former United States Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Salle Yoo
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, IonQ, Inc.
Andrew Young
Founder and Chair, Andrew J. Young Foundation
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
David Zapolsky
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Amazon