Executive Committee

Executive Staff

Colleen Cotter
Executive Director

David B. Dawson, Esq.
Deputy Director

Bettina Kaplan
Controller

Garrick E. Lipscomb
Information Technology Director

Melanie A. Shakarian, Esq.
Development Director

Board of Directors

 Ilah Adkins, Esq.
Charter One Bank

Jesse O. Anderson
Neighborhood Trustee
Cuyahoga County

Mark Bennett, Esq.
US Attorney's Office

Ann S. Bergen, Esq.
Law Office of Ann S. Bergen

Joanne Gross, Esq.
Neighborhood Trustee
South Euclid

Carole O. Heyward, Esq.
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Kathleen Kordeleski, Esq.
ABB, Inc.

David Kutik, Esq.
Jones Day
President Emeritus

Barbara Leadbetter
Neighborhood Trustee
Cuyahoga County

Richard Panza, Esq.
Wickens, Herzer, Panza, Cook & Batista

Richard Petrulis, Esq.
Key Bank

Jerome Pleasant
Neighborhood Trustee
Cuyahoga County

Patricia Poole, Esq.
Baker & Hostetler, LLP
President Emerita

Mary Ann Rabin, Esq.
Rabin & Rabin Company, LPA

Elizabeth “Betsy” Rader, Esq.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Louis Stokes, Esq.
Squire Sanders & Dempsey

Adrian Thompson, Esq.
Taft Stettinius & Hollister

Michelle Wilkerson-Guerry
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless

Rebecca L. Wojtko
Nominated by the Lorain County Big Brothers Big Sisters