Michael Rosenzweig, the President and CEO of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was formerly Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and General Counsel of Johns Manville, a Denver-based Fortune 500 company, which he joined in November 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Rosenzweig was in private practice as a corporate and securities lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was a senior partner in the Atlanta office of McKenna Long & Aldridge. He also served from March through November 2008 as Interim President of Hands On Atlanta, a nonprofit organization that builds community and meets critical needs through volunteer service and civic engagement.

Mr. Rosenzweig is very active in community affairs, having founded The Weber School in Atlanta, one of the nation's first transdenominational Jewish day high schools. He is on the board of the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy and has served on the boards of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Atlanta) and many other organizations. He was President of the American Pardes Foundation, the American arm of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.

Mr. Rosenzweig graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan (A.B., 1973) and with Highest Distinction in Scholarship from Columbia Law School (J.D., 1976). He was a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School from 1979 through 1987. He is widely published, with articles in the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review and The Yale Law Journal.

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