Obituaries

He was a resident of the Alexandria section of Fairfax County. His memberships included Lincolnia United Methodist Church. As a young man, he was in the Fairfax 4-H club.

His marriage to Mary Ann Jordan Gerald ended in divorce.

Survivors include his mother, Jill Gerald of Fairfax County; a sister; and a grandmother, Mary Gerald of Alexandria.

-- Adam Bernstein

Claire L. PhillipsBudget Analyst

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Claire L. Phillips, 85, a retired budget analyst for the Navy Department, died of a heart attack Oct. 22 at the Annapolitan Care Center, an assisted living community in Annapolis.

Born in Paterson, N.J., Ms. Phillips moved with her family to North Carolina in the 1930s. She attended Elon College, later moved to Northern Virginia and lived in Alexandria for more than 50 years. She moved to Annapolis last month.

She joined the Navy Department in 1952 and worked as a budget analyst for 38 years. She retired as a financial management officer for the Naval Civilian Personnel Center in 1990.

Ms. Phillips was active in social, charitable and professional organizations in Northern Virginia, including Beta Sigma Phi sorority and the Business and Professional Women's Club of Northern Virginia. She served as president of Beta Sigma Phi and president and district director of the Business and Professional Women's Club.

She enjoyed traveling, collecting and creating a variety of crafts and needlework, holiday baking and caring for her pets. A voracious reader, she had a particular fondness for mysteries.

She had no immediate survivors.

-- Joe Holley

David J. GreenburgLaw Association Executive

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David Julius Greenburg, 82, founding executive director of the National Health Lawyers Association, which became one of the country's largest legal education societies, died Nov. 14 at George Washington University Hospital. He had respiratory failure.

Mr. Greenburg had a pivotal role in the association's founding in 1971 and spent 20 years as its executive director. At the time the organization started, health law was not a major specialty, although Medicare and Medicaid had recently been enacted.

He also had a key part in the creation of the American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys, which merged with the National Health Lawyers Association in 1997 to form the American Health Lawyers Association.

Mr. Greenburg was born in Atlantic City and spent much of his childhood in what was the British mandate of Palestine. As a child, he contracted polio; he walked with a cane most of his life.

He was a graduate of Boston University and its law school. Early in his career, he was an adviser at the Labor Department solicitor general's office and did legal work for the American Hospital Association. At the hospital association in 1967, he helped start what became the American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys.

Survivors include a sister.

-- Adam Bernstein