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OfficersPresident | Representative Lynn Woolsey Chair, National Executive Committee | David Yamada
Treasurer | Jim B. Clarke
Secretary | Mary von Euler
Counsel | Jack Blum VICE PRESIDENTS Elijah Cummings, Member of Congress, Maryland HONORARY PRESIDENTS Joseph Duffy |
David Yamada is a Professor of Law and Director of the New Workplace Institute at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, where he specializes in labor and employment law. He is an internationally recognized authority on the legal and policy aspects of workplace bullying, and he has drafted model legislation known as the Healthy Workplace Bill that is being introduced in state legislatures across the country. He has served on the ADA National Board since 2001 and the ADA National Executive Committee since 2004. A public interest lawyer before entering law teaching, he earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Jim B. Clarke lives in Culver City, CA and works as Director of Federal Relations for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Previously, he served in Washington, DC, as chief of staff to two Los Angeles-based members of Congress -- Diane E. Watson and Brad Sherman. In addition to serving as director of the California Clean Money Campaign and the Southern California chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, Jim's political involvement includes being chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, secretary of the California Democratic Party and president of the California Democratic Council. He holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from Cal State Long Beach and a Bachelor's degree from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. He is also a graduate public affairs fellow of the CORO Foundation and a retired Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. He has served on the ADA National Board since 1997..jpg)
Mary von Euler came to political activism early in an ardent New Deal family that included an internist father who plugged for national health insurance and an editor mother who served stints lobbying for admission of Jewish refugee children and running for Congress in a hopeless year and district. In college she studied history and government while organizing Radcliffe Students for Democratic Action, knocking on doors in Boston to defeat anti-labor referenda. After college she was a legislative secretary in Hubert Humphrey’s US Senate office. With an MA from Columbia TC, she taught high school history and social studies (geography and US government). After serving as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution, she earned a JD from Catholic University Law School and served as an attorney advisor in the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights until retirement. Her daughter Barbara and husband practice public interest law in NC and son Peter teaches 5th grade in CT, while his wife helps with funding non-profit groups. Mary and her husband Leo, retired from NIH, have three grandchildren.