Five New Members Added to Shriver Center Board of Directors

Five new members of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law’s board of directors will strengthen the administration of the Shriver Center’s national mission.  They bring a wealth of expertise to the organization on issues affecting low-income people—extensive legal expertise, experience in providing direct legal services to low-income people, and prominent service within the federal government.  “These new board members are a powerful addition to our team of leaders,” said John Bouman, the newly named president of the Shriver Center.  “They are a key part of our plan to reorganize the staff and build the board to maximize our ability nationally to take action to end poverty.” The five new members will serve a three-year term, most beginning in January 2007:

• Nicholas E. Chimicles is a senior partner and chairman of the executive committee of Chimicles & Tikellis LLP.  He has broad experience in complex litigation, antitrust, securities fraud, and breach-of-fiduciary-duty suits.  He is past president of the National Association of Securities and Commercial Law Attorneys.
• Stuart Cohen is the AARP Foundation’s director of legal advocacy.  He had earlier spent 25 years providing legal services in New York, Maryland, and New Jersey.  His legal experience includes work in housing, public benefits, consumer, child abuse and neglect, and family issues. 
• The Honorable Mickey Kantor is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and is one of the world’s leading international attorneys.  He served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton and has a distinguished record of government service.
• John C. Thurmond is a real estate associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP in Chicago.  He will serve as the liaison to the Shriver Center’s associate board of directors.
• Cyrus Vance Jr. is a principal at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer P.C. in New York City.  His expertise includes civil and criminal cases with an emphasis on criminal defense in federal and state courts in a wide variety of legal matters. 

Sunny Fischer, executive director of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, chairs the Shriver Center’s board. The Honorable Divida Gude, of Atlanta, Georgia, is secretary, and C. Steven Tomashefsky, a Jenner & Block partner, is treasurer.
 
The other members of the Shriver Center’s board of directors are William J. Beck of Smith Barney Inc.; Frederick H. Cohen of Goldberg Kohn; Sandra Cuneo, an attorney; Gregory R. Dallaire, an attorney; Gill Deford of the Center for Medicare Advocacy; LeAlan M. Jones, a writer and filmmaker; Ethel Klein, Ph.D., of EDK Associates; Betty J. Musburger, an attorney; Catherine L. Robb of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP; Janice E. Rodgers of Quarles & Brady; Jean Rudd of JR Strategies; Joe Scantlebury of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Jill Schuker of the JAS International Group; Oran Whiting, an attorney ; Luis Wilmot, an attorney; and, serving as senior advisor, William Josephson of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.