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Parent topics

• U.S. Constitution [r]: Document that states the fundamental constitutional law of the United States of America. ^[e]
• Bipartisanship [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Board of directors

• Stephen Hanlon [r]: Attorney and head of pro bono team, Holland & Knight LLP; board chair, Constitution Project ^[e]
• Mickey Edwards [r]: Director, Constitution Project and faculty at George Washington University; wrote Reclaiming Conservatism and focuses on restructuring of the U.S. political right; previously faculty at Harvard University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; U.S. House of Representatives (R-Oklahoma), 1977-1993; Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, 1989-1993; Former National Chairman, American Conservative Union; Founder, Heritage Foundation ^[e]
• Morton Halperin [r]: Open Society Policy Center; board of directors, Constitution Project; Advisory council, J Street; former Director of Policy Planning Staff; Coalition to Defend Free Speech ^[e]
• Timothy K. Lewis [r]: Add brief definition or description Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP; board of directors, Constitution Project
• Paul Saunders [r]: Add brief definition or description Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; board of directors, Constitution Project
• William Sessions [r]: Attorney partner in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C. office specializing in alternative dispute resolution; arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association, the International Center for Dispute Resolution and for the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution as a District Panelist, National Panelist of Distinguished Neutrals and on the Arbitration Appeal Panel; board of directors, Constitution Project; former Chief of the Government Operations Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; United States Attorney, judge and chief judge, Western District of Texas; Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation ^[e] Holland & Knight LLP; board of directors, Constitution Project
• Virginia Sloan [r]: Founder (1997), president and member of the board of directors, Constitution Project; special counsel to the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project; former counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Executive Director of the Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[e]

Policy Advisory Committee

• Christopher Caine [r]: Add brief definition or description Mercator XXI; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• Peter Edelman [r]: Professor of Law; Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Public Policy; Faculty Director, Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy, Georgetown University law school; policy advisory committee, Constitution Project; Advisory council, J Street; Board Chair, New Israel Fund ^[e]
• Dean Esserman [r]: Add brief definition or description Providence, Rhode Island Police Department; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• Rosemary B. Freeman [r]: Add brief definition or description PublicWorks; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• Thomas Gottschalk [r]: Add brief definition or description Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• David Keene [r]: Chairman, since 1984, of the American Conservative Union; managing associate at the Carmen Group, a lobbying firm; Board of Directors, National Rifle Association; Co-chair, Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project; past National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom; White House and Congressional staff; Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, Vanderbilt University’s Freedom Forum; Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Public Policy School ^[e]
• Abner Mikva [r]: Schwartz Lecturer and Senior Director, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago Law School; policy advisory and death penalty committees, Constitution Project former Member of Congress (D-IL), White House Counsel, and Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[e]
• Alberto Mora [r]: Attorney; Mars, Incorporated; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project; Board of Trustees, Freedom House; signatory, "Beyond Guantanamo"; Former General Counsel, U.S. Department of the Navy ^[e]
• Corey Owens [r]: Add brief definition or description United Food and Commercial Workers International Union ; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• L. Michael Seidman [r]: Add brief definition or description Georgetown University Law Center; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• Suzanne E. Spaulding [r]: Add brief definition or description Bingham McCutchen LLP; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• Roger Wilkins [r]: Add brief definition or description George Mason University; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project
• Hubert Williams [r]: Add brief definition or description Police Foundation; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project

Amicus brief committee

• William Clements [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jonathan Franklin [r]: Add brief definition or description Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
• David Gossett [r]: Add brief definition or description Mayer Brown LLP
• Christopher Handman [r]: Add brief definition or description Hogan & Hartson LLP
• L. Michael Seidman [r]: Add brief definition or description

