NJDC Lauds Appointment of NJDC Chair Marc R. Stanley to US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council

The National Jewish Democratic Council applauds President Barack Obama’s appointment of NJDC Chair Marc R. Stanley to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. The Council oversees national Holocaust awareness and remembrance efforts. It also serves as an advisory board for the Holocaust Memorial Museum itself in Washington, D.C.

“On behalf of the Board, staff, and members of the National Jewish Democratic Council, I am thrilled to extend our organization’s delight and feelings of pride and honor that President Barack Obama has appointed our Chair Marc R. Stanley to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council,” said David A. Harris, President and CEO of the NJDC.

“Marc’s appointment to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council reflects his decades-long record of service to the American Jewish community, as well as his personal commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and expanding education about that tragic period inhistory. We know that Marc will contribute mightily through his service on the Council, and we are positively ecstatic for Marc and wish him the best as he begins this endeavor.”

The Council was established by Congress in 1980 to succeed an earlier Presidential Commission on the Holocaust. The Council was responsible for carrying out the main recommendations of the early commission to:

Establish a living memorial to honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust;

Create a Committee on Conscience to collect information on and alert the nation to actual or potential outbreaks of genocide throughout the world; and

Mark a national Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust and to hold it annually.

In addition to serving as NJDC’s Chair, Marc R. Stanley is a founder and partner of Stanley Iola, LLP, a law firm that focuses on complex litigation nationally. Stanley is also a Vice-Chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and Treasurer/Co-Chair Elect of the Foundation for Jewish Culture.

He has served as President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, President of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, President of the Dallas Home for the Jewish Aged, and President of the Southwest Region of the American Jewish Congress. Stanley has previously been appointed Chairman of the Texas Public Finance Authority and as a Member of the Board of Visitors of the Air University of the United States Air Force. He received a B.B.A. from the George Washington University and a J.D. from the University of Texas. He resides in Dallas, TX with his wife, Wendy, and their three children.