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Heidi Bruegel Cox
Fiduciaire
Kelly Dempsey
Fiduciaire
Kelly is a Partner at Fox Rothschild LLP, a 1,000-lawyer national law firm with 29 offices. She is a fierce, compassionate and experienced advocate who provides legal representation to a broad range of diverse clients in all aspects of family formation, including assisted reproductive technology (ART), surrogacy, and domestic and international adoptions.
Kelly provides comprehensive guidance to clients and handles the full spectrum of adoption options, including domestic, international, step-parent and relative adoptions and adoptions from foster care, as well as disruptions, dissolutions, and contested adoptions. She also helps clients demystify and navigate the legal challenges related to surrogacy and ART, including counseling clients through the immigration and naturalization process for foreign-born adopted children.
Proud mother to four children, one of whom was adopted from Vietnam and another domestically, Kelly has a genuine understanding of the personal aspects of adoption that shines through in the attentive and thoughtful way in which she represents her clients on their family formation journey.
Tim Eirich
Fiduciaire
Timothy J. Eirich is the Managing Partner of Grob & Eirich, which is a Colorado law firm specializing in adoption, family formation, child welfare, guardianship/custody cases, and immigration issues for children.
Tim is an experienced litigator who has tried over twenty-five jury trials, litigated hundreds of contested hearings, and has argued in the front of both the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Tim litigated the ground-breaking case, both at the trial level and before the Colorado Supreme Court, that addressed the rights of foster parents and other caregivers in dependency and neglect cases. Tim has also received a number of awards recognizing his work. In 2012, Tim received the Excellence in Practice Award for a Juvenile Law Attorney at the Colorado Summit for Children Youth and Families. In 2014, the Colorado State Foster Parent Association honored Tim with the Champion Award for work and efforts on behalf of Colorado’s foster parents. Also, in 2014, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute awarded Tim the prestigious Angels in Adoption Award for his work in adoption and positive child welfare practices. In 2023, Tim was honored by the Arapahoe County Bar Association with the Raymond Frenchmore Award for Outstanding Contribution to Juvenile Justice by the Arapahoe County Bar Association. In 2023, the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys honored Tim with the Unsung Hero Award.
Tim has handled hundreds of private, public, and contested adoptions and has been recognized as a Fellow with the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. Tim has also testified in front of the Colorado General Assembly on issues involving child welfare, adoption, and children and family issues and has contributed to the drafting of significant legislation involving adoption and child welfare.
Tim has lectured frequently, in both Colorado and across the nation, on the rights of relatives, foster parents, and caregivers in the child welfare system, as well as complex issues in adoption and family formation. In addition to training and presenting on substantive issues involving adoption and child welfare, Tim has taught trial skills to fellow attorneys in Colorado and across the country as an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA).
Tim is an honors graduate of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. At Loyola, Tim was as a Philip H. Corboy Fellow (member of the National Trial Team), a Curt N. Rodin Fellow in advocacy, and a Civitas Childlaw Fellow. Tim was also an associate editor for the Children's Legal Rights Journal. Tim received his undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University where he majored in English and was a captain of the NCAA Division 1 Crew Team.
Greg Franklin
Fiduciaire
Greg is a member of the firm of Ashcraft & Franklin, LLP, in Rochester, New York. He graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 1984; adoption and assisted fertility comprise approximately 90% of his law practice. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and in the Federal courts.
Greg began concentrating his practice in adoptions when he and his wife adopted their son. Since then, he has represented thousands of adoptive parents and birth parents in domestic and international adoptions, step-parent, co-parent and foster care adoptions, and has worked extensively in the area of assisted fertility, representing gestational carriers, surrogate mothers, egg and sperm donors, and their intended families. Greg takes particular pride in his representation of members of the LGBTQ+ and transgender communities, and has represented members of this community in litigation which changed New York adoption law.
Greg was born and grew up in New York City. After graduating from Grinnell College in 1978, he lived in London, England, working for Virgin Records in various capacities, eventually becoming the Assistant to the company’s Managing Director.
In his parallel life, Greg is a musician, playing bass in several bands, including Americana, blues and Celtic music. He and his wife travel to fun and exotic places as often as they can, taking cooking classes everywhere they go.
Barbara Ginn
Fiduciaire
Barbara Thornell Ginn opened a solo practice on February 1, 2010 focusing almost exclusively in the area of adoption law. Barbara continued to practice adoption law in Ohio almost exclusively until 2019 when her family moved to Naples, Collier County, Florida after Barbara accepted a position with Tate Healey Webster (previously, Jeanne T. Tate, P.A.). Barbara continued her adoption practice at Tate Healey Webster and expanded her practice to include assisted reproduction technology (ART) leaving in 2025 to join as a Founding Member at Foster + Bloom Family Formation Law Group.
Barbara has experience in adoption representing private adoption agencies, birthparents and adoptive parents. Additionally, she has been involved in innerstate and interstate adoptions; independent adoptions (including custodial adoptions), private agency adoptions, contested adoptions, re-finalization of international adoptions; stepparent adoptions and adult adoptions. Barbara has experience in ART practice representing intended parents, gestational carriers, donors and surrogacy agencies.
Barbara is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted-Reproduction Attorneys, a member of the Florida Adoption Council, Ohio Adoption Law Roundtable, the Florida Bar, the Ohio Bar, Collier County Bar Association (Florida) and Hamilton County Law Library (Ohio). Barbara earned her undergraduate degree from Northern Kentucky University in December 2003 and completed her J.D. at Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 2½ years, graduating in December 2006.
