List of AIPAC officers

Officers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee include:

Current officers

Current AIPAC senior management are listed here:

Executive Director: Howard Kohr
Managing Director: Richard Fishman
Chief Financial Officer: Chrystal Kern

Previous Executive Directors

Neal Sher Esq., 1994–1996
Thomas Dine, 1980–1993. In this time, AIPAC grew from 24 employees and a budget of $1.4 million to 158 employees and a budget of $15 million. Membership climbed from 8,000 to a claimed 55,000. Dine reportedly earned $500,000/year.[1]
Morris J. Amitay, 1974–1980

Previous Presidents

Past AIPAC Presidents, their tenures, career, and U.S. party-affiliation (if known), are listed here in reverse chronological order:

Howard Friedman, 1986–1989
Bernice Manocherian, 1984–1986
Amy Friedkin, 1981–1984, San Francisco, active in grassroots Jewish organizations.
Tim Wuliger, 1980–1981, Cleveland investor
Lonny Kaplan, 1978–1980, New Jersey insurance executive.
Melvin Dow, 1976–1978, a Houston attorney
Steven Grossman, 1976–1976, communications executive and Democratic Party chairman
David Steiner, 1970–1976, New Jersey real estate developer
Larry Weinberg (businessman), 1968–1970, a real-estate broker in Los Angeles (and a former owner of the Portland Trail Blazers)
Mayer "Bubba" Mitchell, 1965–1968, a scrap-metal dealer in Mobile, Alabama
Edward Levy, Jr., 1964–1965, a building-supplies executive in Detroit
Robert Asher, 1962–1964, a lighting-fixtures dealer in Chicago

Notable Board members

AIPAC's National Board has approximately 50 members. By tradition, previous Presidents serve as Board members, and are not listed separately here. (Asher, Levy, Mitchell, and Weinberg were sometimes referred to as the "Gang of Four".[2]) There are also state-level and some city-level AIPAC boards.

Other notable National Board members include:

Mickey Kantor
former Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minn.)^{[clarification needed]}
S. Daniel Abraham (Democrat)
Steven Grossman - former chairman of the Democratic National Committee (Democrat)
Norman Brownstein - prominent Denver lawyer, was an early financial backer of the Kerry campaign (Democrat)
Larry A. Mizel - prominent Denver CEO (Republican)

Notable Executive Committee members

All members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations serve on AIPAC's Executive Committee. Notable members include:

External links

AIPAC site
CPMAJO site, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations