Norman Siegel

Norman Siegel served as treasurer of the Jackie Robinson Foundation from 1977-2008. He grew up in Brooklyn and was a Dodger fan in his youth. Since graduating from New Utrecht High School (Brooklyn), Brooklyn College and New York University Law School, Siegel has spent his lifetime as a civil liberties and civil rights advocate, with just a few years in private practice. After finishing law school in 1968, Siegel joined the Southern Justice & Voter Law Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Regional Office. In 1972, he became executive director of the Youth Citizenship Fund, Inc., a national, non-profit, youth-education organization that sought to empower the powerless in America. Siegel then joined the New York Civil Liberties Union as its Field Director in 1973 and spearheaded campaigns for the New York State Equal Rights Amendment. In 1978 Siegel became project director for MFY Legal Services, Inc., which provides assistance to poor people on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Chinatown, Little Italy, East Harlem and West Side and eventually became the executive director. Siegel lives in Manhattan with his wife and has one grandchild.