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Key Facts
- National overview: ABA materials describe Executive Director Jack L. Rives as having overall management responsibility for staff operations at ABA’s headquarters in Chicago, its Washington, D.C., office, and program sites in California, Texas, and some 60 countries.
- National overview: ABA materials say Deputy Executive Director Alpha Brady would serve as interim executive director after Rives departs until a permanent replacement is named.
- National overview: ABA materials state that Rives joined the ABA on Law Day (May 1) in 2010.
- Federal level: IRS’s Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) lets people find information about an organization’s tax-exempt status and filings, including Pub. 78 Data, Form 990 series returns, and Form 990-N (e-Postcard).
- Federal level: IRS guidance says exempt organizations must make their exemption application and annual return available for public inspection and copying, with returns available for a three-year period beginning with the due date of the return (including extensions) or the actual filing date, whichever is later.
- Federal level: IRS explains that tax-exempt organizations file Form 990 and Form 990-EZ to provide the IRS with information required by Internal Revenue Code section 6033.
This archive recovery explains what later American Bar Association (ABA) archive releases confirm about Jack L. Rives’s executive director transition, then places that historical leadership record beside enduring IRS (federal) public-disclosure rules for tax-exempt organizations.
The targeted April 2010 ABA archive headline for naming Jack L. Rives as executive director is not retrievable in this recovery run: the original page is linked below as a “Page Not Found” result. Because the specific April 2010 text could not be retrieved, the article uses later ABA archive releases that describe the start of his tenure and the transition at the end of his service: ABA names Jack L. Rives new executive director (2010/04).
Why an executive director announcement mattered
An executive director role affects how a private membership organization runs day-to-day through operational management, program administration, and related institutional initiatives. That practical “who is running the organization” information is why a dated leadership announcement can still matter as historical context, even when the original headline no longer loads.
What later ABA releases confirm about Jack L. Rives
ABA’s November 2022 transition release describes Jack L. Rives as having overall management responsibility for staff operations at ABA’s headquarters in Chicago, its Washington, D.C., office, and program sites in California, Texas, and some 60 countries. Source: Executive Director Jack L. Rives to leave the American Bar Association.
The same ABA November 2022 release also describes executive director responsibilities, including membership and non-dues revenue program responsibilities, and it describes transition planning: it states that Deputy Executive Director Alpha Brady would serve as interim executive director until a permanent replacement is named, and it reports that Rives had announced plans to leave at the end of February 2023 after more than 12 years as executive director. The release also states that Rives joined the ABA on Law Day (May 1) in 2010. Source: Executive Director Jack L. Rives to leave the American Bar Association.
End of tenure timing described in the ABA’s 2023 archive
In February 2023, ABA’s archive release reports that Rives delivered his “State of the Association” report to delegates of the ABA House of Delegates and describes his planned departure from the association in March. Source: Midyear 2023: ABA executive director delivers final address to House of Delegates.
Archive detail alignment with later sources
The table below separates what this run could verify (from later ABA archive releases) from what the missing April 2010 page might have supplied (but could not be retrieved here):
| Archive detail goal | What this run could verify from later ABA sources |
|---|---|
| Quote-level text from the April 2010 executive director announcement | Not retrieved because the April 2010 matching page returned “Page Not Found” in this recovery run: ABA names Jack L. Rives new executive director (2010/04). |
| Start-of-tenure timing | ABA describes Rives joining on Law Day (May 1) in 2010. |
| Transition structure at departure | ABA describes an interim period led by Deputy Executive Director Alpha Brady until a permanent replacement is named. |
| End-of-tenure operational reporting | ABA describes a “State of the Association” report to House of Delegates delegates in February 2023 and departure timing in March. |
Related ABA leadership archive items include ABA president-elect archive and ABA headquarters archive.
Federal public disclosure rules that outlast nonprofit headlines
Federal tax administration creates a parallel, long-lived public record for tax-exempt organizations. IRS guidance explains that certain exempt-organization documents (including the exemption application and the annual return) must be made available for public inspection and copying, and it states that annual returns must be available for a three-year period beginning with the due date of the return (including extensions) or the actual filing date, whichever is later. Source: Public disclosure and availability of exempt organizations returns and applications: Documents subject to public disclosure.
How IRS TEOS and Form 990 materials fit into the archive record
IRS describes its Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) tool as a way to find an organization’s tax-exempt status and filings, and it links those searches to public data such as Pub. 78 Data and to the kinds of return forms that are part of the public disclosure record. Source: Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS). IRS also explains that tax-exempt organizations file Form 990 to provide the information required by Internal Revenue Code section 6033 and file Form 990-EZ to provide information required by section 6033. Sources: About Form 990 and About Form 990-EZ. This helps explain why specific leadership headlines (like an ABA executive director announcement) can disappear from an archive, while federal disclosure materials can remain available for research.
Sources
- Executive Director Jack L. Rives to leave the American Bar Association
- Midyear 2023: ABA executive director delivers final address to House of Delegates
- ABA names Jack L. Rives new executive director (2010/04)
- Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS)
- Public disclosure and availability of exempt organizations documents
- About Form 990
- About Form 990-EZ
