Mr. Paul Kuhn is a partner with an investment management firm in Nashville, Tennessee. A Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University and a former Navy officer, he received his MBA degree from Indiana University.

His late wife, Jeanne, died in 1996 following a long fight with cancer, during which she found medical marijuana the only relief that allowed her to continue several regimens of chemotherapy.

Mr. Kuhn is a long-time NORML supporter and activist. He ran the Illinois NORML program during the 1970s when he lived in Chicago and served on the NORML board for a number of years during the 1980s. He rejoined the board in 1996 and now chairs the NORML Foundation's Development Committee.