News Release

2025-26 Officers and Newly-Elected and Re-Elected Members of the NACDL Board of Directors Installed at Annual Meeting

Washington, DC (July 14, 2025) – NACDL installed newly-elected officers and directors at its Annual Board and Membership Meeting on July 12.

NACDL's newly-elected officers and directors:

Executive Committee

President: Andrew S. Birrell (Minneapolis, MN)
President-Elect: C. Melissa "Missy" Owen (Charlotte, NC)
First Vice-President: Stephen Ross Johnson (Knoxville, TN)
Second Vice-President: Todd Pugh (Chicago, IL)
Secretary: Addy R. Schmitt (Washington, DC)
In addition, Norman Mueller will serve as Parliamentarian.

Board of Directors

Jonathan Brayman (Chicago, IL) 
Steven Epstein (East Meadow, NY) (Affiliate Representative)
Katherine McBroom (Beverly Hills, CA)
Joel Schwartz (Washington, DC)
Ian Wallach (Los Angeles, CA)

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Contacts

Jonathan Hutson, NACDL Senior Director of Public Affairs and Communications, 202-480-5343 or jhutson@nacdl.org

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is the preeminent organization advancing the mission of the criminal defense bar to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or wrongdoing. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's many thousands of direct members in 28 countries – and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys – include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness and promoting a rational and humane criminal legal system.