Topic committees

Constitutional amendments

• Mickey Edwards [r]: Director, Constitution Project and faculty at George Washington University; wrote Reclaiming Conservatism and focuses on restructuring of the U.S. political right; previously faculty at Harvard University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; U.S. House of Representatives (R-Oklahoma), 1977-1993; Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, 1989-1993; Former National Chairman, American Conservative Union; Founder, Heritage Foundation ^[e] Co-chair
• Abner Mikva [r]: Schwartz Lecturer and Senior Director, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago Law School; policy advisory and death penalty committees, Constitution Project former Member of Congress (D-IL), White House Counsel, and Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[e] Co-chair
• George Anastaplo [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor of Law, Loyola University (Chicago); Lecturer in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago; Professor Emeritus of Political Science and of Philosophy, Dominican University
• Walter Berns [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Derek Bok [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionPresident Emeritus, Harvard University; Dean Emeritus, Harvard Law School; 300th Anniversary University Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Alan Brinkley [r]: Add brief definition or description Provost and Allan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University
• John H. Buchanan, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Former Member of Congress (R-AL)
• Dale Bumpers [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sheila Burke [r]: Add brief definition or description Smithsonian Institution, Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer; former Executive Dean and Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Charles Carroll Carter [r]: Add brief definition or description President Emeritus, Charles Carroll House of Annapolis
• Jesse H. Choper [r]: Add brief definition or description Earl Warren Professor of Public Law and Dean Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, Boalt School of Law
• Benjamin Civiletti [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Cohen [r]: Add brief definition or description Co-Director, Advocacy Institute
• Robert H. Cole [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor Emeritus of Law, University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
• Robert M. Cooper [r]: Add brief definition or description Lawyer

Courts Committee

• Mickey Edwards [r]: Director, Constitution Project and faculty at George Washington University; wrote Reclaiming Conservatism and focuses on restructuring of the U.S. political right; previously faculty at Harvard University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; U.S. House of Representatives (R-Oklahoma), 1977-1993; Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, 1989-1993; Former National Chairman, American Conservative Union; Founder, Heritage Foundation ^[e] Co-chair
• William Sessions [r]: Attorney partner in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C. office specializing in alternative dispute resolution; arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association, the International Center for Dispute Resolution and for the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution as a District Panelist, National Panelist of Distinguished Neutrals and on the Arbitration Appeal Panel; board of directors, Constitution Project; former Chief of the Government Operations Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; United States Attorney, judge and chief judge, Western District of Texas; Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation ^[e] Co-chair
• Jan Baran [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Luke Bierman [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jeffrey Blattner [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cynthia Canary [r]: Add brief definition or description Director, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
• Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Former President, Simmons College
• Erwin Chemerinsky [r]: Add brief definition or description Alston and Bird Professor of Law, Duke University Law School
• Michael Gerhardt [r]: Add brief definition or description Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, Center for Law and Government, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Charles Geyh [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law
• Deborah Goldberg [r]: Add brief definition or description Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law
• Thomas Gottschalk [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tracy Hahn-Burkett [r]: Add brief definition or description Legislative Counsel, People for the American Way Foundation
• James L. Huffman [r]: Add brief definition or description Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law and former Dean, Lewis & Clark Law School
• Charles E. M. Kolb [r]: Add brief definition or description President, Committee for Economic Development
• Timothy Lewis [r]: Add brief definition or description Co-Chair, Appellate Practice Group, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP; former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Edward M. Madeira, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, Pepper Hamilton LLP
• Steven C. Markoff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John J. McMackin, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Partner, Williams & Jensen
• Abner Mikva [r]: Schwartz Lecturer and Senior Director, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago Law School; policy advisory and death penalty committees, Constitution Project former Member of Congress (D-IL), White House Counsel, and Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[e]
• Burt Neuborne [r]: Add brief definition or description Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties and Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law
• Charles Nihan [r]: Add brief definition or description Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Alameda, CA
• William A. Norris [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Kyle O'Dowd [r]: Add brief definition or description Legislative Director, National Associationof Criminal Defense Lawyers
• James L. Oakes [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Robert S. Peck [r]: Add brief definition or description President, Center for Constitutional Litigation
• Bernard Petrie [r]: Add brief definition or description Former Member, California Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission
• Thomas Plough [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Leslie M. Proll [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Attorney, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; Courts Committee, Constitution Project; Courts Committee, Constitution Project
• Lynn Rhinehart [r]: Add brief definition or description Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO; Courts Committee, Constitution Project
• Walter Rieman [r]: Add brief definition or description Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Courts Committee, Constitution Project
• William Ruckelshaus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Solimine [r]: Add brief definition or description Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law, University of Cinncinatti College of Law; ; Courts Committee, Constitution Project
• Larry D. Thompson [r]: Add brief definition or description General Counsel, PepsiCo, Inc.;Courts Committee, Constitution Project; Deputy Attorney General of the United States, 2001-2003; former United StatesAttorney]], [[Northern District of Georgia]
• Joseph P. Tomain [r]: Add brief definition or description Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
• Robert A. Van Kirk [r]: Add brief definition or description Partner, Williams & Connolly; ; Courts Committee, Constitution Project; Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996-1997; Office of Counsel to the President, 1995-1996

