Director
Coleman Nee, a service-connected disabled Marine veteran, was elected national commander for the nearly 1 million-member DAV at the organization’s national convention in Las Vegas and currently serves as an advisor on DAV’s national board of directors.
Nee was previously appointed by the governor of Massachusetts to serve as the commonwealth’s secretary of veterans’ services from 2011 to 2015, overseeing $100 million in state funding for veterans and dependents, financial aid and programming. During Nee’s tenure, the department created a number of new initiatives to increase access to services for Massachusetts veterans, including the more than 47,000 veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nee was elected to serve on the National Executive Committee from 2017 to 2019 and served on the board of directors during the same period. He also serves as an advisor on DAV’s board of directors, director for DAV’s National Service Foundation, DAV’s Charitable Service Trust and The American Disabled Veterans for Life Memorial.
A life member of Chapter 3 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Nee has served as the Department of Massachusetts assistant judge advocate and chair of the Homeless Veterans Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Incarcerated Veterans Outreach Committee. He served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1986 to 1994, with an active-duty deployment during the Persian Gulf War.