Mark C. Franco, ICE-CCP, assists associations, nonprofit organizations and small businesses on corporate legal matters including formation, tax, contracts, compliance, employment, fundraising, intellectual property, privacy, data security and governance. He also provides counsel to professional credentialing programs on matters such as cheating, discipline, accommodations, copyright registration, eligibility, score validation and accreditation, and is a contributing author to “Certification: The I.C.E. Handbook.”

Franco has over 17 years of experience working with nonprofit and credentialing organizations. He received his Bachelor of Science in business administration from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and his Juris Doctorate from the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School.

Julia Judish, Esq. serves as special counsel with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP’s employment and nonprofit organizations practices. With over two decades of experience serving as a trusted advisor on all facets of the employment relationship and on nonprofit governance, Judish regularly advises certification organizations on legal compliance, credentialing, governance, ethics and disciplinary codes, ADA accessibility, fiduciary duties and related areas. 

Judish is a co-author, with Jerry Jacobs, of the due process and ADA chapters of the “Certification and Accreditation Law Handbook” (3rd ed.), and is also a co-author with Jerry Jacobs and Dawn Crowell Murphy of the certification law chapter of the “ICE Handbook” (3rd ed.).

Judish is a legal advisor to the Professional Certification Coalition, a national coalition of certification organizations and professional societies, and is outside counsel to many certification organizations. She also serves on ASAE's Legal Advisory Council. Judish graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and has received multiple honors for excellence in legal services.

Dr. Delmar I. Lee is a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE®), and veteran of 22 years of service in the United States Air Force, where he served as a superintendent of training, avionics section chief and master instructor. He holds a PhD in postsecondary and adult education from Capella University with master’s and bachelor’s degrees in workforce education and development from Southern Illinois University.

Dr. Lee owned a small consulting agency, SINA Management Services, LLC, where he was a professional success builder providing consultation and training in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), leadership, human resources development, conflict resolution and education success. He is certified to instruct 32 competencies of the Certified Diversity Executive (CDE®) and Certified Diversity Professional (CDP®) programs and has provided training and instruction DEI courses and sessions for 10 years. He has designed and facilitated leadership and management consultation and training courses for more than 15 years in private and public venues and facilitated postsecondary education for more than 25 years.

Dr. Lee is the past board president for the Society for Diversity, parent company of the Institute for Diversity Certification. He is the past lead faculty area chair for the University of Phoenix, where he was responsible for three departments. He also served as senior manager for Velox Global Services, where he was responsible for coordinating strategic movement of personnel for businesses relocating and/or temporarily working on five continents. Dr. Lee has and continues to provide council to veterans and their dependents on transitioning from the military to gain employment in the public and private sectors. His passion for community includes mentoring youth ages 8-20, educational coaching for success in postsecondary education and being a proud member of The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.