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Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Chair
David Wax, San Diego, CA

Vice Chairs
Ruth Fletcher, Los Gatos, CA
Lisie Gottdenker, Bethesda, MD
Thomas A. Mandel, Akron, OH
Adrienne Matros, Newport Coast, CA

Secretary
Edward Schreiber, Bellaire, TX

Associate Secretary
Michael Gold, Stamford, CT

CONTINUING MEMBERS

Honorary Chairs
Gary E. Jacobs, San Diego, CA
Edward H. Kaplan, Washington, DC
Ann P. Kaufman, Houston, TX
Jerome B. Makowsky, Memphis, TN
Daniel Rose, New York, NY
Stephen P. Seiden, Livingston, NJ
Paula L. Sidman, Boston, MA
Alan P. Solow, Chicago, IL

Honorary Board Members
Irwin L. Elson, Detroit, MI
Marilyn Fox, St. Louis, MO
Sandra Gold, Tenafly, NJ
Marvin Pertzik, St. Paul, MN
Harriet L. Rosenthal, MetroWest, NJ
Myron Strober, Palm Beach, FL

NOMINATED FOR TWO-YEAR TERMS
(Terms expiring 2024)

Directors-at-Large
Sandy Cardin, Queenstown, MD
Carol Weintraub Fogel, West Bloomfield, MI
Heather Small Gilbert, Davie, FL
Paul Gillis, Denver, CO
William Goodman, Pittsburgh, PA
Bobby Hammel, Allentown, PA
Jonathan Hoffer, Scottsdale, AZ
Elise Jordan, Memphis, TN
Marisa Mandrea, Chicago, IL
David Peltz, Toronto, ON
Jeremy Samuels, Houston, TX
Annette G. Saxon, Baltimore, MD
Jessica Sillins, New Paltz, NY
Susan B. Strait, Milwaukee, WI

Professionals – JCC CEOs
Addie Goodman, Chicago, IL
Jonathan Lev, Boulder, CO
Leonard Petlakh, Brooklyn, NY

RENOMINATED FOR TWO-YEAR TERMS
(Terms expiring 2024)

Directors-at-Large
David Ainsman, Pittsburgh, PA
Edward Atkins, M.D., Glencoe, IL
David Begelfer, Chestnut Hill, MA
Kara Bierman, Memphis, TN
Lisa Brill, Atlanta, GA
Donald W. Brodsky, Houston, TX
Andrew L. Eisenberg, Boston, MA
Joyce Goldstein, Essex Fells, NJ
Lorne Goldstein, Toronto, ON
Lawrence C. Gottlieb, New York, NY
Dana Hollander, Irvine, CA
Howard T. Jacobson, Overland Park, KS
Stephen M. Kaufman, Houston, TX (chair appointment)
Ronald L. Leibow, La Jolla, CA
Carolynn H. Levy, Brookline, MA
Jay Liberman, Plano, TX
Judith Lieberman, West Orange, NJ
Marc B. Merklin, Akron, OH
Eric M. Nislow, Baltimore, MD
Geri Pollack, New York, NY (chair appointment)
Stephen R. Reiner, New York, NY
Susan Steiner Saal, Palo Alto, CA
Alicia Sadoff, Milwaukee, WI
Rhea Schwartz, Chevy Chase, MN
Shirley Solomon, Boca Raton, FL
Phyllis Tabachnick, Chicago, IL
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg, Minneapolis, MN

Professionals – JCC CEOs
Zack Bodner, Palo Alto, CA
Marc Fisher, Cincinnati, OH
Lael Gray, Los Gatos, CA
Rabbi Bill Kaplan, Malibu, CA
Amy Lavin, Seattle, WA
Andrew Levy, Toronto, ON
Betzy Lynch, San Diego, CA
Todd Rockoff, Tucson, AZ
Brian Siegel, Detroit, MI

CHAIR, JWB PLENUM
(Term expiring 2024)
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell, Phoenix, AZ

CHAIR, JCC GLOBAL
(Term expiring 2024)
Menachem Revivi, Jerusalem, Israel

OUTGOING BOARD MEMBERS
(Terms expiring 2022)

Directors-at-Large
Archie Gottesman, Summit, NJ
Lawrence Magid, Miami, FL
Steven S. Rogers, Tenafly, NJ
Jane T. Rubin, Frontenac, MO
Linda Russin, New York, NY
Philip Schatten, New York, NY
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnick, Forest Hills, NY
Suzanne Albin Tucker, Westfield, NJ
Craig Weiss, Memphis, TN

Professionals
Joel Dinkin, Houston, TX
Ivy Harlev, Wilmington, DE
Lynn Wittels, St. Louis, MO

NOMINATING AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
Stephen P. Seiden, Chair
Gary E. Jacobs, Board Chair
Doron Krakow, President & CEO
Ruth Fletcher
Lisie Gottdenker
Edward H. Kaplan
Ronald L. Leibow
Carolynn H. Levy
Judith Lieberman
Thomas A. Mandel
Paula L. Sidman
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg
Suzanne Albin Tucker
David Wax