This is the first day on the job for the new CEO of NAD. Howard Rosenblum takes over for Nancy Bloch. She began her role at NAD in 1992 as the first female CEO in the organization's history. Rosenblum served as an senior attorney for Chicago's Equip for Equality for 9 years. Prior to working at Equip, Rosenblum spent 10 years at a private law firm that specializes in disability rights. When he first became a lawyer some 20 years ago, he was the only profoundly deaf attorney in Illinois.