James W. Porter II, Chairman
Birmingham, Alabama
Mr. Porter is a member of the National Rifle Association Board of Directors.
He served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alabama; appointed Trustee to Alabama Trust Fund Board; founding Trustee, NRA Foundation; former Chairman and present member, NRA Finance Committee; longtime Chairman, NRA Legal Affairs Committee; longtime Chairman, NRA Industry Relations Task Force; Chairman, American Firearms and Shooting Foundation; legal advisor/counsel to NRA in federal court litigation; Vice President, Alabama Rifle & Pistol Association; member, International Municipal Lawyers Association; member, Defense Research Institute; member, Alabama Bar Association (Former Chairman, UPL Committee); former Law Clerk for the Honorable Virgil Pittman, US District Court Judge. Mr. Porter received his law degree from Cumberland School of Law.
Carol Frampton, Vice Chairman
DeWitt, Michigan
Mrs. Frampton is a member of the National Rifle Association Board of Directors.
Carol Frampton, Trustee
DeWitt, Michigan
Mrs. Frampton is a member of the National Rifle Association Board of Directors.
Graham Hill, Trustee
Mr. Graham Hill is a Benefactor member nominated by Nominating Committee and petition. Chairman NRA Legislative Policy Committee and Federal Affairs Subcommittee.
Born and raised in Texas hunting and shooting, active Texas hunter, NFA owner, AR-15 enthusiast, disabled 3-Gun and shotgun competitor, concealed carry permitted, attorney.
Endorsed by FCSA and FCI. Board of Directors of American Suppressor Association, President Fifty Caliber Institute, co-founder, past President and Board of Directors Washington Safari Club.
Twenty-five years legal experience in federal regulations and Congressional legislation, helped improve interstate firearm transportation laws and federal land access.
NRA Disabled Shooting Sports Committee member. President George W. Bush appointee to National Council on Disability.
Assisting NRA with developing instructor curriculum for disabled shooters, wheelchair concealed carry program, and other disability program initiatives.
Co-host NRA's National Disability Awareness Tournament. Former Vice Chairman, NRA President's Special Advisory Committee on Disabled Shooting; Life Member NYSRPA, TSRA, SCI, FCSA, DSSA Honorary Life member.
David Keene, Trustee
David A. Keene is Editor-at-Large and former Opinion Editor at The Washington Times, the nation’s largest conservative newspaper.
As President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) for the two traditional one-year terms, Keene led the “All-In” Campaign to elect Second Amendment supporters to federal and state office in 2012 and worked tirelessly to keep the U.S. from adopting Obama gun control legislation in 2013. NRA membership grew from four to five plus million members. He is a member of the NRA Executive Council. Keene was a Special Arms Representative to the United Nations in the President George W. Bush Administration.
From 1982 to 2011, Keene served as the elected Chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative advocacy group. ACU organizes the annual Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC, which Keene grew from 200 to 11,000 conservative activists in his volunteer capacity. CPAC meets in Washington, DC, each winter to hear and to network with conservative leaders from around the country and the world.
Keene serves on the boards of The Center for the National Interest, The Montana Policy Institute, Republic Books and The Washington Policy Institute. He has served as delegate to Norway for the American Council of Young Political Leaders, on the board of The Constitution Project, the Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Public Policy School, the Eisenhower Memorial Committee, a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Policy, a First Amendment Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Freedom Forum, and others. He has lobbied at the state, federal and international levels, including for Algeria and Western Sahara, Hyundai, and major hospital and transportation centers.
He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin while serving as National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom. In Washington, DC, he became a Special Assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon Administration, then Executive Assistant to New York Senator Jim Buckley. He advised presidential campaigns including George H.W. Bush (as National Political Director), Bob Dole, Ronald Reagan (Regional Political Director), Mitt Romney and dozens of state and local campaigns.
For 14 years, Keene wrote a regular column for The Hill, which focused on Capitol Hill. He has written extensively on civil liberties, criminal justice and politics for the American Spectator, Boston Globe, Human Events, National Review, and others including to numerous books and hundreds of radio and television programs, for example as election consultant to CBS News. His Lifetime Achievement Awards include the CPAC, Council of Racial Equality, Second Amendment Foundation, and the Young America’s Foundation.
Keene is married to Donna Wiesner Keene, and they enjoy the company of five children, ten grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. They work in Washington, DC, and protect their sanity by fishing, hunting and enjoying the outdoors, most frequently in Montana.
The Honorable Curtis S. Jenkins, Trustee
Forsyth, Georgia
Mr. Jenkins was first elected to the NRA Board of Directors in 2008. He currently serves on Legislative Policy and Legal Affairs Committees.
Mr. Jenkins is a relentless Second Amendment defender and strict constitutionalist.
He authored nation's first law prohibiting frivolous lawsuits against firearm manufacturers, which was adopted by 33 states and Congress, signed by President Bush.
