AVBA 2009-11 Leadership

Officers, Committees, & Regional Contacts

Officers

President: Kenneth U. Jordan, 1974 Law

Ken served as Chief Operating officer with the City of Atlanta Municipal Government. He was employed as Managing Director of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and ran the day-to-day operations of one of the world’s premiere accident investigation agencies, covering major accidents in all transportation modes: aviation, railroad, highway, marine, and pipeline. Ken recently retired as a Brigadier General in the Tennessee Air National Guard. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force (1966) through the University of Tennessee Knoxville ROTC program. His military career included a tour of duty in Thailand during the Vietnam War.

His civilian career positions include Corporate Personnel Specialist for General Foods Corporation; Associate Director of Fair Employment Practices; Assistant Dean of Administration, Vanderbilt Law School; Founder and Director of Vanderbilt University’s Opportunity Development center; three posts at Meharry Medical College (including Vice President for Administration and General Counsel); three positions in the US Department of Justice (including Chief of Staff of the Justice Management Division); Executive Assistant to the Governor of Tennessee; Assistant Adjutant General for Air; the Military department of Tennessee for 6 ½ years.

Ken received his B.A. in Public Administration from the University of Tennessee Knoxville (1966) and his Law degree from Vanderbilt (1974), and he has been licensed to practice law in Tennessee since 1975. He has served on the Board of Directors of numerous organizations including Family and Children’s Services, the Nashville Urban League, the University Club of Nashville, United Way of Middle Tennessee, and the Tennessee State Museum Foundation. Ken was Vice President of the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators at Vanderbilt, President of Vanderbilt University Credit Union, President of the Association of Vanderbilt Black Alumni, and President of the Napier-Looby Bar Association. He is a graduate of Leadership Nashville, a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (East Coast Chapter), and a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the United States.

Vice-President: Jennifer Horne, 2005 Pbdy, 2006 MEd

Jennifer lives in Nashville and received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt in Human and Organizational Development. Jennifer also completed her graduate coursework at Vanderbilt in the Organizational Leadership program (Peabody), graduating summa cum laude.

Currently Jennifer works for Actus Lend Lease as a Sustainability Manager, where she manages the development and implementation of local sustainability plans. Jennifer is also the Project Manager for the US Investment Management Diversity Council for Acuts, where she is responsible for planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful implementation of diversity programs. Previously Jennifer worked for Alpha Community Services in Ohio, a non-profit organization focused on improving underserved communities, as a program manager. She has served as a board member of Alpha Community Services and the Actus Community Fund and is a member of the US Green Building Council and a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Secretary: Jacqueline T. Lopardo, Esq., 1996 Pbdy

Jacqueline received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt in Human and Organizational Development and her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

Jacqueline, an entrepreneur, established Lopardo Law Firm in May, 2005. Under the auspices of her own firm, Jacqueline serves as Counselor/Legal Consultant to clients such as Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP and Universal Music Group, where she negotiates contracts for clients in the entertainment industry (music, film, TV, theatre, literary). Jacqueline also shops and brokers deals, advises on the PR and Marketing aspects of her clients’ projects, and manages project launches – her biggest launch to date being an album launch of a platinum artist whose first week sales exceeded 70,000 units.

Jacqueline balances both the transactional and litigation realms of the law. As a litigator, Jacqueline tackles high-profile entertainment contract, intellectual property and employment law cases, and in her first case ever, successfully vacated a default judgment for upwards of $1M in a copyright infringement/ breach of contract case before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Jacqueline also serves as a mediator and exhausts every option available to resolve her clients’ issues before ever reaching the steps of the courthouse. Jacqueline prides herself on giving back to her community and does so by giving an insane amount of legal hours pro bono. Since 2007,

Jacqueline has had the opportunity to delve further into the entertainment world through Public Relations; she currently serves as the personal publicist for Psychologist/Educator/Activist/Lecturer /Author Dr. Raymond A. Winbush and up and coming Author/Inventor Kevin D. Young. Jacqueline remains true to her activist roots by mentoring young attorneys, working on the grass-roots level of national and local political campaigns, getting in the street and protesting injustices against American Africans as they come, and by creating “Warrior Circles” which educate and train American African boys and girls in West African culture, rituals and traditions; these circles further serve as a support for parents and the community-at-large. Jacqueline is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. , Rose of Sharon, Chapter #1, Order of the Eastern Star, the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, the New York County Lawyers’ Association and the American Bar Association.