First Amendment Coalition Board of Directors – 2017
- President: Carol Melamed, Vice-President Government Affairs, Washington Post (retired), Palo Alto, CA
- President-Elect and Vice President: Duffy Carolan, Attorney, Jassy, Vick, Carolan, SF, CA
- Second Vice President: Jay Harris, media consultant, former Publisher Mother Jones and The American Prospect, SF, CA
- Secretary: Dick Rogers, Reader Representative, San Francisco Chronicle (retired), San Leandro, CA
- Treasurer: Mel Opotowsky, newspaper consultant and former managing editor, Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA
Board of Directors
- Tim Alger, Attorney, Alger Law APC, Newport Beach, CA
- Kevin Bankston, Director, New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, Washington, DC
- Bruce B. Brugmann, Editor and Publisher, San Francisco Bay Guardian (retired), SF, CA
- Thomas Burke, Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine, SF, CA
- Nate Cardozo, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation, SF, CA
- James Chadwick, Attorney, Sheppard Mullin, Palo Alto, CA
- Guylyn Cummins, Attorney, Sheppard Mullin, San Diego, CA
- Hal Fuson, Attorney, Executive Vice President, The Copley Press, Inc. (retired), San Diego, CA
- Dan Gillmor, Knight Center, Cronkite School of Journalism, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
- Richard Gingras, Vice President of News, Google, Mountain View, CA
- Paul Gullixson, Editorial Director, Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA
- Jean-Paul Jassy, Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP, LA, CA
- Quentin Kopp, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge (retired), SF, CA
- Scott Lindlaw, Principal, Sard Verbinnen & Co., SF, CA
- Jim Newton,UCLA, Luskin School of Public Affairs, LA, CA
- Karl Olson, Attorney, Cannata, O’Toole, Fickes & Almazan, SF, CA
- John Raess, Former Associated Press Bureau Chief, SF, CA
- Rowland Rebele, newspaper consultant, Aptos, CA
- Martin G. Reynolds, Co-Executive Director, The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Oakland, CA
- Peter Scheer, Attorney and journalist who served as FAC’s Executive Director, 2004-2016, San Rafael, CA
- Arnold York, Publisher, Malibu Times, Malibu, CA