He was a member, Georgia House of Representatives 1989-2005 (100% NRA A+ rating), served as Chairman-Special Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Jenkins received the NRA legislative leadership award, is a Benefactor member, a hunter, shooter, collector.
As a Boy Scout leader-he has helped facilitate shooter training and led Whittington Center trips.
He is a NRA Certified Instructor-Rifle/Shotgun.
Served as member Board of Directors for the Georgia Wildlife Federation, he is a member-Legislative Sportsman's Caucus, President-Monroe County Sportsman's Federation (organized competitive shooting, NSSF "Hunting & Fishing Day" events),and Auxiliary Deputy Sheriff.
He is an Honorary Life member-Georgia Sheriffs Association.
Also a member-GSSA, TSRA, CRPA, NYRPA, FCSA, DU, NWTF, GWF. Referral Attorney-NRA and Police Benevolent Associations.
Mr. Jenkins also serves as a member-Individual Rights Section and Advisory Committee on Legislation-State Bar.
James W. Porter II, Trustee
Birmingham, Alabama
Mr. Porter is a member of the National Rifle Association Board of Directors.
He served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alabama; appointed Trustee to Alabama Trust Fund Board; founding Trustee, NRA Foundation; former Chairman and present member, NRA Finance Committee; longtime Chairman, NRA Legal Affairs Committee; longtime Chairman, NRA Industry Relations Task Force; Chairman, American Firearms and Shooting Foundation; legal advisor/counsel to NRA in federal court litigation; Vice President, Alabama Rifle & Pistol Association; member, International Municipal Lawyers Association; member, Defense Research Institute; member, Alabama Bar Association (Former Chairman, UPL Committee); former Law Clerk for the Honorable Virgil Pittman, US District Court Judge. Mr. Porter received his law degree from Cumberland School of Law.
William H. Satterfield, Trustee
Birmingham, Alabama
Mr. Satterfield is a current member of the National Rifle Association's Legal Affairs Committee.
He is Of Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group of Balch & Bingham LLP. A native of western Kentucky, he earned his bachelor of industrial engineering degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA degree from Indiana University.
Commissioned through ROTC, he served on active duty in the Signal Corps in Thailand and Viet Nam, and he is a Colonel (Retired) in the Army Reserve.
Following his active service, he earned his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University.
During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Satterfield served in Washington as Associate and Deputy Solicitor in the Department of Interior (1981-1984), and as General Counsel of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1984-1986).
Since 1986, he has been engaged in the private practice of environmental, natural resources, energy, and public utility law, and he deals with complex legislative and regulatory matters at both federal and state levels.
He is an NRA Endowment member and a Life Member of Safari Club International and the Reserve Officers Association.
He is former Counsel, Board member, and Executive Committee member of the National Waterways Conference.
He currently serves on the Board of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association and on the Foundation of Highlands United Methodist Church.
Mr. Satterfield is a long time member of the American and Alabama Bar Associations, and he has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America from 1989 to the present.
John Sigler, Trustee
John C. Sigler, Esq.
Dover, Delaware
First elected to the NRA Board of Directors in 1996, Mr. Sigler served two terms as NRA’s Second Vice President, two terms as NRA’s First Vice President, and two terms as NRA’s 59th President (2007-2009). Under Mr. Sigler’s leadership NRA added both the Military and Veterans Affairs Committee and the Disabled Shooting Committee to NRA’s family of standing committees specifically to serve the needs of our returning military veterans.
Earning his Bachelor’s, Masters and Juris Doctor degrees while employed fulltime as a police officer, Mr. Sigler had a dual law practice for his first four years as a member of the Delaware Bar – first as special counsel to the Chief of Police and then as a parttime private practice attorney focusing primarily on corporate law, employment law and personal injury law.
Upon his retirement from police work, Mr. Sigler continued his private practice full-time, expanding into civil rights, constitutional law and criminal defense for several years until leaving private practice to become in-house General Counsel for a multi-state firm providing mental health services pursuant to government contract, a position he held for over twenty-five (25) years. His practice as General Counsel focused primarily on corporate governance and compliance, employment law, and contact and regulatory compliance.
During this time, Mr. Sigler served as an Associate Bar Examiner for the Delaware Bar for two years and was an active member of the Terry-Carey Inn of the Delaware Inns of Court.
Throughout this time, Mr. Sigler’s pro bono work was exclusively in the area of Second Amendment litigation, legislative support - drafting and reviewing Second Amendment-related legislation, and serving as a pro bono Second Amendment lobbyist in the Delaware General Assembly. For many years he served as the primary Second Amendment litigation strategist for Delaware’s NRA state association, the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association.
He is a co-founder and past president for the Delaware Association of Second Amendment Lawyers and the Delaware Foundation for Legislative Action. He is also a co-Founder of the NRA Foundation’s National Firearms Law Seminar and the founder of the Delaware Firearms’ Law Seminar.
Upon his retirement from corporate practice, Mr. Sigler returned to private practice in “Of Counsel” status to a Delaware firm conducting complex Equity-based litigation exclusively in Delaware’s renowned Court of Chancery.
