Former Human Rights First Principals and Staff

Human Rights First staff and principals list of previous years

2006 Directors
2006
 * William D. Zabel (Chair) Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
 * Kenneth R. Feinberg (Vice-Chair) The Feinberg Group LLP
 * Robert D. Joffe (Vice-Chair) Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP
 * Lynda Clarizio (Treasurer) Advertising.com
 * A. Whitney Ellsworth (Secretary) Publishing Consultant
 * M. Bernard Aidinoff - Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
 * Tom A. Bernstein - Chelsea Piers Management Inc.
 * Raymond M. Brown - Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis
 * Craig Cogut - Pegasus Investors, L.P.
 * Donald Francis Donovan - Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
 * Gail Furman - Psychologist, NYU School of Medicine
 * Leslie Gimbel - Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation
 * R. Scott Greathead - Wiggin & Dana LLP
 * Myrna K. Greenberg - Founder, City Lights Youth Theatre
 * Louis Henkin - Columbia University School of Law
 * John D. Hutson - President and Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Ret. Rear Admiral, JAGC, USN
 * Lewis B. Kaden - Vice Chairman, CAO, Citigroup Inc.
 * Juliette Kayyem - Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard University
 * Kerry Kennedy - RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights
 * Harold Hongju Koh - Dean, Yale Law School
 * Philip A. Lacovara - Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
 * Jo Backer Laird - Christie's Inc.
 * Robert Todd Lang - Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
 * Michael K. Rozen - The Feinberg Group LLP
 * Barbara A. Schatz - Columbia University, School of Law
 * Steven R. Shapiro - American Civil Liberties Union
 * George A. Vradenburg - The Vradenburg Foundation
 * Sigourney Weaver - Actor

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


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