ACLU-NCA Staff

Executive Director

Currently vacant but a new Executive Director has been selected by the ACLU-NCA Board of Directors. Stay turned for exciting news! 

Arthur B. Spitzer, Legal Director

Arthur Spitzer was born in Brooklyn, which explains a lot. He was raised in Queens and graduated from Bayside High School, Cornell University, and Yale Law School. After clerking for Judge Walter K. Stapleton (then D. Del., now 3rd Cir.), he practiced for several years at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) before assuming his current position on April Fool’s Day, 1980. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a Master at the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. His dog’s name is Justice. He is not related to former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer.

Beverly Miller, Development, Outreach and Public Education Director

D. M. Haines, Administrative Director

Fritz Mulhauser, Staff Attorney

Fritz Mulhauser has been a staff member of the American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital for almost two decades. As staff attorney, he litigates cases involving fundamental rights in various settings, with a concentration on cases challenging police misconduct.   He represented misdemeanor criminal defendants in D.C. Superior Court while he was in law school.  He has been adjunct professor at several law schools in the District.  He is on the board of the Council for Court Excellence and was on the board of D.C. Prisoners’ Legal Services Project before it merged with the Washington Lawyers Committee.  He has for many years been on the Steering Committee for the D.C. Bar Section on Courts, Lawyers & the Administration of Justice.

He earlier served for 11 years as a staff member for the U.S. Congress, first on the Education and Labor Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as Assistant Director in the U.S. General Accounting Office where he led research and investigations and testified on a wide range of legislative policy topics including the war on drugs, education, immigration and the civil service.  For his GAO service he received the Comptroller General’s Award. He directed research in education policy for a decade as a member of the staff at the National Institute of Education, formerly a part of the U.S. Department of Education.  He began his career as a high school teacher. 

His undergraduate degree is from Harvard (magna cum laude) and his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.  He also holds graduate degrees in history from Yale University and education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Donn Cohen, Staff Attorney