Board of Directors
Dr. Carmen Rojas
Chair
President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation
W. Clay Grubb
Vice Chair
CEO, Grubb Properties
Martin Rodgers
Treasurer
Market Unit Lead – US South, Accenture
Deborah Strauss Cogut
Secretary
Founder, Polyphony Foundation
Lan Bentsen
Angela Glover Blackwell
Zachary Boyers
Rev. Dr. Don Darius Butler
Malaak Compton-Rock
DD Eisenberg
Dr. Deborah Jewell-Sherman
Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
President & CEO
Children’s Defense FundCDF Board Emeriti
The Honorable Laphonza Butler,
Chair, 2022 – 2023
Geoffrey Canada,
Chair, 2008 – 2014
Lisle Carter, Jr.*
Laura Chasin*
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Esq.
Chair, 1986 – 1992
Maureen Cogan
Deborah S. Cogut, Esq.
Leonard Coleman, Jr.
Leslie Cornfeld, Esq.
Leslee Dart
John Deardourff*
Pat Fallon*
Rev. James Forbes, Jr.
James Forman, Jr., Esq.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Winifred Green*
George Gresham
Lucy Hackney, Esq.
Henry Hampton*
Howard Haworth*
Dorothy Height*
David Hornbeck, Esq.
Chair, 1994 – 2005
Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, Jr.
The Honorable James Joseph*,
Chair, 1993 – 1994
Deborah Leff, Esq.
Marilyn Levitt
William Lynch, Jr.*
Katie McGrath
Charles Merrill, Jr.
Heidi Miller
Eileen Norton
Ivanna Omeechevarria
Wendy Puriefoy
Leonard Riggio
Dennis Rivera
Johnathan Rodgers
The Honorable Donna E. Shalala,
Chair, 1992 – 1993
Barbara Shaw
J. Michael Solar, Esq.
Susan Thomases, Esq.
Thomas Troyer, Esq.
Jason Tyler
Robert Vagt,
Chair, 2005 – 2008
Laura Wasserman
Suzanne Weil
Ali Wentworth
Abigail Wexner, Esq.
Reese Witherspoon
Deborah Wright, Esq.
*deceased