The Community Resilience Handbook

George B. Huff, Jr., is the founder of The Continuity Project, LLC, which provides coaching, mentoring and consulting services on emergency preparedness and response, and business continuity management systems for organizations of all types and sizes.




Prior to founding The Continuity Project, George served as Attorney-Advisor for the Space and Facilities Division of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO). George advised the U.S. Judicial Conference's Committees on Space and Facilities and Judicial Security. In his work with the Judiciary, George also served as a law clerk in the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., in the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, and in a variety of legal positions at the AO associated with court management, facilities and security. As a former Deputy Attorney General of Indiana, he is the attorney of record on a number of reported cases. George retired from the Army Reserve after service in various senior-level operational positions.




George's primary additional duty with the Administrative Office of mthe U.S. Courts was advising the AO's Judiciary Emergency Preparedness Office during more than 35 disaster-related incidents affecting court operations throughout the U.S. He has published cover articles on business continuity and pandemic preparedness in journals of Federal and American Bar Associations. George is a Certified Business Continuity Professional. In addition, he served as the advisor to the Judiciary Emergency Preparedness Program providing guidance and assistance for operational continuity management programs. He participated in the activities of the Interagency Continuity Advisory Group. George conducted continuity exercises for the AO and U.S. courts, and continues to teach business continuity in continuing legal education programs and webinars.



George is a graduate of the Park-Tudor School in Indianapolis. He holds an undergraduate degree from Hanover College, attended the Graduate school in Forensic Studies at Indiana University, and the College of Law of Northern Illinois University. As an U.S. Army Reserve officer, George qualified an an airborne-ranger and earned the green beret. He completed the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the British Territorial Army Command and Staff College, and the Air War College's Associate Program. He was awarded the Legion of Merit and other military decorations. An active member of the bar of the Indiana Supreme Court and a number of federal courts , George serves as a Member of the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Emergency Response and Preparedness.

Edward A. Thomas, Esq.




Ed Thomas is an expert on working with communities and people to help prevent foreseeable processes of nature becoming disasters. He has worked on recovery operations from over 200 disasters, assisting individuals, businesses, farms and communities to carefully craft acceptable efforts to recover as quickly as possible, while striving to relocate damaged properties and develop environmentally acceptable development.




Ed, a widely published author and frequent lecturer, just completed his eighth and final term as President of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association. He is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Association (ABA) Foundation and past elected member of the Council of the State and Local Government Section (SLGL) of the ABA. He is as a member of the ABA Disaster Response and Preparedness Committee and manages the ABA SLGL Resilience Task Force. In addition, Ed serves on the Advisory Committee of the Natural Hazards Center of the University of Colorado. He is a member of the National Institute of Building Sciences, and the Association of State Wetland Managers. He is a former Board Member of the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM); and currently serves as the Senior Liaison and Legal Liaison to the ASFPM No Adverse Impact Committee. During his career in HUD and FEMA, Ed worked on about two hundred disasters and emergencies, serving as the President's on scene representative, the Federal Coordinating Officer, dozens of times.




He manages a private practice of Law, Edward A. Thomas Esq., LLC and lives with his wife in the beautiful, bu Earthquake prone, Rancho Mirage, California




Contact information:



Edward A. Thomas Esq., LLC




69815 Camino Pacifico




Rancho Mirage, CA 92270




Quincy, MA 02171-1550




ed.nhma@gmail.com




617-515-3849

Nancy McNabb holds a master's in architecture (structures) and a bachelor of science in architectural studies from the University

of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana (UIUC). She is a registered architect in New York and Pennsylvania.




After graduation from architecture school, Ms. McNabb was a visiting assistant professor in the UIUC School of Architecture and a project architect in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Upon moving to upstate New York, she served as assistant director for Code Development and Code Interpretation, and was acting director for the New York State Department of State, Codes Division. Ms. McNabb moved to a staff architect position at Building Officials and Code Administrators International (BOCA) where her duties included facilitating code adoptions, conducting trainings on code interpretations, and representing the organization at legislative hearings.




Ms. McNabb joined the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in September 2001 as Regional Manager, Building Code Central Field Office, in Dallas, Texas. In 2005, she was named the director at NFPA's Government Affairs Office in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for working with congressional and federal agencies as well as allied organizations to promote the NFPA mission about fire and life safety. In 2010, Ms. McNabb became the manager, Building and Fire Codes and Standards of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her responsibilities there including developing and implementing a NIST-wide strategy, including needed supporting research, to provide the technical basis resulting in improvements to U.S. model building and fire codes and standards, as well as relevant international standards, to support strategic goals in areas of critical national need, such as sustainability, energy efficiency, safety, security, and community resilience.




Ms. McNabb formed McNabb & Associates in 2017 and joined The Continuity Project where she continues to utilize her expertise in resilience planning and represent requests before agencies and organizations tied to the building and safety community. She currently serves on the board as secretary on the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council, and is active in developing, implementing, and maintaining strategic partnerships and strong working relationships at the local, state, and national levels.