Politically active, Mr. Sigler was both the Chairman of the Delaware Republican Party and a member of the Republican National Committee where he chaired the RNC’s Conservative Steering Committee and was a member of the RNC’s Conservative Caucus. As a member of the RNC’s 2012 Platform Committee, Mr. Sigler played a significant leadership role in drafting the strongest pro-Second Amendment Plank ever to be included in a major party’s national platform.
Mr. Sigler earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Wilmington College, his Masters Degree from Central Michigan University and his Juris Doctor Degree (Cum Laude) from the Delaware Law School of Widener University where he was also the Research Editor of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (Del. J. Corp. L.).
Admitted to practice in Delaware, Maryland and before the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Sigler is now fully retired but remains an Emeritus Member of the Delaware Bar.
Yuri R. Linetsky, Trustee
Yuri Linetsky is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he directs the Civil Law Clinic and teaches in the trial advocacy program. He served as Director of Clinical Programs from 2008-2025. Professor Linetsky’s recent scholarship has focused on police legal training and prosecutorial misconduct.
Prior to joining the Alabama Law faculty, Professor Linetsky served on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Law where he co-directed the Civil Litigation Clinic and taught Legal Analysis and Writing, Criminal Procedure, and directed the mock trial and litigation skills programs.
Before entering academia, Professor Linetsky practiced law at the Cleveland-based firm of Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP. At the firm his practice focused on commercial litigation, where he was involved in representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 250 companies.
Professor Linetsky holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Professor Linetsky has been a law enforcement officer for over 30 years, currently serving as a part-time Detective Sergeant for a police department in Northwest Ohio. Professor Linetsky is also an instructor in the Alabama Peace Officer Standards and Training Academy-Tuscaloosa, where he teaches laws of arrest, use of force, search & seizure, criminal procedure, civil & criminal liability, and effective writing.
He is a Life Member of the NRA and serves on the Board of Directors of Tuscaloosa Shooting Sports, Inc.
Jonathan S. Goldstein, Trustee
Jonathan Goldstein brings nearly 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and business owner to his law practice. Mr. Goldstein's practice focuses on firearms law and election law as well as entrepreneurial business advising.
Mr. Goldstein is an NRA certified pistol instructor and is a volunteer attorney for several firearms organizations including the National Rifle Association. He actively lectures on firearms law and firearms safety across Pennsylvania and is a frequent presenter for continuing legal education providers such as CAPE and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. In May 2011, Mr. Goldstein was awarded the Defender of Justice Award by the National Rifle Association's Institute of Legislative Action for his "tireless service to the Constitution and with particular emphasis on the protection and furtherance of the Second Amendment."
A brief prepared by Mr. Goldstein was cited favorably by Justice Alito in his Bruen concurrence.
As of September, 2018, Mr. Goldstein sat for several years as a non-director member of the National Rifle Association board’s Legal Affairs Committee and was also a member of the NRA’s 2016 Nominating Committee. He was elected to the NRA’s board and to the board’s Audit Committee in April, 2025.
Mr. Goldstein received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania for law school, earning his J.D. in 2005. Mr. Goldstein is admitted to practice law in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well as Washington, D.C., several Circuit courts and the United States Supreme Court where his firm argued a case in the 2023-2024 term.
In addition to practicing law, Mr. Goldstein is an active private equity investor purchasing and turning around small American manufacturing companies. Mr. Goldstein is also a licensed commercial pilot.
George Mocsary, Trustee
George Mocsary is an expert in the law of firearms.
He is Professor of Law, Founder & Director of Firearms Research Center, and Director of the Business Planning Practicum and at the University of Wyoming College of Law.
Professor Mocsary teaches and writes about Contracts, Business Organizations, Securities Regulation, the Second Amendment, and Firearms Law, including the intersection of Firearms Law and private law. He is a co-author of Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy (3rd ed. 2021), the first casebook on this topic.
Prior to his appointment at Wyoming, he served as an Associate Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He practiced corporate and bankruptcy law at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York, and clerked for the Honorable Harris L. Hartz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Professor Mocsary holds a J.D. from Fordham Law School and an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business. At Fordham, he graduated first in his class, and served as Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He has published in the George Washington Law Review, George Mason Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, and other journals. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, several U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Illinois, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and other courts.
Stefan Tahmassebi, Secretary
Alexandria, Virginia
Mr. Tahmassebi is the Deputy General Counsel for the National Rifle Association.
A member of the Virginia Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, Maryland Bar Association and various federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court, he received his J.D. in 1987 from Georgetown University Law Center.
Sonya Rowling, Treasurer
Ms. Rowling is the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of the National Rifle Association. She is also the Treasurer of the NRA Foundation, Special Contribution Fund, and the Freedom Action Foundation.
Ms. Rowling is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of Virginia, a member of the American Society of CPAs and the Virginia Society of CPAs. She received her Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting from James Madison University in 1992.
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