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February 2008
Prominent Attorney Joins Board of Directors for American Leprosy Missions
(Greenville, SC—February 5, 2008) Mr. Ron Doucette has accepted an appointment to the Board of Directors for American Leprosy Missions (ALM). Doucette is a practicing attorney in the town of Leesburg in Loudon County, Virginia, specializing in corporate, information technology, banking, family businesses, estate-planning, conservation and land-use law. He is a member of the Virginia, Massachusetts, Indiana, and Federal District (Eastern Virginia) Bars.
Doucette comes to ALM’s board with a strong background in business leadership and development. He has served as an officer or director of companies including Fiduciary Counsel, Inc., Institutional Pension Consultants of New York and the Putnam Companies of Boston in the areas of financial investment, banking, family businesses and charitable foundations. He served as in-house counsel for the Home Savings Bank of Boston and is a former Board Member of the Land Trust of Virginia.
Doucette is the Co-Founder of the National Christian Choir and has served as a Warden of Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia and Senior Warden of Church of the Holy Spirit in Ashburn, Virginia. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Suffolk University Law School.
Now, as Doucette steps into a new role of service, he brings with him a passion for those often referred to as the poorest of the poor—people affected by leprosy. “What excites me about ALM is that it not only treats and cures people afflicted with Leprosy, but then helps them return into the local society that formerly treated them as diseased outcasts. Leprosy comes with a terrible denigrating stigma. ALM services the unwanted and transforms them into healthy acceptable human beings,” he says.
American Leprosy Missions is the oldest and largest organization in the United States dedicated to restoring hope and healing to people affected by leprosy and related conditions around the world. ALM is fighting to bring humanity, not rejection, back to those often cast aside by society. ALM uses systemic, holistic programs to combat and, whenever possible, reverse the physical, spiritual, socio-economic, and educational erosion that devastates the lives of those affected by this disease.
