Leadership
Officers and Trustees
President | Genie Miller Gillespie | 1 year term |
Vice President | Heather Strickland | 1 year term |
President-Elect | Jenny Womack | 1 year term |
Immediate Past President | Catherine Keefe | 1 year term |
Secretary-Administrator | Jennie Sullivan | Staff |
Art Director | Margaret Swain | 2nd year of 2nd term |
ART Deputy Director | Nidhi Desai | Appointed by AAAA President and ART Director |
Adoption Director | Deb Guston | 1st year of 1st term |
Deputy Director of Domestic Adoptions | Kelly Dempsey | Appointed by AAAA President and Adoption Director |
Deputy Director of International Adoptions | Karen Law | Appointed by AAAA President and Adoption Director |
Trustee | David Andersen | 1st year of 2nd term |
Trustee/Treasurer | Hal Atencio | 1st year of 2nd term |
Trustee | Sherriann Hicks | 2nd year of 2nd term |
Trustee | Josie Redwine | 1st year of 1st term |
Trustee | Lance Rich | 1st year of 1st term |
Trustee | Meryl Rosenberg | 2nd year of 1st term |
Trustee | Kim Surratt | 1st year of 1st term |
Committee Chairs
Agency | Lance Rich |
Amicus | Tabitha Koh |
Awards | Colleen Quinn |
Brief Bank | Sara Cohen |
Children's Rights & Foster Care | Katie Jay, Keith Wallace |
CLE/Education | Nidhi Desai, Sherriann Hicks |
Conferences (General) | Sherriann Hicks, Heather Strickland |
Finance/Audit/Investment | Hal Atencio |
Family Formation Charitable Trust | Donald Cofsky |
Governance | Dave Andersen |
Governmental Affairs | Genie Miller Gillespie, Larry Jenkins |
Grievance | Jenny Womack |
ICPC | Genie Miller Gillespie/Barbara Ginn |
ICWA | Mark Fiddler, Larry Jenkins |
Intercountry Adoption | Dan Berger, Kelly Dempsey |
Legislative | Deb Guston (Adoption), Margaret Swain (ART) |
Membership Applications | Greg Franklin (Adoption), Emily McArthur (ART) |
Member Value | Deb Guston |
Mentorship | Virginia Frank |
New Members | Jennie Sullivan, Jenny Womack |
Personnel | Heather Strickland |
Private Adoption – ART Networking | Robin Fleischner, Deborah Spivack |
Site Selection | Mark Demaray, Eric Freeby, Rebecca Mendel, Robin Pope, Theresa Roetter |
Social Media | Jennie Sullivan |
Webinar | Holly Wotherspoon, Rob Kirsh |
White Paper Project | Denise Seidelman, Margaret Swain |