Liberty and Security Committee

• David Cole [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Keene [r]: Chairman, since 1984, of the American Conservative Union; managing associate at the Carmen Group, a lobbying firm; Board of Directors, National Rifle Association; Co-chair, Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project; past National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom; White House and Congressional staff; Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, Vanderbilt University’s Freedom Forum; Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Public Policy School ^[e] Co-chair
• Stephen Abraham [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Azizah al-Hibri [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bob Barr [r]: Add brief definition or description Consultant on Privacy Matters for the ACLU; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• David Birenbaum [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Christopher Bryant [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Assistant to the Senate Legal Counsel, 1997-99
• Wesley Clark [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jack Cloonan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phillip Cooper [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• John J. Curtin, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Dean [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mickey Edwards [r]: Director, Constitution Project and faculty at George Washington University; wrote Reclaiming Conservatism and focuses on restructuring of the U.S. political right; previously faculty at Harvard University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; U.S. House of Representatives (R-Oklahoma), 1977-1993; Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, 1989-1993; Former National Chairman, American Conservative Union; Founder, Heritage Foundation ^[e]
• Richard Epstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas B. Evans, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Chairman, The Evans Group, Ltd.; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Founder Florida Coalition for Preservation; United States Representative (R-DE), 1977-1983
• Bruce Fein [r]: Add brief definition or description Constitutional lawyer and international consultant, Bruce Fein & Associates and The Lichfield Group; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Associate Deputy Attorney General, Reagan administration
• Eugene Fidell [r]: Add brief definition or description President, National Institute of Military Justice; Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• Louis Fisher [r]: Add brief definition or description
• C. Welton Gaddy [r]: Add brief definition or description Executive Director, The Interfaith Alliance; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• Michael German [r]: Add brief definition or description Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Adjunct Professor, National Defense University School for National Security Executive Education; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation,1988-2004
• Melvin A. Goodman [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Fellow, National Security Project, Center for International Policy; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project;
• Morton Halperin [r]: Open Society Policy Center; board of directors, Constitution Project; Advisory council, J Street; former Director of Policy Planning Staff; Coalition to Defend Free Speech ^[e]
• Philip Heymann [r]: Add brief definition or description James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Deputy Attorney General, Clinton administration
• Robert E. Hunter [r]: Add brief definition or description Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98
• Asa Hutchinson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Kay [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Christopher S. Kelley [r]: Add brief definition or description Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University (Ohio)
• David Lawrence, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description President, Early Childhood Initiative Foundation; former Publisher, Miami Herald and Detroit Free Press
• Robert A. Levy [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• Thomas E. Mann [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kate Martin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alberto Mora [r]: Attorney; Mars, Incorporated; Policy Advisory Committee, Constitution Project; Board of Trustees, Freedom House; signatory, "Beyond Guantanamo"; Former General Counsel, U.S. Department of the Navy ^[e]
• Christopher Mustain [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Program Manager, Governmental Programs, IBM; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• William Nash [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Grover Norquist [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Norman Ornstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Deborah N. Pearlstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Pickering [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Roger Pilon [r]: Add brief definition or description Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute
• John Podesta [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jack Rakove [r]: Add brief definition or description W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• Peter Raven-Hansen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• L. Michael Seidman [r]: Add brief definition or description Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• John Seigenthaler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Sessions [r]: Attorney partner in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C. office specializing in alternative dispute resolution; arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association, the International Center for Dispute Resolution and for the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution as a District Panelist, National Panelist of Distinguished Neutrals and on the Arbitration Appeal Panel; board of directors, Constitution Project; former Chief of the Government Operations Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; United States Attorney, judge and chief judge, Western District of Texas; Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation ^[e]
• Jerome Shestack [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Shore [r]: Add brief definition or description Founder and President, noborg LLC; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; former Senior Advisor for Science and Technology to Senator Patrick Leahy
• Earl Silbert [r]: Add brief definition or description Partner, DLA Piper; United States Attorney, District of Columbia (1974-1979); Former Watergate Prosecutor
• David Skaggs [r]: Add brief definition or description Executive Director, Colorado Commission on Higher Education; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; former Member of Congress (D-CO)
• Fred L. Smith, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Founder and President, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• Neal Sonnett [r]: Add brief definition or description Chair, American Bar Association Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants and Task Force on Domestic Surveillance in the Fight Against Terrorism
• Suzanne E. Spaulding [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Geoffrey R. Stone [r]: Add brief definition or description Chicago
• Jane Stromseth [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; contributor to The U.S. Constitution and the Power to Go to War; former Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs, National Security Council
• William H. Taft, IV [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Terzano [r]: Add brief definition or description Vice President, Veterans for America; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• James A. Thurber [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Charles Tiefer [r]: Add brief definition or description General Counsel (Acting) 1993-94, Solicitor and Deputy General Counsel, 1984-95, U.S. House of Representatives
• Colby Vokey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Patricia McGowan Wald [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Don Wallace, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Chairman, International Law Institute; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• John Whitehead [r]: Add brief definition or description President, Rutherford Institute; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project
• Sean Wilentz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lawrence Wilkerson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Roger Wilkins [r]: Add brief definition or description

