2009 Speaker

Amy Comstock Rick, Esq.
Chief Executive Officer, Parkinson's Action Network


Ms. Rick is the Chief Executive Officer of the Parkinson's Action Network (PAN). Before joining PAN in 2003, she served as the sixth Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, having accepted the nomination to the Senate-confirmed position in 1999. Prior to her appointment to the Office of Government Ethics, Ms. Rick was Associate Counsel to the President in the White House Counsel's Office. Ms. Rick began her federal service as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Education in 1988; she ended her tenure there in 1998 as Assistant General Counsel for Ethics. Ms. Rick began her professional career at the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan.

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