Butzel attorney Mark Lezotte appointed Chair, Board of Directors for SourceAmerica
DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel attorney and shareholder Mark Lezotte was recently appointed Chair, Board of Directors for SourceAmerica®, an AbilityOne® authorized enterprise that connects the federal government and a national network of more than 350 AbilityOne authorized providers, who hire a talented and diverse workforce segment - people with disabilities.
Lezotte has served on the SourceAmerica Board of Directors since 2013.
"We are pleased to welcome Mark as our new board chair, as he helps to advance our mission to provide more employment opportunities and choices for people with disabilities,” said Richard Belden, SourceAmerica president and CEO. “His dedication to the disability community and his extensive experience in nonprofit governance are valuable assets that will strengthen SourceAmerica’s goal to continue to create stable jobs with competitive wages and advancement potential.”
Based in Butzel’s Detroit office, Lezotte is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Health Care Industry Team. He has substantial experience in corporate, healthcare, exempt organization, and tax matters, including corporate and nonprofit governance, hospital-physician ventures and other healthcare transactions, regulatory investigations, tax exemption matters, and a wide range of business and commercial transactions.
Lezotte also serves on the United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) National Board, and has served on many civic and community boards, including local boards and committees of the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition, Southwest Solutions, Michigan UCP, Metro Health Foundation, Disability Rights Michigan, the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, and the Generation of Promise Program at Focus: Hope.
He is a former council member of the State Bar of Michigan Business Law Section and former co-chair of the Nonprofit Corporations Committee, as well as former co-chair of the Health Law Committee of the local Federal Bar Association chapter.
