FEMA National Advisory Council Members


CATEGORY:  EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
*	Dr. G. Kemble “Kem” Bennett (TX) – NAC Chair - Vice Chancellor for 
Engineering and Dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M 
University
*	Joseph Bruno (NY) – Commissioner of the New York City Office of Emergency 
Management
*	Kenneth Murphy (OR) - Director of Oregon Emergency Management & Past 
President of the National Emergency Management Association
CATEGORY:  EMERGENCY RESPONSE
*	Stephen Cassidy (NY) – President of the Uniformed Firefighters Assoc. of Greater 
New York
*	Brigadier General Donald Dunbar (WI) - Adjutant General of Wisconsin
*	James Featherstone (CA) - General Manager, Emergency Management Department, 
City of Los Angeles 

CATEGORY:  PUBLIC HEALTH
*	Dr. Christina Lynne Catlett (MD) – Associate Director, The Johns Hopkins Office 
of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) and Assistant Professor in the 
Department of Emergency Medicine

CATEGORY:  EMERGENCY MEDICAL PROVIDER
*	Angelia Mary Elgin, R.N. (MO) – Instructor at the IHM Health Studies Center, St. 
Louis Community College, Fire Academy; Licensed, Registered Professional Nurse, 
St. Louis University Hospital; Firefighter/ Paramedic, University City Fire 
Department

CATEGORY:  HEALTH SCIENTIST
*	Dr. Kenneth Miller (CA) – Medical Director of the Orange County Fire Authority; 
Assistant Medical Director of the Orange County Healthcare Agency/Emergency 
Medical Services; Co-Director of the University of California-Irvine School of 
Medicine EMS & Disaster Medical Sciences Fellowship. 

CATEGORY:  IN-PATIENT MEDICAL PROVIDER
*	Dr. David Markenson (NY) - Director for the Center for Disaster Medicine at New 
York Medical College and Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine & Associate 
Professor of Pediatrics at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital  

CATEGORY:  STANDARDS SETTING
*	Robert Connors (MA) – Director of Preparedness for Raytheon Company. 
*	James Paturas (CT) – Deputy Director of the Yale New Haven Center for 
Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response. 


CATEGORY:  INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
*	Ann Beauchesne (DC) – Vice President of National Security & Emergency 
Preparedness Department U.S. Chamber of Commerce 

CATEGORY:  CYBER SECURITY
*	J. Michael Phillips (FL) - Special Agent Supervisor, Florida Division of Law 
Enforcement, Florida Computer Crime Center

CATEGORY:  COMMUNICATIONS
*	David Barron (DC) – Government Relations Advisor, Adams and Reese & Assistant 
Vice President (Retired) for Federal Relations/National Security at the BellSouth 
(ATT) Corporation

CATEGORY:  DISABILITIES
*	Richard Devylder (CA) – Special Advisor to the Secretary, California Emergency 
Management Agency

CATEGORY:  SPECIAL NEEDS
*	Irene Collins (AL) – Executive Director, Alabama Department of Senior Services

CATEGORY:  STATE GOVERNMENT:
*	Major General John William “Bill” Libby (ME) –Adjutant General & 
Commissioner of Defense for the State of Maine

CATEGORY:  LOCAL GOVERNMENT
*	Charles H. Ramsey (PA) - Police Commissioner, Philadelphia Police Department 

CATEGORY:  TRIBAL GOVERNMENT
*	Charles Kmet (AZ) – Emergency Management Administrator for the Tohono 
O’odham Department of Public Safety 

CATEGORY:  STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL
*	John Wesley Hines, Sr. (MS) –House District 50, Mississippi House of 
Representatives 

CATEGORY:  LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIAL
*	Jane Halliburton (IA) - Supervisor, Story County, Board of Supervisors

CATEGORY:  TRIBAL ELECTED OFFICIAL
*	John Stensgar (WA) - Business Council Member of the Colville Confederated 
Tribes

FEMA ADMINISTRATOR SELECTIONS
*	Joseph Becker (MD) – Senior Vice President of Disaster Services, American Red 
Cross
*	Russell J. Decker (DC) – Director of Allen County Emergency Management and 
Homeland Security & Past President of the International Association of Emergency 
Managers
*	Nancy J. Dragani (OH) – Executive Director of the Ohio Emergency Management 
Agency & Past President of the National Emergency Managers Association
*	Lee Feldman (FL) - City Manager, City of Palm Bay
*	Larry A. Larson (WI) - Executive Director of the Association of State Floodplain 
Managers, Inc.
*	Suzanne Mencer (CO) – Consultant for Colorado Emergency Preparedness 
Partnership (CEPP)
*	Diana Rothe-Smith (VA) - Executive Director of the National Voluntary 
Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD)
*	Teresa Scott (FL) - Public Works Director, City of Gainesville Public Works 
Department
*	Mark Shriver (MD) – Vice President, Save the Children

HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE (EX OFFICIO):
*	Ellen Gordon (IA) - Associate Director of Executive Education and Faculty, Naval 
Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security 

OFFICER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (EX OFFICIO):
*	Peter Verga (DC) – Principal Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, 
U.S. Department of Defense
*	Gerald Parker (DC) - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services