List of AIPAC officers
Officers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) include the following people.
Current officers
Current AIPAC senior management are listed here:
- Executive Director: Howard Kohr
- Managing Director: Richard Fishman.
- President: Lee Rosenberg, 2010-2012, Chicago, Illinois.
- Chief Financial Officer: Chrystal Kern
Previous Executive Directors
- Neal Sher Esq., 1994-1996.
- Thomas Dine, 1980-1993. In this time, AIPAC grew from 24 employees and a budget of $1.4 million to 158 employees and a budget of $15 million. Membership climbed from 8,000 to a claimed 55,000. Dine reportedly earned $500,000/year.[1]
- Morris J. Amitay, 1974-1980.
Previous Presidents
Past AIPAC Presidents, their tenures, career, and US party-affiliation (if known), are listed here in reverse chronological order:
- David Victor, 2008-2010
- Howard Friedman, 2006-2008
- Bernice Manocherian, 2004-2006
- Amy Friedkin, 2002-2004, San Francisco, active in grassroots Jewish organizations.
- Tim Wuliger, 2000-2002, Cleveland investor
- Lonny Kaplan, 1998-2000, New Jersey insurance executive.
- Melvin Dow, 1996-1998, a Houston attorney
- Steven Grossman, 1992-1996, communications executive and Democratic Party chairman
- David Steiner, 1990-1992, New Jersey real estate developer
- Larry Weinberg (businessman), 1988-1990, a real-estate broker in Los Angeles (and a former owner of the Portland Trail Blazers)
- Mayer "Bubba" Mitchell, 1986-1988, a scrap-metal dealer in Mobile, Alabama
- Edward Levy, Jr., 1984-1986, a building-supplies executive in Detroit
- Robert Asher, 1982-1984, a lighting-fixtures dealer in Chicago
Notable Board members
AIPAC's National Board has approximately 50 members. By tradition, previous Presidents serve as Board members, and are not listed separately here. (Asher, Levy, Mitchell, and Weinberg were sometimes referred to as the "Gang of Four".[2]) There are also state-level and some city-level AIPAC boards.
Other notable National Board members include:
Notable Executive Committee members
All members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations serve on AIPAC's Executive Committee. Notable members include:
See also
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