Foundation Board of Directors

President

Skip Horne is the Director of Graduate Programs & Continuing Education at the University of San Diego School of Law. Prior to USD, he was 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. He has also served in various administrative leadership 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 where they both perform with the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus.

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

Lawrie E. Demorest is a member of Alston & Bird’s Toxic Tort team and focuses her practice on complex litigation including mass torts, class actions and commercial matters. Ms. Demorest has experience defending toxic tort, medical device and pharmaceutical and consumer products cases in a variety of jurisdictions around the country, all of which involve extensive work with expert witnesses in various fields of science and medicine. She has served on several national trial and litigation teams including multi-district litigation and class actions, and has tried over 55 cases to juries with a highly favorable success rate. Ms. Demorest's representation has encompassed pre-litigation counseling, crisis management, developing and implementing strategies to shut down pending and potential individual and class actions, managing local counsel and mass trial dockets, and effecting settlements through various forms of alternative dispute resolution and non-litigation solutions. Additional consumer products and toxic tort cases Ms. Demorest has defended include representation of a national railroad in the defense of solvent-related injuries by railroad workers, landlords sued for lead paint-related injuries, an optical solutions manufacturer and food suppliers. Ms. Demorest has also defended medical malpractice cases for 25 years. During that time she has represented hospitals, clinics, physicians of various specialties, nurses and other health care providers on a breadth of issues. She served as Northeast and Southeast Regional Counsel to a national owner of behavioral health facilities, managing and directing their litigation in 10 states. Ms. Demorest has served on the faculty of the Atlanta Institute of Trial Advocacy and is a past member of the Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court. She is a member of the Defense Research Institute and a lecturer on topics common to product liability and medical malpractice litigation. Ms. Demorest also served on the editorial board of the journal Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy. She is a member of the board of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

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.

John V. Treviño, Jr. is an in-house attorney in the Litigation Section at American Airlines, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas. At American, John manages a wide variety of commercial litigation matters for the company. In addition, John is responsible for developing and implementing all global privacy and data protection initiatives for American. Prior to joining American, John practiced with the firm Beirne, Maynard and Parson, L.L.P. in Houston, Texas from 1999 to 2005. He was also law clerk to the Honorable Hilda G. Tagle, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, Brownsville Division 1998-1999. John is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association, Dallas Hispanic Bar Association, and the State Bar of California. John received his J. D. from the University of Texas in 1997. John also received his B.A. from the University of Texas in 1994. Prior to law school, John worked as a communications-computer systems manager and military training instructor in the U.S. Air Force.

Past Foundation Board Presidents