2024-25 Officers and Newly-Elected and Re-Elected Members of the NACDL Board of Directors Installed at Annual Meeting – Washington, DC (July 29, 2024)

Washington, DC (July 29, 2024)– NACDL installed newly-elected officers and directors at its Annual Board and Membership Meeting on July 27.

NACDL's newly-elected officers and directors:

Executive Committee

President:Christopher A. Wellborn (Rock Hill, SC)

President-Elect:Andrew S. Birrell (Minneapolis, MN)

First Vice-President:C. Melissa "Missy" Owen (Charlotte, NC)

Second Vice-President: Stephen Ross Johnson (Knoxville, TN)

Secretary: Todd Pugh (Chicago, IL)

Treasurer: Ramon de la Cabada (Miami, FL)

In addition,  Addy R. Schmitt will serve as Parliamentarian.

Board of Directors

Alice Fontier (New York, NY)

JoEllyn Jones (Glassboro, NJ)

Molly Parmer (Atlanta, GA)

James Boren (Baton Rouge, LA) (Affiliate Representative)

Contacts

Jessie Diamond, Deputy Director, Public Affairs and Communications, (202) 465-7647 or jdiamond@nacdl.org

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is the preeminent organization advancing the mission of the criminal defense bar to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or wrongdoing. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's many thousands of direct members in 28 countries – and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys – include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness and promoting a rational and humane criminal legal system.