A Board of Directors governs Gift of Life Michigan, setting all policies and overseeing all activity for the organization. Thirteen committees address issues ranging from histocompatibility to multiple-organ retrieval. Meetings take place bi-monthly.

Governing board 

As of Jan. 1, 2012
 

• Stanley Sherman, MD, West Michigan Surgical Specialist, P.C. (president)
• Alan Leichtman, MD, University of Michigan Health System (president elect)
• Scott Gruber, MD, PhD, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center (past president)
• Atsushi Yoshida, MD, Henry Ford Hospital (secretary)
• Michael P. Tyranski, Merrill Lynch (treasurer) 
• Donna Duvin, American Red Cross of Washtenaw County (at large)
• John E. Green Jr., Aegis Group Search Consultants, LLC (at large)

• Maurice Binkow, Esq., Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn LLP
• Robert Dobrusin, Beth Israel Congregation
  
• Stephen Economy, Brighton
• Sherrie Farrell, JD, Dykema Gossett, PLLC
• Mark Harris, Clear Channel Communications
• Dean Kim, MD, Henry Ford Hospital
• Anthony King, The Wellness Plan
  
• Elizabeth Rubinstein, Liver Recipient, TLC Program at Henry Ford Hospital
• John "Joe" Schwarz, MD, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
  

Advisory board

•  Darla Granger, MD, St. John Transplant Specialty Center  (chair) 
• Rick Hillbom, Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center (vice chair)
• James Andary II, JD, Andary, Andary, Davis and Andary
  
• Michael DeJong, MD, West Michigan Surgical Specialists, PC
• Carol Dwyer, Sparrow Hospital
• John Gerlach, Ph.D., Michigan State University
• James Hoogeboom, DO, Spectrum Health-Butterworth Hospital
• Michael Jaggi, DO, Hurley Medical Center
• Ruth Johnson, Michigan Secretary of State
• Timothy Keener, Keener and Associates LLC
• Asghar Khaghani, MD, Spectrum Butterworth Health Systems
• Terri Lynn Land, former Michigan Secretary of State
• John Magee, MD, University of Michigan Medical Center 
• Lauren Malinzak, MD, Henry Ford Hospital
• Karen Morey, President, Donate Life Coalition of Michigan
• Brian Peters, Michigan Health & Hospital Association
• Vandad Raofi, MD,William Beaumont Hospital
• Kevin Ross, Midwest Eye-Banks
• David Rozelle, Heart Recipient
• Mary Anne Stella, American Red Cross
• Panayiotis Varelas, MD, PhD, Henry Ford Hospital
• Henry Walters III, MD,Children’s Hospital of Michigan