# Tim McFeeley > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tim_McFeeley > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tim_McFeeley.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McFeeley > Source revision: 1247567553 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American lawyer and gay activist}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2010}} '''Tim McFeeley''' (born 1946) is an American lawyer and gay activist. Formerly the executive director of the [Center for Policy Alternatives](/source/Center_for_Policy_Alternatives) (CPA), a [progressive](/source/progressivism_in_the_United_States) political non profit, he is currently a Vice President of national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imsearch.com/about-us/our-people/show-details/10044|title = Staff Biography}} He joined Isaacson, Miller in 2008 where his practice mainly focuses on the legal, advocacy, and public policy sectors. McFeeley received his bachelor's degree from [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) and his J.D. from [Harvard Law School](/source/Harvard_Law_School).{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4DDC72021C134&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=A CONVERSATION WITH TIM MCFEELEY GAY RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER|date=January 26, 1994|work=Rocky Mountain News|accessdate=20 May 2012}} He practiced law{{cite book|last=Eaklor|first=Vicki|title=Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u9BV2JL2hd4C&pg=PA171|accessdate=2 September 2012|date=2006-04-11|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9781560235262|pages=171–}} in [Boston](/source/Boston) for 17 years, first as an associate at a mid-sized law firm and later as corporate counsel for National Medical Care, Inc., an organization that provided a variety of specialized health care services and products.{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/660014941.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+06%2C+1986&author=John+Robinson%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=REUSE+OF+DIALYSIS+DEVICES+UNDER+FIRE&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131220045/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/660014941.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+06,+1986&author=John+Robinson,+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=REUSE+OF+DIALYSIS+DEVICES+UNDER+FIRE&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|title=REUSE OF DIALYSIS DEVICES UNDER FIRE|last=Robinson|first=John|date=Mar 6, 1986|work=[Boston Globe](/source/Boston_Globe)|page=6|accessdate=2 September 2012}} In Boston, McFeeley was active in civic and political activities and served on the boards of directors of Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders and Boston Aging Concerns. McFeeley was a founder of both the [Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance](/source/Boston_Lesbian_and_Gay_Political_Alliance) and Bay State Stonewall Democrats.{{cite web|url=http://www.edgeboston.com/pride//news//72581/pride_goes_green|title=Pride goes green|last=Jacobs|first=Ethan|date=April 5, 2008|work=EDGE Boston|accessdate=17 September 2012}} From 1989 to 1995, McFeeley served as executive director of the [Human Rights Campaign](/source/Human_Rights_Campaign) Fund, a national gay activist organization.{{cite news |title=Gay Groups Regrouping For War on Military Ban |last=Schmalz |first=Jeffrey |date=February 7, 1993 |newspaper=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |accessdate=2010-04-16 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/07/us/gay-groups-regrouping-for-war-on-military-ban.html}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/06/us/1994-campaign-homosexuality-struggle-over-gay-rights-moves-statewide-level.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|title=THE 1994 CAMPAIGN: HOMOSEXUALITY; Struggle Over Gay Rights Moves to Statewide Level|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|date=6 November 1994|work=The New York Times|page=30|accessdate=20 May 2012}} In 1993 McFeeley directed HRCF's endeavors to lift the ban against gay and lesbian members of the Armed Services, an unsuccessful effort that led to the "[don't ask, don't tell](/source/don't_ask%2C_don't_tell)" policy. During that spring, McFeeley was part of the first delegation of gay and lesbian leaders to meet with the president, [Bill Clinton](/source/Bill_Clinton), in the [Oval Office](/source/Oval_Office).{{cite book|last=Weisberg|first=Stuart E.|title=Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtTgE0JtL7wC&pg=PA400|accessdate=2 September 2012|date=2009-09-30|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|isbn=9781558497214|pages=400–}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/16/us/clinton-to-meet-with-gay-groups.html|title=Clinton to Meet with Gay Groups|last=Witt|first=Karen de|date=1993-04-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-25|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Following his departure from HRCF in January 1995, McFeeley provided consulting services to a variety of for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including the [National Senior Citizens Law Center](/source/National_Senior_Citizens_Law_Center), [Common Cause](/source/Common_Cause), the National Association of Commissions for Women, and the National [Stonewall Democrats](/source/Stonewall_Democrats). Since January 2001, McFeeley has served as Political Director for the [National Gay and Lesbian Task Force](/source/National_Gay_and_Lesbian_Task_Force).{{cite book|title=The Advocate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33|accessdate=2 September 2012|date=2001-06-19|publisher=Here Publishing|pages=33–}} McFeeley authored ''The Price of Access'', a book that describes and analyzes the federal end-stage renal disease program.{{cite journal|last=Friedman|first=Eli A.|year=2002|title=Book Review The Price of Access By Tim McFeeley. 400 pp. Nashua, N.H., MDL Press, 2001. $27.95. 0-9716058-0-7|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=346|issue=25|pages=2016–2017|issn=0028-4793|doi=10.1056/NEJM200206203462521}}{{citation |last=McFeeley |first=Tim |year=2001 |title=The price of access : the story of life and death and money and the first national health care program and the three doctors who changed medicine in America forever |publisher=MDL Press |isbn=978-0-9716058-0-0 |oclc=52766123 }} McFeeley resides in Washington, D.C., and [Provincetown](/source/Provincetown), Massachusetts, with his spouse, Robert J. Mondzak. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20010428222930/http://www.imsearch.com/leadership.html Biography at Issacson, Miller] *{{C-SPAN|18212}} {{s-start}} {{s-npo|hrc}} {{s-bef|before=[Vic Basile](/source/Vic_Basile)}} {{s-ttl|title= Executive Director|years=June 1989 – January 1995}} {{s-aft|after=[Elizabeth Birch](/source/Elizabeth_Birch)}} {{s-end}} {{Presidents of the Human Rights Campaign}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:McFeeley, Tim}} Category:1946 births Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Harvard Law School alumni Category:American gay men Category:American LGBTQ rights activists Category:American LGBTQ lawyers Category:Living people Category:20th-century American LGBTQ people Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people Category:20th-century American lawyers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tim McFeeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McFeeley) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McFeeley?action=history)). 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