Judge Ronald B. Adrine, Chair
Ronald B. Adrine was first elected to the bench of the Cleveland (Ohio) Municipal Court in 1981. He has been re-elected four times without opposition, most recently in 2005. Judge Adrine has served as a member of the Governor's Task Force on Family Violence in Ohio, the Ohio Attorney General Victim's Assistance Advisory Board, the Domestic Violence Task Force of the Ohio Victim's Assistance Advisory Board, and the Ohio Supreme Court's Domestic Violence Task Force. He serves on the National Battered Women's Justice Project Advisory Board. He was elected to serve as the first chair of Cleveland's Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. The Judge has lectured extensively on domestic violence issues for a host of organizations, associations, and governmental agencies, including the Attorney General's Offices of Ohio and Pennsylvania, the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, the Women's Coalition of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Governor's Offices of Maryland and Puerto Rico, Judicial Colleges and Institutes in North Carolina, Ohio and Louisiana, the Supreme Courts of Delaware and Wisconsin, the National Center for Disease Control, the National College of District Attorneys, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Department of Justice. He chairs the faculty of the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence, a joint initiative of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the Family Violence Prevention Fund, financed by the U.S. Department of Justice. He is co-author of Ohio Domestic Violence Law part of Thompson/West Group Publishing's Ohio Handbook Series. He is a graduate of Fisk University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Vice-Chair
Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN is the Anna D. Wolf Endowed Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was recently named American Academy of Nursing/Institute of Medicine/American Nurse's Foundation Scholar-In-Residence. Her BSN, MSN and PhD are from Duke University, Wright State University and the University of Rochester Schools of Nursing. She has been conducting advocacy policy work and research in the area of domestic violence since 1980. Dr. Campbell has been the PI of 9 major NIH, NIJ or CDC research grants and published more than 120 articles and seven books on this subject, including the new textbook Family Violence and Nursing Practice co-authored by Janice Humphreys. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing, was a member of the congressionally appointed US Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, and is currently on the Boards of Directors of the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the House of Ruth Battered Women's Shelter.

Linda Spears, Treasurer
Linda Spears is the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Development for the Child Welfare League of America. She is an African-American and Native-American woman with a long history of providing key leadership in the child welfare and domestic violence fields. She worked with the Department of Social Services in Boston, Massachusetts, where she recognized domestic violence as an issue needing to be addressed by the child welfare system. Ms. Spears started the first domestic violence unit in a Child Protective Services agency in the country. She is also a recognized leader, nationally, on these issued in the Native-American community.

Nathan Brostrom
Nathan Brostrom was recently named Vice Chancellor-Administration at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the chief financial and administrative officer, managing the campus' annual operating budget of more than $1.3 billion. He was most recently a managing director and co-head of the Western Region Public Finance group at J.P. Morgan Securities, and was a highly regarded public finance banker. He holds a master's degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University and a B.A. from Stanford University. Mr. Brostrom and his wife Caitlin Lempres Brostrom are the parents of six children.

M.L. Carr
M.L. Carr, a former Celtics basketball star and coach, is the founder of WARM2Kids, a leader in providing social, emotional, and educational support for today's youth. He is also the founder of two charitable foundations, the M.L. Carr Scholarship Foundation at Guilford College (est. 1987), and the John Henry Carr Alzheimers and Aging Foundation (est. 1990). For his unyielding service to the community, he has received the Martin Luther King Jr. Image Award, the Toastmaster's Communication Award, Camille Cosby's Citizenship Award, and the Good Scout Award. He has authored three books, Don't Be Denied, Enough is Enough, and Winning Through Persistence. Mr. Carr also serves on several other charitable and corporate boards, including the Red Auerbach Youth Foundation, YMCA Advisory Board, Children's Museum Advisory Board, Guilford College Board of Trustees, and New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.

Sunny Fischer
Sunny Fischer has worked as a philanthropic pioneer and domestic violence leader, beginning as an early domestic violence activist in Evanston, Illinois. She is the Executive Director of the Richard Driehaus Foundation, was a founding executive director of one of the first private women's foundations in the country, the Sophia Fund, and was the co-founder of the Chicago Foundation for Women. At the Donors Forum and United Way in Chicago, she has led efforts to increase the philanthropic response to gender discrimination and poverty. In the past Ms. Fischer has been a teacher, a researcher (she co-authored "All They Can Do: Police Response to Battered Women's Complaints"), and a social worker. Numerous organizations have honored her for her work in philanthropy and women's issues, including Jewish Women International, the Association of Fundraising Executives - Chicago Chapter, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, which gave her its "Point of Lightning" award. Born in New York City, Ms. Fischer was educated at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Her masters degree is from the University of Chicago's School of Social Services Administration (SSA). A member of several other boards, she now chairs the board of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.

