ACLU of Florida Board of Directors
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President
Mike Pheneger spent 30 years in the U.S. Army as an Intelligence Officer before retiring in 1993, serving in a variety of assignments in the U.S. and overseas. Mike first joined the ACLU in 1960. Mike is a frequent spokesman for the ACLU in local and national media, especially on issues relating to national security. He has been the representative to the national ACLU board for 6 years and is the first Florida board member to serve on ACLU National's Executive Committee. He served the ACLU of FL as its treasurer for several years from 2002 - February 2006, advocating for a strong cash flow position based on renewable income.
Vice President
Bill Schoolman holds a B.S. in Management and a Juris Doctor Degree. He has served in a number of senior management positions at both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. His last position before retiring was as the president of the American Pet Products Association (APPA) in Greenwich, Ct. APPA is the national trade association for the pet product industry with members from the US and international business community. Schoolman previously worked at the Professional Examination Service (PES) as the Executive Vice President and the American Institute of CPA's. Schoolman currently serves as the vice president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and has served as president of the ACLU of Florida's Broward Chapter.
National Board Representative
Lorie Fridell was elected to the Board and to the position of Secretary in February 2006. Dr. Fridell is a criminology professor at University of South Florida in Tampa. Her major research area is law enforcement; she is a national expert on both police use of force and racially biased policing. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she was the volunteer chair of the ACLU's Tallahassee Chapter, and also served as the state board secretary during those years. She then moved to Washington, D.C. for six years, returning to Florida in 2005. She has provided valuable advice to the board regarding the issue of non-lethal weapons such as Tasers.
Treasurer
Alan Scheib was a corporate controller and financial manager for a Fortune 200 aluminum company for 28 years. A graduate of New York University with an accounting degree, he is co-founder of a not-for-profit organization that provides free tax preparation services ffor low income taxpayers. Since relocating to Florida in 1999, he has been an active participant in the ACLU of Florida at both the State and Chapter levels. He has also served on the boards of not-for-profit organizations that operate assisted living residential facilities and nursing homes.
Chair of the Development Committee
Marcia Hayden serves as the Chair of the ACLU of Florida Board of Directors' Development Committee, working closely with the development staff to advance the fund-raising goals of the organization. Hayden is a graduate of National Louis University with a degree in Educational Therapy and is currently an Educational Consultant for Houghton Mifflin. Since 1986, she has served as Editorial Assistant with Scott, Foresman and Company; Managing Editor of Ebony Jr! magazine; Senior Editor of Reading with D.C. Heath and Company; Executive Editor of Reading at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Vice President of English as a Second Language and Adult Basic Education at Scott Foresman and Company; and Vice President of Operations with Vaughn Marketing Group.
Her past and present civic involvement includes: Chicago UNICEF, Detroit Urban League, Detroit Urban League Guild, Wellington Shores Homeowners Association, Wellington High School Advisory Council, Village of Wellington Education Committee, Urban League of Palm Beach County, Urban League of Palm Beach County Guild, Artists Showcase of the Palm Beaches, Black Alliance for Educational Options, Palm Beach Chapter, ACLU-Palm Beach and ACLU-Florida. Marcia Hayden has lectured at colleges, high schools, and elementary schools throughout the United States. In addition, she has been a panel member at many conferences: International Reading Assoc., National Black Child Developments Institute, Chicago Association of Black Journalists, EVERYCHILD, EDPRESS, TESOL, Children Reading Roundtable, and the DuSable Museum.
Chair of the Legal Panel
Mike Masinter has been a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University since 1978, specializing in civil rights law, employment discrimination law, and related subjects. The Legal Panel consists of a dedicated group of volunteer attorneys who review, and approve, all requests for legal action by the ACLU of Florida.
Affiliate Affirmative Action Officer
John De Leon is the managing partner of the Miami office of Chavez and De Leon, P.A. and has acted as lead counsel on cases involving sophisticated legal issues resulting in multi-million dollar awards. He obtained his Juris Doctor in 1986 from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. Mr. De Leon also holds a Masters of International Affairs from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, New York, New York (1992) and an A.B. from the University of Miami, Coral Gables Florida (1983).
Immediate Past President
Jeanne Baker is an attorney in private practice in Miami, specializing in criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels. She was elected to a 3rd consecutive term as president in February 2006, having served as a board member since the early 1990s. Prior, she served on the ACLU Boards of MA and VT. During her FL tenure, Jeanne has served for 6 years as FL's representative to the National Board. Jeanne has assisted on numerous ACLU cases since joining the organization in the mid-1970s. She has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors for the ACLU of FL, including a special gift to launch the organization's Religious Freedom Project.
ACLU of Florida Board of Directors
(Alphabetical - Updated July 2010)
- Ray Arsenault
- Jeanne Baker
- Roshawn Banks
- Michael Barfield
- Ahmed Bedier
- Michael Berman
- Jeff Borg
- Dale Boswell
- Shirley Boughton
- Lisa Bruno
- Elissa Buxbaum
- John De Leon
- Matt DeVlieger
- Barbara Engle
- Lorie Fridell
- George Griffin
- Samir Gupte
- Marcia Hayden
- Sandy Hoover
- Josephine Jackson
- Geoff Kashdan
- Shahla Khan
- Brad Koogler
- Mike Masinter
- Siobhan McLaughlin
- Andrea Flynn Mogensen
- Mike Pheneger
- Steve Phillippy
- Gerard "Jerry" Rifenburg
- Maria Rodriguez
- Ethel Rowland
- Sonya Rudenstine
- Carlene Sawyer
- Alan Scheib
- Mark Schneider
- Bill Schoolman
- Pamella Settlegoode
- Kim Slote
- Holly Stewart
- Jeanne Tanke
- Pete Tannen
- Khatanga von Heitman
- Lynn Weir
- Rosemary Wilder
- Darlene Williams
- Doug Wilson
