Board Members
Robert is a semi-retired attorney specializing in intellectual property and contract law. He came to Nevada after working in the Los Angeles entertainment industry. He has been a member of the board of the ACLU of Nevada since 1999. As Vice President, he serves on the Executive Committee, and he is also Nevada's representative on the National ACLU Board. He lives at Lake Tahoe, serves on other non-profit boards, and is currently President of Barton Healthcare System, serving South Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley.
Lisa is an attorney with a solo private practice in Las Vegas. She specializes in criminal defense, civil litigation, and appeals. She is an executive officer and board member of Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice and is also a member of the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers. Prior to law school she owned a sentencing consulting business in San Diego specializing in the development and presentation of mitigating evidence for sentencing purposes and in death penalty cases. While a graduate student in the Sociology Department at San Diego State University, Lisa worked on a two-year grant project through the National Institute of Health designed to facilitate the reintegration and rehabilitation of dually diagnosed, homeless veterans within San Diego County.
Marc is currently the Senior Administrative Assistant with the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, a key leadership position in the union. He is also the Chairman of the Southern Nevada Carpenters and Millwrights Journeyman and Training Trust and has been a proponent for the rights of Latino workers to join building trades unions and for continued access to training. He also serves on the boards of several non-profits; the United Labor Agency of Nevada, and the Nevada Boy’s State Foundation. Prior to his current position, he was National Director of Organizing for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America out of Washington, D.C.
Since joining the ACLU in 1962, Roger has served with ACLU affiliates in Washington, California, Hawaii and Virginia (president of the Hampton Roads Chapter for four years). Upon retiring from the US Navy in 1992 and moving to Nevada, Roger has been very active member the ACLU of Nevada, and currently serves as its Secretary. Roger has broadened his activist activities in other areas as well, he is currently serving as the Chairman of the Regional Transportation Commission’s Public Transportation Advisory Committee and the Citizens Advisory Committee.
Rachel Anderson is a law professor at UNLV and teaches international human rights and business courses. She is a native Nevadan and a graduate of Reed High School in Sparks, the University of California Berkeley School of Law, and has a M.A. from Stanford University in International Policy. Rachel is a prolific scholar and has published in the areas of business, human rights, and legal education in a book chapter and articles in legal periodicals. She is on the executive board of the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association and is a member of the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys. She also advises two student groups, the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and the International Law Society.
Peter Ashman is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Southwestern University School of Law. He is an attorney practicing immigration law in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has held several national positions with the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is the only Nevadan ever elected to its Board of Governors. He currently serves as a Trustee for the American Immigration Law Foundation. He joined the ACLU of Nevada Board in 2007.
Stephen teaches First Amendment law in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has written about constitutional law for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and the First Amendment Center. He is a contributing editor of the Wilson Quarterly and the editor of the International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law.
Richard Siegel has served the ACLU of Nevada affiliate since one year after its founding in 1966. For much of the period from 1967 to 2000 he was an officer of the Nevada ACLU’s board and was for a number of years state vice-president. From 2000 until 2010 he was president of the affiliate (the title given to the chairperson of its board of directors). He was a member of the ACLU National Board of Directors from 1975 to 1988 and helped create the national ACLU programs in public education and international human rights. Rich is now Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of Nevada, Reno, where he continues to teach international human rights and world politics. He writes a regular op-ed column in the Reno Gazette-Journal and is completing a book on the death penalty. Rich currently serves as an appointed member of Nevada’s Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice and as an active member of Washoe County’s Education Collaborative. He recently ended his term as chairperson of the Nevada Committee on Foreign Relations.
Mary has been a member of the Nevada Board of Directors since 1998, and also serves as the Political Action Chair for the Reno/Sparks chapter of the NAACP. She is additionally involved with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and has served as a board member for Washoe Legal Services and the Northern Nevada Soccer League.