Former Members

• Floyd Abrams [r]: Add brief definition or description (2001-2008) Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
• Eliot Cohen [r]: Add brief definition or description (2001-2007) Former Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
• Walter Cronkite [r]: Add brief definition or description (deceased) Former Managing Editor, CBS Evening News; Special Correspondent, CBS News
• Will A. Gunn [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Amy Gutmann [r]: Add brief definition or description President and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; former Provost, Princeton University
• Harold Koh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Steven Lilienthal [r]: Add brief definition or description Former Director, Center for Privacy and Technology Policy, Free Congress Foundation
• Joseph Margulies [r]: Add brief definition or description Deputy Director, MacArthur Justice Center; Associate Clinical Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
• James Steinberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paul Weyrich [r]: Add brief definition or description

Reporters

• Marc Blitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Linda Bosniak [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionDistinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law; Reporter, Constitution Project,Immigration and Counterterrorism
• Erwin Chemerinsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Will T. DeVries [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionAssociate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Reporter, Constitution Project,Guidelines for Public Video Surveillance)
• Michael J. Gerhardt [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionSamuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, Center for Law and Government, University of North Carolina School of Law; Reporter, Constitution Project,Report on First Amendment Issues
• Juliette Kayyem [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Medine [r]: Add brief definition or description Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Reporter, Constitution Project, Classification and Controlled Unclassified Information
• Anne Sherwood [r]: Add brief definition or description Associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Reporter, Constitution Project, Classification and Controlled Unclassified Information
• Peter Shane [r]: Add brief definition or description ; Reporter, Constitution Project, (Government Watch Lists)Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law and Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University; Reporter, Constitution Project, (Government Watch Lists)
• Stephen I. Vladeck [r]: Add brief definition or description Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law; reporter, Constitution Project; (National Security Courts)

War Powers

• Mickey Edwards [r]: Director, Constitution Project and faculty at George Washington University; wrote Reclaiming Conservatism and focuses on restructuring of the U.S. political right; previously faculty at Harvard University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; U.S. House of Representatives (R-Oklahoma), 1977-1993; Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, 1989-1993; Former National Chairman, American Conservative Union; Founder, Heritage Foundation ^[e] Co-chair
• David Skaggs [r]: Add brief definition or description Co-chair Executive Director, Colorado Commission on Higher Education; former Member of Congress (D-CO)
• Louis Fisher [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Glennon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Morton Halperin [r]: Open Society Policy Center; board of directors, Constitution Project; Advisory council, J Street; former Director of Policy Planning Staff; Coalition to Defend Free Speech ^[e]
• Peter Raven-Hansen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Susan Rice [r]: Add brief definition or description
• James Sasser [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jane Stromseth [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Patricia McGowan Wald [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Don Wallace, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Togo West [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edwin Williamson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• R. James Woolsey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael K. Young [r]: Add brief definition or description President, University of Utah; former Dean, George Washington University Law School; War Powers Committee, Constitution Project

Former Members

• George Joulwan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Harold Koh [r]: Add brief definition or description

