NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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DONALD C. HUBIN, PhD | Ohio
Board Chair

  • Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, and Founding Director Emeritus of the Center for Ethics and Human Values, Ohio State University

  • BA, University of California, Davis

  • MA & PhD, University of Arizona

  • Author of numerous articles on parental rights

  • Board member of the International Council on Shared Parenting

  • Recipient of the Family Reunion President's Award

  • One of the national leaders in the shared parenting movement

  • Co-Author of the 2019 and 2025 NPO Shared Parenting Report Cards and the 2022 NPO Child Support and Shared Parenting Report Card

  • Shared parenting father of three, step-father of two, and grandfather of six children

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CAM HUFFMAN | West Virginia

  • President & CEO The Burdette Group

  • West Virginia Wesleyan College

  • Serves on West Virginia’s Board of Directors of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and is a West Virginia Supreme Court certified family law mediator.

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MATT HALE, MBA | Kentucky
Board Vice Chair

  • Architectural Sales, Spohn Associates

  • Bradley University, University of Louisville

  • One of the national leaders of the shared parenting movement and creator of Shared Parenting Day

  • Wrote initial draft of nation's first permanent shared parenting presumption law (Kentucky 2018 HB 528) and led the effort for its passage

  • Wrote initial draft of the nation's second temporary shared parenting presumption law (Kentucky 2017 HB 492) and led the effort for its passage

  • Shared parenting father of two biological daughters, one adopted daughter and two step-sons

ELIZABETH MCNEESE | Ohio

  • Family law reform & legislative advocate 

  • NPO Ohio Chair 

  • Filmmaker and Owner of Echo Productions, LLC

  • Executive Producer, "We The Parents" film (2024)

  • Shared parenting mother of three biological children, step-mother to three

  • Member of the Ohio Child Support Advisory Council (2022 & 2026) and the Parenting Time Subcommittee (2024)

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LINDA REUTZEL | Missouri
Board Treasurer

  • Owner/CFO FGR Mechanical, Inc.

  • Southeast Missouri State University

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GEORGE PISKOR, MASc, SM, LLM | Canada

  • Family law reform advocate and independent researcher

  • Co-author of the 2019 and 2025 Shared Parenting Report Cards by the US National Parents Organization (NPO). Co-author of the 2022 NPO Child Support and Shared Parenting Report Card

  • Served as Co-President of the Canadian Equal Parenting Council (CEPC), which initiated the first Canadian Shared Parenting Bill; created the UK FRM coalition of 26 organizations to lobby for shared parenting reform

  • LLM (Master of Laws), Family Law, York University; SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Masters in Computers and Control, University of Toronto

MANAGEMENT

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LIANNA VERRETTE | MASSACHUSETTS
Director of Operations

  • Manages National Parents Organization's files, database, and general office

 

STAFF

BRIAN ULRICH
Senior Child Support Researcher

 

  • Prepared the National Parents Organization Issues in Child Support Report

  • Co-Authored the National Parents Organization 2022 Child Support and Shared Parenting Report Card

  •  Assisted in drafting NPO's Submission to Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing On Strengthening the Child Support Enforcement Program: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities for Modernization held on January 21, 2026

  • Educator about child support reform with over 30 Representatives’ and Senators’ staff, and numerous key committee staff at the U.S. Capitol. Has provided testimony about child support reform to various governmental bodies in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and Minnesota; and advocated for Child Support Reform in those states

  • Advocate for shared parenting in the States of Minnesota and California

  • Helped establish the California Fatherhood Council

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

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NED HOLSTEIN, MD, MS
Founder and Chairman Emeritus
Executive Director, 1998-2018 (Intermittently)

  • Nationally recognized expert on the effects of the environment on human health

  • Founded Fathers and Families, now National Parents Organization, in 1998 to reform the family courts

  • Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine