List of AIPAC officers
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Officers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) include the following people.

Current officers

Current AIPAC senior management (and their US party-affiliation, if known), are listed here:
  • Executive Director: Howard Kohr
  • Managing Director: Richard Fishman.
  • President: Lee Rosenberg, 2010-2012, Chicago, Illinois.

Previous Executive Directors

  • Neal Sher
    Neal Sher
    Neal M. Sher is an American lawyer who is the former head of the Office of Special Investigations and former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee . Since 2002, he has been a solo practitioner in New York City....

     Esq., 1994-1996.
  • Thomas Dine
    Thomas Dine
    Thomas A. Dine is chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Previously he was president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, a position he held from August 1997 to 2005. From 1993 to 1997, he served as Assistant...

    , 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.http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0993/9309012.html
  • Morris J. Amitay
    Morris J. Amitay
    Morris J. "Morrie" Amitay, is a former Executive Director of AIPAC , currently Vice Chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs , and is the founder and treasurer of the Washington Political Action Committee.Amitay was born in New York City...

    , 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
    Bernice Manocherian
    Bernice Manocherian is the former President of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. She is a member of AIPAC's National Board of Directors.-References:* - article by Manocherian on US-Israeli ties....

    , 2004-2006
  • Amy Friedkin
    Amy Friedkin
    Amy Rothschild Friedkin was the first female president of AIPAC, from May 2002 until May 2004, then served as the national chair of AIPAC's board.- Biography :...

    , 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
    Steven Grossman (political operative)
    Steve Grossman is the Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts.-Education:Grossman received his Bachelor's from Princeton University, and his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.-Political career:...

    , 1992-1996, communications executive and Democratic Party chairman
  • David Steiner
    David Steiner (AIPAC)
    David Steiner was President of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , and later was a New Jersey real-estate developer.-Controversy and resignation from AIPAC:...

    , 1990-1992, New Jersey real estate developer
  • Larry Weinberg (businessman)
    Larry Weinberg (businessman)
    Larry Weinberg is an American real estate developer who was one of the founders of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. Weinberg is a US military veteran who served in the US 6th Army Group as and infantry grunt during World War II. He was severely wounded in combat in France and spent over a year...

    , 1988-1990, a real-estate broker in Los Angeles (and a former owner of the Portland Trail Blazers
    Portland Trail Blazers
    The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The Trail Blazers originally played their home games in the...

    )
  • 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".http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=6166) There are also state-level and some city-level AIPAC boards.

Other notable National Board members include:
  • Mickey Kantor
    Mickey Kantor
    Michael "Mickey" Kantor is an American politician and lawyer. After serving as the Clinton-Gore campaign chair in 1992, Kantor was appointed United States Trade Representative, holding that office from 1993 to 1997. He was, in 1996 and 1997, United States Secretary of Commerce.-Life and...

  • former Senator Rudy Boschwitz
    Rudy Boschwitz
    Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz is a former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, in the 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses. He was then defeated by Paul Wellstone.-Life and career:Boschwitz was born...

     (R-Minn
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

    .)
  • S. Daniel Abraham
    S. Daniel Abraham
    S. Daniel Abraham is an American businessman who was born and raised in Long Beach, New York. He is frequently included in Forbes 400 list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, and is notable for his introduction of the Slim-Fast line of diet products in the late 1970s. Forbes estimates his net worth...

     (Democrat)
  • Steven Grossman - former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
    Democratic National Committee
    The Democratic National Committee is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support...

     (Democrat)
  • Norman Brownstein - prominent Denver lawyer, was an early financial backer of the Kerry campaign (Democrat)
  • Larry A. Mizel
    Larry Mizel
    Larry A. Mizel is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc.-Education and Career:Larry A. Mizel graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma in 1964, and with a JD from the University of Denver College of Law in 1967.With...

     - prominent Denver CEO (Republican)

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:
  • Malcolm Hoenlein
    Malcolm Hoenlein
    Malcolm Hoenlein is the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since June 1986. He is the founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.Born in...

  • June Walker (Hadassah)
    June Walker (Hadassah)
    June Walker was the Chairperson of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and a member of AIPAC's Executive Committee. Until July 2007, she was the national president of Hadassah....


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