As executive director for the APA’s Practice Directorate, Dr. Nordal manages a wide range of APA activities, including legislative advocacy, legal initiatives, and nationwide public education campaigns, including the Mind/Body Health Campaign. Dr. Nordal is a recipient of the APA’s Karl F. Heiser Presidential Award for advocacy on behalf of psychology. She was an APA/AAAS Congressional Science Fellow (1990-91) who served as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives and with the House Select Committee on Hunger. Her clinical interests included: learning, behavioral and emotional disorders in children and adolescents; neuropsychological assessment; brain injury in children and adults; and civil forensic psychology.