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State Planning Structure and Leadership Chart

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

Membership: Affiliation: Purposes:
Bill Davis, Chair FBF Broad Oversight
Ham Cook FBF
John Kest Florida Bar/State Pro Bono Assure accountability
Sharon Langer PDA/State Pro Bono/Board of Governors
Emerson Thompson FBF/Judiciary Seeks input from a broad array of stakeholders
Marcus Jiminez FBF
Alison Thompson PDA Approves final state plan
Drew O'Malley FBF (Exec. Committee)
Dick Woltmann PDA
John Cunningham PDA
Kent Spuhler FLS
Tony Karrat PDA
Helen Neal Pore Client Community

PROJECT DIRECTORS' ASSOCIATION

Membership: Purposes:
Executive directors of legal services with three or more staff attorneys and/or a budget of at least $250,000.00 To approve the recommendation of the coordinating committee

COORDINATING COMMITTEE

Membership: Purposes:
Chairs of the Action Committees Consider recommendations of the action committees and makes final recommendations to the PDA
Paul Doyle Cross fertilization, sharing, and development of committee leadership skills 
Alice Nelson will convene the coordinating committee meetings Integrates action committee plans into a draft state plan

ACTION COMMITTEES

Membership (Chairs) Action Committees to Promote and Support Energetic Affirmative Client Advocacy General Purposes:
Bill Abbuehl/Marcia Cypen
Dick Woltmann/Bob Bertisch
Don Issacs
Mary Anne DePetrillo
John Cunningham
Linda Moore
Resource Development

Vision

Technology
Legislative/Administrative Advocacy
Collaboration
Training and Technical Assistance
To study the problems and opportunities in the main areas of inquiry developed by the client advocacy committee's survey and at the PDA retreat.