Ellen Friedman
Ellen Friedman is the Vice President of the Tides Foundation and The Tides Center. With the Foundation since 1987, she works with individual donors, families, and corporations, assisting them in developing their philanthropic programs. Prior to her tenure at Tides, Ms. Friedman was a Program Associate at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation where she developed and implemented grantmaking programs in the areas of domestic violence and pre-collegiate public education. Ms. Friedman has been active in the domestic violence movement since 1976. She helped found and direct Sojurn Shelter for Women in Santa Monica, CA and was an organizer with the Southern California Coalition for Battered Women. Ms. Friedman has been a Board member of the Family Violence Prevention Fund since 1989. She also serves on the Boards of the Three Guineas Fund and the Tides Center. Ms. Friedman holds an MBA from UCLA.

William Hirsch
William Hirsch is a respected consumer protection attorney with Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP. He is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, State Bar of California, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the ACLU of Northern California. He received his law degree from Harvard University, M.A. from Princeton University, and B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Mr. Hirsch is the author of "Justice Delayed: Seven Years Later & No End In Sight" in The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem.

Judith Kanter
Judith Kanter has devoted her life to the empowerment of women and the promotion of women's leadership. She is the former Director of the San Francisco office of EMILY'S list (Early Money Is Like Yeast), which raises money for Pro Choice Democratic women political candidates. She is instrumental in organizing men and women on the issue of violence prevention, including sitting on the FVPF's Steering Committee planning the content and vision for the International Center to End Abuse. Ms. Kanter is involved with a number of other nonprofit organizations, including LifePrint (formerly known as Alumnae Resources), the Coro Foundation and Emerge. She is new to the board of the San Francisco Symphony, and to the national board of EMILY's List. Recently, Ms. Kanter received major accolades from Emerge and from the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Northern California Grantmakers.

Susan Leal
Susan Leal is the General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), overseeing the regional utility agency that delivers reliable, high quality drinking water to more than 2.4 million Bay Area customers, treats wastewater and storm water for the City and County of San Francisco and provides hydroelectric and clean power to San Francisco and several Central Valley communities. Renowned for her financial skills and management expertise as City Treasurer and a former member of the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom recommended Leal to lead the SFPUC in 2004 and the members of the Commission appointed her as General Manager in August 2004. From 1997 - 2004, Leal served as Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, the City's banker and chief investment officer, winning re-election in 2001. Her duties as Treasurer also included managing all tax and revenue collection for San Francisco. Just one of her many accomplishments was to initiate San Francisco’s first-ever socially responsible investment policy that consistently achieved a rate of return highest among its peers. Susan Leal first joined San Francisco City Government in June 1993, when she was appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the following year, she won a four-year term. While serving on the Board, she chaired its Finance Committee, where she was responsible for balancing a $4 billion budget. Prior to her years in elected office, Susan Leal had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur, attorney, and investigator in state and federal governments. A San Francisco native, Leal earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.

Felicia B. Lynch
Felicia Lynch is a Senior Associate with Bradford and Associates, LLC, a collaborative of specialists providing technical assistance to community-based organizations. More recently, as the Director of Health and Support Services for the District of Columbia's HIV/AIDS Administration, she oversaw the Ryan White Care Act Title I & II including the AIDS Drug Administration Program (ADAP) as well as all Housing programs for people living with HIV and AIDS. Ms. Lynch served as President and CEO of Women and Philanthropy, an organization of men and women who collectively recognize that regardless of race, ethnicity, age or sexual orientation women's voices lend depth and meaning to debates on issues we face as a society. Prior to that she was President of the Allegheny Policy Council, a public policy agency charged with facilitating collaboration and the reallocation of fiscal and human resources to improve the status of children and families in Allegheny County. Ms. Lynch also served as Senior Vice President for the Hitachi Foundation, where she developed the Foundation's program goals and funding priorities. She has a degree in nursing from Central Islip School of Nursing and an Ed.M with a concentration in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ms. Lynch chaired the board of the Center for Women Policy Studies and served on the boards of the National Network of Grantmakers, the Independent Sector, Hood and Chatham Colleges, and the National Advisory Board of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. She currently sits on the national boards of the Americans All Foundation and the Family Violence Prevention Fund.

