Many of NFTY's leaders - serving as members of the NFTY North American Board - have gone on to become prominent leaders in the Reform Movement. Many now serve as Rabbis, Cantors, Educators, Youth Workers, Temple Staff Members and lay leaders in Union for Reform Judaism affiliated Congregations.

1941-1945       Rabbi Selwyn Ruslander, Director

                      Helen Strauss & Helen Louise Goldstrom Wax, WWII Interim Directors

1945-1967       Rabbi Samuel Cook, Director

1948-1949       Robert Herzog, Assistant Director

1951-1959       Eleanor R. Schwartz, Associate Director

1957-1958       Rabbi Erwin Herman, Assistant Director

1959-1960       Sandra Benkoil, Assistant to the Director

1960-1971       Carol Horn, Assistant then Associate Director

1963-1971       Rabbi Henry Skirball, Associate then Director

1967-1970       Rabbi David Davis, Associate Director

1971-1986       Rabbi Stephen Schafer, Director then Director of UAHC Youth Division

1971-2002       Rabbi Allan Smith, Director Camp & Youth Programming

                               then Director of UAHC Youth Division

1971-1974       Linda Umansky Saiger, Assistant Director

1974-1977       Susan Lippman Knobles, Assistant Director

1975-              Paul J. Reichenbach, Co-Director URJ Kutz Camp then Director URJ College

                               Department then Director of Israel Programs then

                               Director of Camping and Israel Programs

1977-1981       Rabbi Leonard Troupp, Associate then Co-Director

1978-1987       Terry Goldstein, Special Projects Coordinator then Assistant Director

1978-1986       Rabbi Daniel Freelander, Assistant then Associate Director

1982-1989       Rabbi Ramie Arian, Director

1982-1984       Carol Siegel, Assistant Director

1986-1989       Ruth Bloomfield Margolin, Assistant then Associate Director

1989-1991       Debbie Fliegelman, Assistant Director

1989-1992       Beth Shanus, Assistant Director

1990-1995       David Frank, Director

1990-1991       Rabbi Mark Glickman, Director, Camp & Youth Leadership

1995-1996       Rabbi Michael Matuson, Assistant Director

1995-1999       Jonathan Cohen, Associate Director of Jr. & Sr. H.S. Programs

1998-1999       Dennis Eisner, Director of Jr. & Sr. H.S. Programs

1999-2007       Hope Chernak, NFTY-SER Advisor
                              then Southest Regional Director of Youth & Informal Ed.
                              then Director of NFTY Regions then Managing Director, NFTY 

1999-              Melissa Frey Goldman,  NFTY-TOR Advisor then NFTY-NEL Advisor
      then Asst. Director of NFTY,
      then NFTY Director of Operations & Special Projects

                              then Director, NFTY Leadership Academy at the Kutz Campus

                               then Co-Director, URJ Youth Division

1999-              Shelley Schweitzer, Interim NFTY-NEL Regional Advisor,

                                then Regional Director of Youth and Informal Education,

                                Northeast Lakes Council/Detroit Federation,
        then Consultant to the NFTY Leadership Team

2003-2005       Matthew Soffer, NFTY Program Assistant then NFTY Board Advisor

2004-2006       Rabbi Michael Friedman, Director of Jr. & Sr. H.S. Programs