Debbi Gibbs, Chair
Debbi Gibbs has been actively involved with Compassion & Choices since   2000. Her grandmother spent the last few months of her life distributing copies of Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ book On Death and Dying and preparing for a good death from the effects of cancer. Her mother was active in reproductive rights. Debbi Gibbs is the Director of Just Managing, a music agency, and has worked as an executive director in the broadcasting and entertainment industry for many years. She holds an Architecture degree and lives in New York with her son.

Van Zandt Williams, Jr.,Vice-Chair
VanZandt Williams, Jr. is Vice President for Development Emeritus fromPrinceton University. Williams retired from this position after 22years of leading the University’s fund raising operations. He and hiswife Myra divide their time between Princeton, New Jersey and Naples,Florida. He serves on the Boards of the McCarter Theatre of Princeton, Compassion & Choices, the National Advisory Council for DeVry University and is a former Board member of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

E. Phillip Cannon, Treasurer
Philip manages a small investment firm in Houston Texas.  After a career in business, he was headmaster of St. John’s School and later President and CEO of the Houston Zoo.  He served as Chairman of the Board of Omega House, a hospice for terminal AIDS patients, and served on the board of trustees of several schools and Princeton University.  He earned his M. B. A. at the University of Texas.

Peter D. Ehrenhaft, MIA, LLB
Peter D. Ehrenhaft is Senior Counsel at the Washington office of HarkinsCunningham. He specializes in technology transfers, joint ventures andimport and export matters. Ehrenhaft has represented foreigngovernments to negotiate trade agreements, and has served as the DeputyAssistant Secretary and Special Counsel (Tariff Affairs) of the U.S.Department of the Treasury. Fluent in German, Ehrenhaft received hisLL.B. and M.I.A. from Columbia University Schools of Law andInternational Affairs in 1957, and his A.B. from Columbia University in1954, all with honors.

R. Q. Wolfson, J.D., Secretary
Paul is partner in the international law firm of Wilmer Hale. His practice focuses on Supreme Court and appellate litigation, and advising clients on federal law, especially constitutional law. Before joining Wilmer Hale he worked in the US Solicitor General’s Office for eight years. He also served as one of the leading lawyers involved in public international law and immigration law issues. Paul participated in the preparation of the United States’ case in the International Court of Justice in The Hague involving the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Germany v. United States).

Robert Brody, M.D.
Robert V. Brody, M.D. is a general internist with an interest in hospice and palliative care and medical ethics. For 17 years he was Chair of the Ethics Committee at San Francisco General Hospital, where he attends on the Medicine, Medicine Consultation, Pain, Palliative Care, and Ethics Services and is Chief of the Pain Consultation Clinic. He is also Medical Director of Health at Home for the San Francisco department of Public Health and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Family & Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. He joined the national board of Compassion in Dying in 1996 and the national board of End of Life Choices before the unification into Compassion & Choices, of which he was the first board chairman. He continues as an active member of the Compassion & Choices Advocacy and EOLC committees and the Compassion & Choices Northern California Chapter.

David Muller, M.D.
Dr. Muller is the Associate Professor and Chair of Medical Education and an Associate Professor of Medicine/General Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also Attending Physician at the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute. Dr. Muller is a graduate of New York University School of Medicine. He arrived at Mount Sinai as a resident in Internal Medicine and served as Chief Resident. He is now on the full-time faculty in the Division of General Medicine, and the majority of his clinical teaching responsibilities involve home visits with the Visiting Doctors Program.

Cheryl D. Perrin
Cheryl, a public policy consultant and retired executive officer of Fred Meyer Inc., joined the board in October 2008. She is actively involved in her community as well as the University of Oregon Foundation. Ms. Perrin has chaired the National Food Marketing Institute and served as director of both the Energy Trust of Oregon and the Urban League of Portland. She has won numerous community service honors, including Oregon Woman of the Year and the Oregon Basic Rights Award. She has four daughters and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Sue Dessayer Porter
Sue Porter has been a client case manager for Compassion & Choices of Oregon since 2001. Sue helps steward terminally ill patients through the process outlined under Oregon's unique Death With Dignity Act. She has a business background including an MBA from St. Mary’s College. She has focused professionally on corporate software sales and market research. Sue lives in Portland, Oregon and is pursuing her Master of Science in Bioethics.

Karen Pye, M.P.H
Karen is a public health consultant with over 20 years experience providing program planning, management, and evaluation in community-based health care and health education settings. Ms. Pye is active in her community, providing pro bono evaluation mentoring to a homeless shelter and serving on the board of a residential crisis center for women and their children that provides empowerment training and resources. She also served on the board of Compassion in Dying from 2000 to 2004, when CID transitioned to Compassion & Choices.  Ms. Pye and her family have long been active supporters of C&C. She holds a Masters in Public Health and lives in Georgia with her husband.

Robert Schwartz, J.D.
Rob Schwartz has been Professor of Law and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico for over thirty years.  During that period he has also taught law, medicine and bioethics in Australia, India, and several other law schools across the United States.  He was Chair of the Task Force that resulted in New Mexico becoming the first state to adopt the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act, and he is the coauthor of one of the nation's leading health law and bioethics texts.

Irene Wurtzel
Irene Wurtzel is a playwright, filmaker and community activist. Her award winning plays have appeared on and off-Broadway. Ms.Wurtzel chaired the Board of Directors of Enterprise Works/Vita(newly merged in Relief International) for six years until 2008. She is currently Board  chair for Theater J and sits on the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of Shenandoah University. Other boards include the Phoenix Project, a non-profit dedicated to the training of college students for the not -for -profit world, and the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund. She was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on the role of Women in American History.

Barbara Coombs Lee, PA, FNP, JD, President, ex officio
Barbara practiced as a nurse and physician assistant for 25 years before beginning a career in law and health policy. Since then she has devoted her professional life to individual choice and empowerment in health care. Barbara’s professional experience includes work as a private attorney, counsel to the Oregon State Senate, a managed care executive, and President of Compassion In Dying from 1996-2004. Barbara was Chief Petitioner for the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. She is a champion for enabling individuals with the freedom to consider a complete range of choices and be full participants in their health care decisions. As President of Compassion and Choices, Barbara oversees advocacy, development, legislative and client support.

Marcia A. Campbell, CPA, CFO/COO, ex officio
Marcia A. Campbell, CPA, is chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Compassion & Choices. She has worked since 1978 as an accountant to a wide range of clients, ranging from manufacturers to mortgage brokers. She has earned a reputation as a successful CFO, controller, and human resources director for closely held private companies and nonprofit organizations. The Kansas City, Missouri, native is mother of two adult sons and enjoys painting when she puts down her calculator.