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Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Carol McKay, carolm@nclnet.org or (412) 945-3242<\/p>\n
Washington, DC\u2014The National Consumers League salutes Jack Gillis on his 38 years of service to the consumer movement; Gillis has announced his retirement as Executive Director of the Consumer Federation of America.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe National Consumers League\u2019s Board of Directors and staff salute Jack Gillis and thank him for his decades of service and marvelous career dedicated to improving the lives of consumers,\u201d said Jenny Backus, Pastor Herrera, Susanna Montezemolo, and Debbie Berlyn, NCL board members who have known and worked with Jack over the years. \u201cHe has made us all proud to be consumer advocates. We will miss his leadership and know the consumer movement is forever changed because of his dedication and commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Gillis is also a well published author, co-author, and editor of 75 consumer books including The Car Book,<\/em> published for 40 consecutive years.\u00a0He served for 10 years as a contributing consumer correspondent for NBC\u2019s Today Show<\/em> representing CFA, was Good Housekeeping\u2019s <\/em>personal finance columnist, and was a child product safety columnist at Child Magazine<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Gillis has been with CFA since 1983, serving as Director of Public Affairs and, since 2018, as Executive Director. \u201cJack Gillis has been a leader, mentor, and friend to several generations of consumer advocates. Jack\u2019s vision for consumer issues is legendary, and he is known to the Washington establishment \u2013 members of Congress, regulators, and public interest advocates alike \u2014 as the face of consumer advocacy. Jack spearheaded CFA\u2019s leadership on a wide variety of consumer issues, including auto safety, financial services, housing, privacy, food, and product safety issues,\u201d said Sally Greenberg, NCL\u2019s Executive Director. \u201cJack always had a ready ear, provided support and sound advice to me and countless others toiling in the grapevines on behalf of consumers. It\u2019s a tough line of work and we will miss his camaraderie and friendship.\u00a0 We wish him well in this exciting new chapter of life.\u201d<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Consumers League salutes Jack Gillis on his 38 years of service to the consumer movement; Gillis has announced his retirement as Executive Director of the Consumer Federation of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[315],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21143,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions\/21143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}