Akron Roundtable: Dave Lieberth, Executive Secretary of the Akron Bicentennial Commission, and President of the Akron Hi

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• Thursday, Dec 5, 2024  12pm

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Dave Lieberth is the Executive Secretary of the Akron Bicentennial Commission and the president of the Akron History Center, Inc. that will open in 2024 to become the city’s first enduring exhibit of the 200-year history of Akron.

He is chairman emeritus of the Summit County Historical Society and has been a member for 58 years.

From 1970 to 1999, he was a broadcast journalist, a lawyer, and an ardent civic activist. From 2002 to 2012, he was Deputy Mayor of Akron.

Dave was the founding president of the National Inventors Hall of Fame (1987.) He chaired Akron’s successful efforts to be named an “All-America City” by the National Civic League. (1995, 2008). In August 2000 he delivered the report of “Imagine.Akron:2025” to the Akron Roundtable after chairing a year-long visioning project for the City of Akron.

He is a charter member of the LeBron James Family Foundation Community Advisory Board. He became a member of the board of Summa Health in 1999, and presently chairs its Community Engagement Committee. He is the lone surviving member of the steering committee that founded the Leadership Akron program in 1983, and has presented to all 40 classes of its signature program.

In 2019, the Akron Community Foundation selected him as the recipient of the annual Bert M. Polsky Humanitarian Award for volunteering thousands of hours and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Akron civic, cultural, and charitable organizations.