Theodore R. Mann served as Chairman of the Conference of Presidents from July 1978 through June 1980.

Mr. Mann was a senior partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Mann, Ungar, Spector & Labovitz, where he focused on commercial litigation and took on pro bono cases through the ACLU and American Jewish Congress. He was counsel in a number of major religious liberty cases argued before the United States Supreme Court and other courts.

He served as chairman of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC); chairman, National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (formerly the National Conference on Soviet Jewry); president, American Jewish Congress; chairman, Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA); and president, JCRC of Philadelphia.

Mr. Mann was the founding chairman, in 1985, of Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; and founding co-chairman of Project Nishma, which was created to encourage American Jewish organizations to be more supportive of the Middle East peace process.

In 2000, the JCPA presented Mann with the Albert Chernin Award for his “exemplary voluntary service to the field of Jewish community relations and the leading role he has taken in defending the First Amendment and religious freedoms for all Americans.”

He passed away in 2020.