Lamarr Couser, National Membership Director
Lamarr Couser has been appointed National Membership Director at DAV National Headquarters.
In this role, Couser will oversee DAV’s efforts to maintain and engage membership, ensuring the organization has the strength and support needed to fulfill its mission of service and advocacy.
A service-disabled veteran of the Navy and Army National Guard, Couser served in Somalia, Iraq and Kuwait. He retired from the Virginia Army National Guard in 2014. He joined DAV in 2007 as a national service officer apprentice in Baltimore and was later promoted to Senior National Service Officer in Washington, D.C. He supervised the Baltimore office for nine years before becoming Assistant National Employment Director in 2023 and National Employment Director in 2024.
He is a life member of Chapter 33 in Jessup, Maryland, and previously served as the DAV Department of Maryland commander in 2013 and judge advocate in 2009. He and his wife Valencia live in Burlington, Kentucky. He has two children and a grandson.