Board of Directors
Douglas E. Noll, 2012 President
Phone: 800.785.4487
Email: doug@nollassociates.com
Douglas E. Noll is a nationally acclaimed speaker, and a full time mediator, specializing in difficult, complex, and intractable conflicts. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a Fellow of the American College (more…)
Reginald A. Holmes, Treasurer
Phone: 626.432.7222
Email: rholmes@theholmeslawfirm.com
Reginald A. Holmes, President of The Holmes Law Firm is one of America’s finest and most experienced Arbitrators, Mediators and Private Justices. He has been a member of the American Arbitration Association’s (more…)
Richard J. Collier, 2013 President-Elect
Phone: 415.433.1900
Email: rcollier@cwclaw.lcom
Richard Collier has a trial and ADR practice with Cooper, White & Cooper, LLP in San Francisco. First trained as a mediator in 1992, Mr. Collier has mediated several hundred disputes across a wide range of subject areas, (more…)
John Horn, Immediate Past President
Phone: 213.487.8660 x204
Email: j.horn@amccenter.com
John Horn is currently the Managing Director of the Arbitration Mediation and Conciliation Center (AMCC). AMCC is a full service dispute resolution firm serving the dispute resolution needs of both public and private (more…)
Suzanne V. Chamberlain
Phone: 949.476.8303
Email: candvlaw@msn.com
Suzanne V. Chamberlain is a founding principal of Chamberlain and Viau, a professional law corporation. Her practice includes litigation and transactional work in the areas of business, employment and real estate. (more…)
Paul Dubow
Phone: 415.495.6308
Email: pdubow2398@aol.com
Paul Dubow is a full time arbitrator and mediator. His office is in San Francisco and he specializes in commercial, insurance, securities, and employment matters. He spent 30 years as director of litigation at Dean Witter (more…)
Shar Etebar
Phone: 510.548.2377
Email: shar@seedscrc.org
Shar Etebar is the Executive Director of SEEDS Community Resolution Center in Berkeley, California. He has been associated with all three of SEEDS’ root programs in various capacities over the past 19 years. (more…)
Donald E. Fischer
Phone: 559.905.4315
Email: donald.fischer@fresno.edu
Donald E. Fischer, mediator and conflict specialist. Donald Fischer has more than thirty years of experience in small business, employment, insurance, construction and real property. He mediates in these arenas as well as (more…)
Frederick J. Glassman
Phone: 310.207.0777
Email: fglassman@mglawcorp.com
Frederick J. Glassman is a founding partner of Mayer & Glassman Law Corporation in Los Angeles; a veteran of 35 years of litigation, he now focuses his practice on resolution-oriented approaches to family (more…)
Mickey Katz
Phone: 310.277.2236
Email: mickey@michelle-katz.com
Michelle (“Mickey”) Katz is certified by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in family law. After years of advocacy work, she now devotes her practice exclusively to non-litigation (more…)
Janet K. Martinez
Phone: 650.723.4457
Email: janmartinez@law.stanford.edu
Janet Martinez is the Director of the Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program; and Co-Director of the Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative at the Stanford University Law School.
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Hon. Kevin Midlam (Ret.)
Phone: 760.804.1509
Email: hhkmret@att.net
Hon. Kevin Midlam (Ret.) was appointed to the San Diego Superior Court in 1988. Prior to his appointment, he had practiced law in San Diego, California, since his graduation from Willamette College (more…)
David B. Pauker
Phone: 415.334.1100
Email: dpauker@conflictalchemy.com
David B. Pauker is a mediator in private practice in Northern California. He has more than 25 years’ experience resolving crises and difficult problems as a mediator and negotiator. For many years, Mr. Pauker utilized (more…)
Phyllis G. Pollack
Phone: 213.630.8810
Email: phyllis@pgpmediation.com
Phyllis G. Pollack, Esq. the principal of PGP Mediation (www.pgpmediation.com), has been a mediator inLos Angeles,Californiasince 2000. She has conducted over 950 mediations. (more…)
Michael R. Powell
Phone: 213.362.1900
Email: powellm@adr.org
Michael Powell is Vice President of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He was appointed Vice President of AAA’s Los Angeles office in September 2000. He is primarily responsible for expanding the use of (more…)
Ronald Rosenfeld
Phone: 310.278.7560
Email: rar@beverlyhillslaw.com
Ron Rosenfeld is a partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Leeds, Wender and Rosenfeld LLP. His practice includes divorce mediation, collaborative divorce, divorce litigation, living-together agreements, (more…)
Ivan K. Stevenson
Phone: 310.540.2138
Email: stevenson@mediate.com
Ivan K. Stevenson has been a trial attorney for 35 years. He has served as an arbitrator for the past 29 years and a mediator for the past 12 years. His 35 years as a trial attorney has brought Mr. Stevenson a wealth of knowledge (more…)
Eric van Ginkel
Phone: 310.836.1919
Email: eric@ericvanginkel.com
Eric van Ginkel, LL.M. is an experienced arbitrator and mediator in California and internationally. He is Assistant Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and an Adjunct Professor of Law, at Pepperdine (more…)
Hon. Alexander H. Williams III (Ret.)
Phone: 310.201.0010
Email: judgewilliams@adrservices.org
Alexander H. Williams III is a mediator, arbitrator and discovery referee in private practice, working exclusively through ADR Services, Inc. in Los Angeles. He served as a Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1984 until 2008. (more…)
Maurice L. Zilber
Phone: 415.713.1914
Email: mlzee@earthlink.net
Maury Zilber is a full time neutral and has over 25 years of experience as an arbitrator and mediator. He has arbitrated over 150 domestic and international commercial and consumer disputes over (more…)
Past Presidents
Past presidents of CDRC include some of the most distinguished and well known ADR professionals in California: (more...)