Board of Directors

NOVA’s Board of Directors is composed of up to fifteen elected NOVA members committed to our mission. They each bring their expertise and knowledge to advance NOVA and improve the victim assistance field.

NOVA 2023 Board of Directors

Executive Board Members

David R. Thomas

Board President

Virginia

Angela Seguin

Board Vice President

Executive Director, Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, Delaware

Thomas Ebyl

Secretary

Senior Corporate Counsel, T-Mobile, Virginia

Suzannah Rogan

Treasurer

Assistant Director, Prevention & Education, California State University, Northridge

Washington, DC

Jeannette Adkins, MEd, LPC, CA

Immediate Past President

Executive Director (Ret.), Michael’s House Child Advocacy Center/Greene Co. Prosecutor’s Office, Ohio

Elected Board Members

Kaylyn Ahn

Northwestern Student, VAC Advisory Committee

Illinois

Ruby McChesney

Navy SAPR

South Carolina

Ryan Backmann

Project Cold Case, Inc.

Florida

Carolina Yepez

SHARP Program Manager, US Army

Europe

Edna Ramirez

Victim Advocate, North Little Rock Police Department

Arkansas

Melany P. Nelson

Advocate For Knowledge

Pennsylvania

Paul Freeman

Victim Specialist, Federal Bureau of Investigation (Retired)

North Carolina

Elizabeth Cronin

Director, New York State Office of Victim Services

New York

Rosie Martinez

Victim Unit Director, Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office

Texas

Advisory Board Members

Beth Rossman

Past Chairperson, Training Chair, Florida Crisis Response Team Inc., V.P. H&R Consulting, Florida

Shawn M. Cox

Victim Services Division of the Maricopa County Victim Attorney’s Office

Brandon Wolf

Equality, Florida

D. Michael Sheline

Assistant Section Chief, Chief-Crime Victims Section, Office of Ohio Attorney General, Ohio

Brenda J. Muhammad

Executive Director, Atlanta Victim Assistance, Inc., Georgia

Michaelene O’Neill McCann

Attorney ADA and Chief Victim Witness Services (Ret.), Essex  District Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts

Barbara Kendall

NOVA Crisis Response Training Coordinator (Ret.), Colorado

Hon. Lois Haight-Harrington

Judge of Superior Court, California

John W. Gillis

Gillis Consulting Group LLC, Arizona

Hon. Collene Thompson Campbell

Darlene Hutchinson Biehl

Former Director, Office for Victims of Crime, Alabama

Rhonda S. Barner

Director (Ret.), Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office Victim/Witness Division, Florida

Andy Yurick, J.D.

Law Offices of Andrew N. Yurick, New Jersey

Steve Twist

Founder, Arizona Voice for Crime Victims, Arizona

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