Campaign Finance Board Chair Rose Gill Hearn today announced that Board member Richard J. Davis has been reappointed to the Board by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. He will serve a five-year term ending in 2019.
“Richard is an exemplary board member and we are thrilled that he has been reappointed to a second term,” said Board Chair Rose Gill Hearn. “New York City voters are fortunate that the CFB will be able to rely on his insight and expertise for another five years.”
Mr. Davis founded his own law firm in 2012 after serving as a partner for 30 years in the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He has previously served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Enforcement and Operations (1977–1981), and prior to that served as an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor and an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Among other activities he has served as Chairman of the Board of Citizens Union (2004–2008), Chair Emeritus of the Board of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance (1995–present), Chairman of the Mayor’s Commission to Combat Police Corruption (1996–2002), a member of the Task Force on Police-Community Relations (1997–1998), and has served on the Board of the Legal Aid Society since 2000, where he is currently Chairman. Mr. Davis graduated from the University of Rochester and the Columbia University School of Law.
As mandated by the City Charter and the New York City Campaign Finance Act, the CFB is composed of five board members: two are appointed by the mayor, two by the speaker of the City Council, and the chair, by the mayor after consultation with the speaker. The Board is strictly nonpartisan, and the mayor’s and the speaker’s two appointees must not be affiliated with the same political party. Board members serve staggered, five year terms.