Foundation Board of Directors

President

John T. Hendricks is an associate with Lafayette & Kumagai in San Francisco, CA. His practice focuses on defending management in employment litigation involving Fortune 500 companies, health care, and public entity clients. He also is experienced with general commercial litigation, and has worked in-house for a leading Silicon Valley internet telecommunications company. Mr. Hendricks earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he received the John L. Brennan Award for trial advocacy.

Mr. Hendricks is a Director of the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (2003-2004 and 2006-present), the nation's oldest and largest regional LGBT bar association. Additionally, Mr. Hendricks is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco Equality Subcommittee on LGBT Issues, and a contributor to its pioneering report published in November 2007.

Past President

Scott Morgan Mr. Morgan has been the co-chair of Thomson Reuters' participation at the LGBT Bar's Annual Career Fair and Conference for seven years and has had success in networking with individuals across Thomson North American Legal and the LGBT Bar  to coordinate Thomson Reuters' presence and sponsorship at the career fair and conference.  He has served on the Foundation board since 2005 and strives to bring his business expertise to help grow the Career Fair and Conference, the Foundation, and the Association membership. Scott joined the Thomson Corporation, a leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers, in 1988. He currently serves as a departmental manager and is also the product developer and content owner of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender practice tab on Westlaw. Scott was the co-founder of the Thomson Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends Employee Resource Group in 2001 and served as its co-chair through 2004. Scott graduated Magna Cum Laude from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.  Scott is also a graduate of the Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul and is bar admitted in Minnesota.  He is originally from Lexington, KY and currently lives in Eagan, MN with his partner.

Secretary

Todd Brown is the Managing Attorney of several Liberty Mutual Insurance Group Staff Counsel offices: The Law Offices of Brown & Black in Boston, Massachusetts and the Law Offices of Brown, Sherry & Geller in Raynham, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. He was admitted to practice in 1989 and joined Liberty Mutual the same year. In addition to managing the offices, Attorney Brown practices in the areas of general liability, construction, SIU, premises liabiliy and multiparty complex litigation. He has significant experience handling complex and high exposure environmental, restaurant, subrogation and transportation matters. Attorney Brown received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The George Washington University where he spent a year abroad at the London School of Economics. He received his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law. He is a member of the State Bars of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Arizona. He is a past or present member of The Massachusetts AIDS Action Committee, Mass Equlity, the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association and COLAGE (Children of Lesbians an Gays Everywhere). He also serves as an Overseer to the Board of Directors of the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard Massachusetts. He is married to Rob Cullinane and has two teenaged boys.

Treasurer

Charles M. Sprock, Jr. ("Casey") is a partner with the firm Baldwin & Sutphen, LLP, Syracuse, NY, where he focuses in the areas of Real Estate Law, Estate Planning & Asset Protection, Trust & Estate Administration and Adoptions. A large percentage of his client base is comprised of non-traditional families. He is a graduate of Colgate University (B.A., Honors in Philosophy) and Notre Dame Law School. He is also an adjunct faculty member with three colleges at Syracuse University (the College of Law, the Maxwell School and University College) as well as Colgate University. His teaching and course designs have earned him several awards. He advises the College of Law’s gay/straight alliance (Outlaw) and coaches the group’s Moot Court Team, which competes at UCLA’s Williams Institute’s Annual Sexual Orientation and the Law National Moot Court Competition. In 2006, his team won the competition. Mr. Sprock also serves on the boards of United Way of Central New York and SAGE Upstate.

At-Large Board Member

Skip Horne is a former Global Recruiting Manager for Latham & Watkins LLP where he supported the firm’s efforts in diversity hiring, law school and LLM outreach, and international hiring for over 2,300 attorneys in 28 offices worldwide. Prior to joining Latham in 2004, he served in various administrative roles at Santa Clara University School of Law, The University of Texas School of Law and the Darden School at the University of Virginia. Skip was President of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) in 2002-03 and has the honor of being the association’s first openly gay President. He has also taught public speaking and managerial communications on the graduate and undergraduate levels. Skip earned a BSFS in International Politics from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. He and his partner, Andy Ceperley, live in San Diego, CA.

Mary Meeks is a commercial litigator with Carlton Fields, P.A., in its Orlando, Florida office, practicing primarily employment law as well as intellectual property law, and is an Adjunct Professor at Barry University School of Law. Mary serves on the Boards of the Florida ACLU Legal Panel, the Metropolitan Business Association of Central Florida (LGBT Chamber of Commerce), and Equality Florida’s Central Florida Steering Committee; is the leader of OneOrlando.org (a social justice coalition); writes a monthly column for Watermark (Florida’s LGBT magazine); and is Co-Executive Producer (with her partner Vicki) of two award-winning documentaries on LGBT issues.

Irene M. Recio focuses her practice on immigration law, with an emphasis on employment issues and consular processing.  She has successfully represented individual and corporate clients in affirmative filings with the U.S. Government, including applications for temporary and permanent residency and naturalization, as well as defensive procedures before the U.S. Department of State and Immigration Court.  As part of her practice, Irene has also represented clients seeking political asylum in the United States on the basis of prior persecution as a result of political opinion, gender, religion, and sexual orientation, and has considerable experience with international adoptions.  Irene is involved in numerous pro bono efforts representing individuals in deportation proceedings and as counsel to non-profit organizations including the Whitman Walker Clinic and the Rappahanock Council on Domestic Violence.