Miami Lighthouse Board

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Miami Lighthouse Board of Directors is comprised of a diverse and dynamic group of volunteers, who provide leadership and support to ensure the vitality of the organization.

The Miami Lighthouse Board adopted a contemporary high-impact governance model in early 2007 which channels the energy and talents of board members in three areas of governance: monitoring, planning, and external relations. Further, it facilitates a close, enduring, and truly effective Board-CEO partnership which has a significant impact in organizational affairs.

		Name:		Owen S. Freed, Esq.
		Position:		Chairman of the Board
		Profession:		Owen S. Freed, senior counsel at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson P.A. in Miami, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Inc. on December 10, 2008. Mr. Freed has served as Chairman of the Lighthouse’s External Relations Committee for two years and has served on the Miami Lighthouse Board of directors since 2006. Mr. Freed’s practice has concentrated on international law, foreign investments and international transactions. He spent one undergraduate year as an exchange student in the University of Honduras and subsequently was a Rotary Foundation Fellow in the School of Law of the National University in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the University of Miami. Mr. Freed has served as president of the Rotary Club of Coral Gables and the Rotary Club of Miami. As a Rotarian he became interested and active in the Miami Lighthouse which was founded in 1931 as a joint venture of the Miami Rotary Club and the Miami Lions Club. Mr. Freed’s wife, Sheila Freed, is President of Temple Judea in Coral Gables. They have three children and five grandchildren.
		Name:		John B. Henderson, Esq.
		Position:		Secretary
		Profession:		Retired Attorney, former Vice President, Textron Industries
		Name:		Michael A. Silva, Esq.
		Position:		Chairman-Elect
		Profession:		Director of South Florida’s Tax and Trust and Estate Departments, Hunton & Williams, LLP
		Name:		John H.B. Harriman
		Position:		Treasurer
		Profession:		Senior Director, The Standard Chartered Private Bank
		Name:		William R. Roy, Ph.D.
		Position:		Immediate Past Chairman
		Profession:		Senior Partner, Kelley Swofford Roy, Inc
		Name:		Alan P. Levitt, O.D.
		Position:		Board Director/Chair of Planning and Program Development Committee and Heiken Advisory Committee Member
		Profession:		Doctor of Optometry
		Name:		Ramon Casas
		Position:		Board Director and Chair of External Relations/Resource Development Committee
		Profession:		Principal, Wragg & Casas Public Relations
		Name:		David M. Turner III, C.P.A.
		Position:		Board Director and Chair of Audit Committee
		Profession:		President, Turner & Associates, LLP
		Name:		Agustin R. Arellano, Jr.
		Position:		Chair of Performance Oversight and Monitoring Committee and Co-Chair Young Professionals of Lighthouse (YPOL)
		Profession:		Vice President, Arellano Construction
		Name:		Kent M. Benedict
		Position:		Board Director and Co-chair Young Professionals of Lighthouse (YPOL)
		Profession:		2nd Vice President of Trust and Administration, Northern Trust Bank
		Name:		Donna R. Blaustein, Esq.
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Law Office of Donna R. Blaustein Ms. Blaustein has her own practice located in Aventura in the area of estate planning, probate, trust and guardianship administration.
		Name:		Sander R. Dubovy, M.D.
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Physician/Associate Professor, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital
		Name:		Pamela J. Garrison
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Community Leader and Philanthropist
		Name:		Peter R. Harrison
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Senior Vice President, Transwestern Commercial Services
		Name:		Edward J. Joyce
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Senior Vice President and Management Director, Northern Trust Bank
		Name:		Joanne Kundl, O.D.
		Position:		Board Director and Heiken Advisory Committee Member
		Profession:		Doctor of Optometry
		Name:		Gloria Martin
		Position:		Board Member
		Profession:		Owner, Sherry’s Bag/Philanthropist
		Name:		Charles J. Nielson
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		AFSB, Producer, President of Nielson and Company, Inc.
		Name:		Louis Nostro, Esq.
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Managing partner of the Miami office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he also serves as chair of the Trusts and Estates Practice Group
		Name:		Carol P. Russo
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Community Leader
		Name:		Yolly Roberson, R.N., Esq.
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		State Representative, Florida House of Representatives, District 104/ Principal, Roberson & Associates
		Name:		Shelley D. Rutherford
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Community Leader and Philanthropist
		Name:		Scott K. Sime
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		President, Holly Sime Real Estate/TCN Worldwide
		Name:		Bruce J. Winick, Esq.
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Professor of Law, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, University of Miami School of Law
		Name:		John Zamora, C.P.A.
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Partner/Florida Audit Practice Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
		Name:		Teresa S. Zohn, GRI
		Position:		Board Director
		Profession:		Realtor, Esslinger Wooten Maxwell

HONORARY BOARD
Agustin R. Arellano, Sr.
Karl Bishopric
Alvaro M. Cabrera
Joseph E. DaGrosa, Jr
Joseph A. Fernandez, C.F.P.
Gary D. Fox, Esq.
Lorenzo Jackson, Jr., Esq.
Susan P. Kelley
J. Megan Kelly
Donald W. Marx
David B. McCrea, Esq.
William L. Morrison
D. Alan Nichols
Audrey H. Ross, Ph.D.
H. Jack Ross
Donald J. Sackrider
Harold L. Young, Jr.

LEGAL COUNSEL
Rene Gonzalez-Llorens, Esq.
Anthony T. Golden, Esq.

LEGAL COUNSEL EMERITUS
Preston L. Prevatt, Esq.

President and Chief Executive Officer
Virginia A. Jacko

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