ENGLEWOOD, FL (August 18th, 2011) – The Denise Amber Lee Foundation today announced that USN Capt. Mark Adamshick has joined the Board of Directors for the Denise Amber Lee Foundation.  Capt. Adamshick was recently in Orlando for the state conference of the Florida League of Cities where he presented a keynote speech on the importance of maintaining the public trust and the importance of moral decision making and character development on the part of our elected, appointed, and career civil servants.  The session explored why seemingly good people sometimes do bad things and suggested a framework for improving civic virtue.

Capt. Mark Adamshick, USN retired, Ph.D. is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy class of 1981 and has been a commissioned officer in the United States Navy for over 29 years.  Captain Adamshick is a naval flight officer and test pilot school graduate and has accumulated over 3000 flight hours in over 25 different aircraft.  A “TOPGUN” graduate, he has over 1000 carrier arrested landings in fighter aircraft and has flown over 100 combat missions over Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia.  He has commanded an F-14D “Tomcat” squadron (VF-213) and an F-18E/F “Super Hornet” squadron (VFA-122) and was the operations officer of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-70.

He has served in a variety of high level staff positions including the deputy flag officer assignment officer to the Chief of Naval Personnel and the head aviation warfare policy officer to the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon.  Captain Adamshick has a Masters degree in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and earned his Ph.D. in policy studies, specializing in management, finance and leadership, from the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy.

Mark currently is the Chair for the Study of Officership at the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic, United States Military Academy, West Point.

“Capt. Adamshick will be an invaluable guiding factor in the growth and outreach of our Foundation,” said founder Nathan Lee.  “In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be sharing several other announcements about the Foundation, including the appointment of the Board of Directors.”

About the Denise Amber Lee Foundation

The mission of the Denise Amber Lee Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit, is to promote and support public safety through uniform training, standardized protocols, defined measurable outcomes and technological advances in the 9-1-1 system.  Established in June 2008, the foundation seeks to use the emotional power of this senseless tragedy to promote and encourage the use of technology, training, and procedures to reduce the occurrences of human error.  The foundation is determined to channel and focus the public outrage of these tragic events to drive rapid change to public policy and procedures.  For more information, please visit www.deniseamberlee.org.