Laurie Patterson
Laurie Patterson spent her professional life in corporate America as vice president for Marsh and McLennan, where she was involved in the national reorganizing of a large division of the company ($2.5B). She has been a long time community volunteer in women's issues, and spent considerable volunteer time and energy facilitating connections between private school children, especially boys, and community service agencies, such as the San Francisco Food Bank and Glide Memorial. Recently she has served as a volunteer fundraiser, putting on effective and high-level fundraising events to support gun control and women's choice. Ms. Patterson recently served as a licensed alternative dispute resolution mediator for Martha's Vineyard Mediation Program, and is active in the busy lives of her six children.

Arnold X. C. Perkins
Arnold X. C. Perkins has served as Director of the Alameda County Public Health Department in Oakland, California since 1994. As Director he provides leadership and management of the administrative, program and policy activities of the department, which has a budget of $105 million and over 500 employees. Presently the Alameda County Public Health Department serves a population of 1.4 million people. Currently, Mr. Perkins is leading the Department through a major organizational shift that reflects a broad vision of public health with a community development orientation. His diverse background includes positions as a high school teacher and principal; non-profit organization executive director; family counselor and advocate; foundation program officer; college teacher and administrator; and restaurant owner and operator. Mr. Perkins is an experienced speaker and facilitator, especially in the areas of organizational change, team building, creative leadership, community development, and group dynamics. Married, with four sons, Mr. Perkins is an avid traveler, fly fisherman, and basketball spectator, and enjoys gardening and raising orchids.

Jerome Rossi
Jerome (Jerry) Rossi has more than thirty years in the retail business. Presently, Mr. Rossi serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The Marmaxx Group, a division of The TJX Companies, Inc. Mr. Rossi devotes a significant amount of his time with the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, and with the St. Ann's Home in Methuen, Massachusetts, which helps troubled children and their families. Additionally, Jerry has served on the boards of the Holy Family Hospital & Medical Center, the University of Connecticut and the University of Connecticut Medical Center. He was also a member of the board of trustees at Stonehill College. Mr. Rossi and has served on a variety of banking boards including Texas Commerce Bank and Connecticut Bank & Trust. He has been driven from the beginning to get involved with others, initially with the American Heart Association and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Mr. Rossi's service to the communities around him serves as a model for other business leaders, representing the all-important balance between professional challenges and taking responsibility for helping those less fortunate.

Mr. Rossi was a member of the Federal Violence Against Women Advisory Council and a member of the subcommittee looking into the impact of domestic violence in the workplace. Based on a challenge from Jerry, President Clinton announced in October 1995 the formation of the Federal Employee Awareness Program on domestic violence at a White House press conference. Jerry Rossi has been instrumental in carrying out the corporation's mission of supporting the communities in which it does business, by focusing primarily on women, children and families. In 1994 he was instrumental in partnering Marshalls with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and in launching the Fund's There is No Excuse for Domestic Violence Campaign, "Corporate America can and must make a difference." Rossi is one of the Family Violence Prevention Fund's founding fathers and is an active supporter of Coaching Boys Into Men, an education campaign that teaches boys that violence against women and other children is wrong. Rossi also serves as a key member of the capital campaign for the Family Violence Prevention Fund's new International Center to End Abuse. In addition, he has dedicated both corporate charitable contributions and his own funds to support institutions such as women's shelters and children's wellness programs. He continues to work at both the national and state levels on awareness and judicial issues that relate to Domestic Violence.

Patrice Tanaka
Patrice Tanaka is the Co-Chair, Chief Creative Officer and Director-Consumer Practice of CRT/tanaka, a new entity created in September 2005 bringing together the talent and expertise of two of the PR industry's most well-respected, independent, mid-sized agencies – the New York City-based Patrice Tanaka & Company, Inc. (PT&Co.) and Richmond, Va.-based, Carter Ryley Thomas (CRT). Her current and former agencies have been recognized as the "Best Agency to Work for in America," "Most Admired Mid-Size PR Agency in the U.S.," "#1 Most Creative PR Agency in America," among other accolades by various PR organizations and trade media. Patrice is committed to the idea of "creating community" within and beyond the workplace through both her personal and professional endeavors and for this she has been recognized by many organizations, including New York Women in Communications (Matrix Award), Association for Women in Communications (Headliner Award), Public Relations Society of America (Paul M. Lund Award for Public Service), Girl Scout Council of Greater New York (Woman of Distinction Award), Inside PR ("Creativity All-Star" Award), Asian Women in Business (Entrepreneurial Leadership Award), among others.