Foster care and adoption is not just a professional interest for Barbara and her family but also a personal interest. Barbara and her husband provided kinship care to a child from 2006-2007, which led to them ultimately becoming licensed foster parents from 2013 through 2018. After their move to Florida, Barbara and her family became licensed through Better Together and served as a host family for families in need of temporary out-of-home care for their children. Subsequently, they became licensed as Tier I foster parents in Florida. Barbara’s family has had the joy of providing temporary care for numerous children since 2006 and adopted two of their foster children. Barbara is a proud parent to 4 wonderful children!
Theresa L. Roetter
Fiduciaire
Theresa L. Roetter is a partner at DeWitt LLP, Madison, Wisconsin. She received her J.D. from Marquette University in 1993 and her bachelor of arts, cum laude, from St. Norbert College in 1988.
Ms. Roetter practices throughout the State of Wisconsin in the areas of assisted reproduction, adoption, and family law. She previously served four years on the Board of Trustees for the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, served two terms as the Academy Vice President in 2016-17 and 2023-24, assisted the Academy in forming the Family Formation Charitable Trust, serves on the Site Selection committee, and is co-chair of the 2024 annual conference which will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Theresa has been honored nationally as an Angel in Adoption™ by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, received the Champion of Adoption award from the governor of the state of Wisconsin, voted a family law Super Lawyer® every year since 2008 and recognized by Best Lawyers® in America since 2013. In 2022, Ms. Roetter was named Best Lawyer® of the Year in Collaborative Family Law-Madison, Wisconsin.
Ms. Roetter is a past chair and Director of the Children & the Law Section of the Wisconsin State Bar Association where she continues to serve on the legislation committee. She is a frequent speaker and author on topics of family formation, including a chapter on Independent Adoption to the State of Wisconsin Attorney’s Desk Reference, and contributing as co-author of a chapter on Family Formation and Protection in the Wisconsin State Bar book Advising the Evolving Family.
When not at work, she enjoys playing tennis, cycling, and traveling the world with her husband, Mark.
Nora Zuckerman
Fiduciaire
Nora Zuckerman co-founded Ross & Zuckerman, LLP with friend Heather Ross in 2005 to focus exclusively on the evolving legal landscape surrounding fertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART). With a career rooted in advocacy and access to justice, Nora brings decades of legal experience and deep compassion to her work helping build families.
Before founding the firm, Nora served as an attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (now Legal Aid Chicago), one of the nation’s leading nonprofit legal organizations. There, she represented low-income clients in a variety of civil legal matters including family and consumer law and served as a Senior Attorney in the Home Ownership Preservation Project, where she advocated for victims of predatory lending and represented clients facing foreclosure, tax sales, and bankruptcy.
Since shifting her practice to ART law, Nora has represented hundreds of clients each year—including intended parents, egg and sperm donors, embryo donors, and surrogates. Nora is known for her compassionate, attentive approach and her commitment to making complex legal processes more understandable and supportive.
In 2024, Nora was honored with the Lemonade Award from the Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation, a recognition given to individuals who turn challenging circumstances into positive impact. The award celebrated her unwavering commitment to reproductive law and her compassionate advocacy for individuals and families building their families through assisted reproduction.
Nora is a Fellow and Board Trustee of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), where she has served in multiple leadership roles, including CLE Co-Chair at the 2023 and 2024 annual conferences and Co-Chair of the Midyear Conference in 2024. She is also a member of the AAAA Ethics Committee.
Beyond her legal practice, Nora is deeply involved in community service. She is a founding committee member and was a longtime Co-Chair of Luggage for Freedom, a project of the National Council of Jewish Women that provides essential items and luggage to survivors in domestic violence shelters. She received NCJW’s Outstanding Leadership Award in 2023 and was named Volunteer of the Year in 2019. Nora also served for six years on the board of the Deerfield Parent Network, including two years as Co-President.
Rob Kirsh
Non-Voting Trustee
Rob Kirsh has been practicing law for 21 years, 15 of which in adoption law, beginning while he lived in Memphis, Tennessee. He practices with his brother Steve (AAAA Past President), brother Joel (AAAA Past Networking Chair), and nephew Grant. Combined, the "Kirsh Boys" have over 100 years of experience practicing adoption law, and, over the last 40 years, have handled nearly 4,000 infant adoptions.
Rob is admitted in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, and Tennessee, working with expectant moms, adoptive parents, attorneys, and adoption agencies on interstate/ICPC and intrastate adoptions. An instrument-rated Private Pilot, Rob flies the firm’s Columbia 350 airplane for adoptions across the Hoosier State, Land of Lincoln, Bluegrass State, Great Lakes State, Magnolia State, and Volunteer State regularly. Although a big territory, he can be anywhere from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, within a few hours, when a phone call or video chat isn't personal enough.
Rob earned his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree from Indiana University, his Juris Doctor degree from The University of Tulsa College of Law, and his Master of Science in Management (MBA) degree from the Purdue University Krannert Graduate School of Management. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), and serves on the Academy's Board of Trustees.
Rob and his wife Amy live in Carmel, a suburb of Indianapolis. Their daughter Campbell is a college student at Indiana, and their son Hudson is a student at Carmel High School. Their goldendoodle Wilson loves belly rubs, car rides, and going to the office with Rob. Rob is an avid cyclist (indoor and outdoor).
To Rob, there is no more fulfilling type of work. He loves helping expectant moms turn challenging situations into positive ones, creating loving adoptive families, and working with his family and other adoption professionals to do the same!
