Tanya N. Terrell is the Director of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, where she has overall responsibility for Section operations and activities. Prior to her promotion to Director, Tanya served for four years as Assistant Director of the Section. Before joining the ABA, she practiced complex employment litigation and represented clients in domestic, bankruptcy, and criminal matters. Tanya also served for several years as Legislative Counsel to a senate committee in the Maryland General Assembly and was a Grants Management Specialist at the NIH's National Cancer Institute. Tanya is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School and a member of the Maryland State Bar.

Patrice McFarlane is the Associate Director of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, where she works with the Section's substantive committees addressing a wide range of civil rights issues. Patrice also supervises Section staff in the Director’s absence and provides overall management and direction. She is a former staff counsel of the ABA Criminal Justice Section where she was a contributing author of the Criminal Justice magazine and worked with committees addressing issues related to the criminal justice system. Patrice is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars, and the Civil Justice Network. She has volunteered on immigration matters before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Patrice is a graduate of the Catholic University Columbus School of Law.

Jaime T. Campbell is the Section Administrator. Her primary duties include day-to-day office matters, meeting planning, budget and other financial processes, and membership development activity and coordination. Prior to joining the Section, Jaime served as Assistant to the Director of the Criminal Justice Section. She spent several years as office manager for a medical practice and is a licensed cosmetologist. Jaime is proud to be the wife of Michael Campbell and the mother of Jamek Turner.

Sarah Turberville is the Director of the Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project. Prior to (re)joining the ABA, Sarah worked as a staff attorney on the Project’s state death penalty assessments, researching and drafting the assessment reports released in 2007. At the close of the assessments project, she began work as a public defender in Maryland, handling numerous criminal cases at trial. Sarah has represented individuals wrongfully incarcerated during and after Hurricane Katrina and she has also served as a law clerk to the defense bar in the Hague, assisting in the representation of members of the Kosovo Liberation Army before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Sarah is a graduate of Tulane Law School.

Michael Pates serves as director of both the ABA Center for Human Rights and the ABA AIDS Coordination Project. After graduating from the University of South Carolina, he served as staff assistant to Justice Harry A. Blackmun until Blackmun’s retirement in 1994, then entered Penn State-Dickinson School of Law. He also was a law clerk in the Pennsylvania Department of Education Office of Legal Counsel and was awarded a summer fellowship at the National Whistleblower Center. Upon graduating law school in 1997, he served another stint at the U.S. Supreme Court, managing the “cert pool” for Chief Justice Rehnquist, then embarked on a career in public interest law, joining the IRR staff in October 2000. He is married and the father of three.