Glenn Dornfeld

  

Role in the Family Section	Co-Chair, Conference Committee
Email Address	gdornfeld@acrfamilysection.org
State of Residence	New York
Experience in ACR	Co-chair of 2006 and 2008 Bi-Annual Conferences. Participated in Ethics Symposiums to develop Model Standards. Advanced Practitioner Member of ACR/FS.
Personal/Professional Experience in Conflict Management	Mediator in consumer matters, New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Newark NJ, June 1992 - June 1993.   Community mediator; mediator and coordinator of divorce mediation program, Community Mediation Services, Jamaica, NY, August 1993 - May 1995.   Mediator in family & divorce matters, Center for Family & Divorce Mediation, New York, NY, May 1995 - present.   Attorney concentrating in legal work connected with family/divorce mediations, New York, NY, May 1995 - present.   Trainer of general mediators and family/divorce mediators, October 1998 - present.   President, Family & Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, December 1994 - August 1999.   President, New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, May 2003 - May 2005.   Founder/convener, Coalition of New York State Conflict Resolution Organizations, September 2002 - May 2006.   In addition, I have served on a great number and wide variety of committees and projects in the filed of mediation, especially family & divorce mediation.

 

 

Role in the Family Section	Chair, Training Committee
Email Address	druth-heffelbower@acrfamilysection.org
State of Residence	CA
Experience in ACR	Advanced Practitioner Member of ACR/FS and AFM before it. Web editor for Criminal and Restorative Justice section and Central California Chapter. Member Family, Workplace, Criminal and Restorative Justice Sections. Member of the board of Central California Chapter since inception.
Personal/Professional Experience in Conflict Management	Attorney admitted to the California Bar in 1974, founding member of Central Valley. Collaborative Law Affiliates, victimologist, professional mediator, facilitator and intervention specialist since 1985. Pastor, trained and experienced counselor, teacher of alternative dispute resolution. Thousands of cases handled as advocate, mediator, arbitrator or facilitator in everything from schoolyard fights to international disputes between governments. Thousands of people trained in conflict resolution on five continents in over a hundred languages with a specialty in inter-religious and cross-cultural disputes. Director of graduate academic programs in peacemaking and conflict studies for the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies of Fresno Pacific University. http://peace.fresno.edu

 

  

      Mary Ann Lawson

 

Term Ends 2011

 

 

Role in the Family Section	Immediate Past Chair, Section Advisory Council Chair, Nominations Committee Secretary
Email Address	malawson@acrfamilysection.org
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Role in the Family Section	Co-Chair, Membership Committee
Email Address	rshields@acrfamilysection.org
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Personal/Professional Experience in Conflict Management	Rick is a lawyer, mediator, arbitrator, and trainer. Admitted to the practice of law in Ontario, Canada in 1976, he now restricts his professional practice to collaborative family law, family mediation, and family arbitration. Rick has an M.A. in Conflict Resolution, an LL.M. in ADR, and a Ph.D in Adult Education. He is certified as a specialist in family law by the Law Society of Upper Canada and as a comprehensive family mediator by Family Mediation Canada. Rick is also designated by the ADR Institute of Canada as a Chartered Mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator. He is an adjunct professor in negotiation and mediation in the dispute resolution programs of York University and McMaster University and a family mediation, family arbitration, and collaborative family law and practice trainer. Rick is co-author with Judith Ryan and Victoria Smith of Collaborative Family Law: Another Way to Resolve Family Disputes, published by Thomson Carswell in 2003.

 

  

Evan Ash

 

  

 

 

Term Ends 2011

 

 

Role in the Family Section	Chair, Programming Committee
Email Address	eash@acrfamilysection.org
State of Residence	Kansas
Experience in ACR	Advanced Practitioner Member, 2003 to present, Practitioner Member, 2001-2002
Personal/Professional Experience in Conflict Management	Evan has been a domestic mediator in Kansas=s Tenth Judicial District since 1995, and serves as the supervisor for its clinical mediation programs. His mediating experience began informally as a chaplain, and later with the Wichita Neighborhood Justice Center. He has taught mediation courses at Johnson County Community College and Missouri Western State University, made numerous presentations and written articles on mediation, grief, anger, and other related topics. He is a past President of the Heartland Mediators Association and a member of the Standards/Ethics Sub-Committee of the Kansas Office of Judicial Administration=s Dispute Resolution Advisory Council. He holds masters degrees from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and the University of Nebraska. As an Episcopal Priest, he has served parishes and institutions in Nebraska, Oregon, and Kansas.

 

    

Marilyn McKnight

 

Term Ends 2012

 

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Louise Phipps Senft

 

Term Ends 2012

 

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Paula Trout

 

Term Ends 2011

 

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