Michael L. Tichnor

Michael L. Tichnor is an American real estate businessman and activist. He is the founder and president of Tichnor Properties. Since 2022, he has been the national president of the American Jewish Committee.

Biography
Michael L. Tichnor graduated from the Boston College Law School in 1977. He is the founder and president of the real estate company Tichnor Properties.

Together with his wife Karen Tichnor, he has a long history of advocacy for the Jewish community of the Boston and MetroWest areas. He joined the American Jewish Committee in 1997 and became the organization's regional president for New England in 2009. He has been a member of the American Jewish Committee's Executive Council on a national level and became its national president in 2022, succeeding Harriet P. Schleifer.

Tichnor has been a member of the boards of the Metrowest Jewish Day School and the CJP's Metrowest Committee. He has been engaged in OneinForty, an organization that aims to raise awareness of genetic factors that increase the risk of cancer among Ashkenazi Jews. Tichnor has been chairman of the Board of Selectmen in Wayland, Massachusetts.