CNA Trustees Elect Laurie Robinson, Sarah Sewall, And Adam Robinson, Jr. To Board

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Sep 20, 2012, 03:24 ET

The Honorable Laurie O. Robinson, Dr. Sarah B. Sewall, and Vice Admiral Adam M. Robinson, Jr., USN (Ret.) join CNA's Board of Trustees

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CNA today announced that the Honorable Laurie O. Robinson, Dr. Sarah B. Sewall, and Vice Admiral Adam M. Robinson, Jr., USN (Ret.) have joined CNA's Board of Trustees, effective September 20, 2012.

Laurie Robinson is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law & Society at George Mason University. She has twice served as Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Programs (OJP) – the research, statistics, and criminal justice assistance arm of the Department. Her decade heading OJP is the longest in the agency's history. She is rejoining the CNA board, where she served from 2007 to 2009. Between her stints at the Justice Department, Robinson launched and directed the University of Pennsylvania's Master of Science Program in Criminology and served as a distinguished senior scholar in the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology. Prior to joining the federal government, she served for 14 years as director of the American Bar Association's Section of Criminal Justice. Robinson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.

Sarah Sewall, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, is founder and faculty director of the Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Project and serves on the Secretary of Defense's Defense Policy Board. Throughout 2012, she is serving as visiting Minerva Chair at the U.S. Naval War College. In 2010, she led a seminal study for the U.S. military on efforts to reduce civilian casualties, and, in 2008, directed the National Security Agency Review process for the Obama transition. During the Clinton Administration, Sewall served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance, and from 1983-1996, was senior foreign policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell. Sewall received an AB from Harvard College and a PhD from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Adam Robinson served as the 36th Navy Surgeon General and chief of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery from September 2007 to November 2011, when he retired from active duty after 34 years of service. Currently, he is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of VRC, a financial management, engineering, and healthcare systems company based in Fairfax, VA. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, an organization dedicated to the study of brain and neurological disorders to include groundbreaking work in the fields of nanotechnology, traumatic brain injury and stem cell research and treatment. Robinson is also a member of the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Advisory Board. He holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.

"CNA's new board members bring a wealth of experience and insight to CNA's Board and leadership team," said Amb. Rozanne Ridgway, chair, CNA Board of Trustees. "Their unique areas of expertise address CNA's broadened scope of activities that include areas that are of critical interest to our clients and the country."

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