Death penalty

• Gerald Kogan [r]: Add brief definition or description Death penalty committee, Constitution Project; Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Florida; former Chief Prosecutor, Homicide and Capital Crimes Division, Dade County, Florida
• Beth A. Wilkinson [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionco-chair, Prosecutor, Oklahoma City bombing case
• Harry Barnes, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Former United States Ambassador to Romania, India, and Chile
• Bob Barr [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Broaddus [r]: Add brief definition or description Former Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia
• David Bruck [r]: Add brief definition or description Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse, Washington and Lee University School of Law
• Robert J. Burns [r]: Add brief definition or description Retired Judge, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
• W.J. Michael Cody [r]: Add brief definition or description Former Attorney General, State of Tennessee
• James A. Fry [r]: Add brief definition or description James A. Fry, P.C. 1982-present; Assistant District Attorney, Dallas County, Texas 1980-1982; Former Chairman, Texas State Bar Grievance Committee
• John J. Gibbons [r]: Add brief definition or description Director and Founder, John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law, Gibbons PC; former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
• Thomas Gottschalk [r]: Add brief definition or description Executive Vice President, Law and Public Policy, General Motors Corporation
• Charles A. Gruber [r]: Add brief definition or description Chief of Police, South Barrington Police Department; former President, International Association of Chiefs of Police; former President, Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police
• Asa Hutchinson [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Partner, Asa Hutchinson Law Group; Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2003-2005; Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, 2001-2003; Member of Congress, (R-AR), 1997-2001; United States Attorney, Western District of Arkansas, 1982-1985
• William H. Keeler [r]: Add brief definition or description Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore
• Peter Keisler [r]: Add brief definition or description Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
• Paula M. Kurland [r]: Add brief definition or description Victim Advocate; founding Member, Bridges to Life (a victim-offender program in Texas); Mother of Murder Victim
• David Lawrence, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Abner Mikva [r]: Schwartz Lecturer and Senior Director, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, University of Chicago Law School; policy advisory and death penalty committees, Constitution Project former Member of Congress (D-IL), White House Counsel, and Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[e]
• Sam D. Millsap, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Former District Attorney, Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas
• Sheila M. Murphy [r]: Add brief definition or description Executive Director, Illinois Death Penalty Education Project; former Presiding Judge, Sixth District, State of Illinois
• LeRoy Riddick [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionForensic Pathologist
• Chase Riveland [r]: Add brief definition or description Former Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Washington
• David A. Schwartz [r]: Add brief definition or description President & CEO, DS Baseball LLC
• William Sessions [r]: Attorney partner in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C. office specializing in alternative dispute resolution; arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association, the International Center for Dispute Resolution and for the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution as a District Panelist, National Panelist of Distinguished Neutrals and on the Arbitration Appeal Panel; board of directors, Constitution Project; former Chief of the Government Operations Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; United States Attorney, judge and chief judge, Western District of Texas; Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation ^[e]
• G. Elaine Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description Former President, American Baptist Churches, United States of America
• Norman Stamper [r]: Add brief definition or description Chief of Police, Seattle, WA (1994-2000), former Police Officer, San Diego, CA
• Darrel Stephens [r]: Add brief definition or description Former Chief of Police, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, St. Petersburg, FL, Newport News, FL and Largo, FL; former City Administrator, St. Petersburg, FL; former Executive Director, Police Executive Research Forum
• B. Frank Stokes, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Retired; Private Investigator
• Jennifer Thompson [r]: Add brief definition or description Spokesperson, Center on Wrongful Convictions
• Scott Turow [r]: Add brief definition or description Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal; Author
• John W. Whitehead [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionPresident, The Rutherford Institute
• Reginald Wilkinson [r]: Add brief definition or description President & CEO of Ohio College Access Network
• Eric Yoffie [r]: Add brief definition or description Rabbi and President, Union for Reform Judaism

Former Members

• James E. Andrews [r]: Add brief definition or description(2000-2006; deceased) Stated Clerk of the General Assembly (retired), Presbyterian Church (United States of America)
• Charles F. Baird [r]: Add brief definition or description (1997-2006) Former Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1990-1998; Judge, District Court of Travis County, Texas (resigned upon appointment)
• Charles B. Blackmar [r]: Add brief definition or description (2004-2007; deceased) Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri
• Rosalynn Carter [r]: Add brief definition or description (1999-2004) Vice Chair of The Carter Center
• Mario Cuomo [r]: Add brief definition or description (1999-2002)Former Governor, State of New York
• Ann Landers [r]: Add brief definition or description (2000-2002; deceased)
• Timothy Lynch [r]: Add brief definition or description (1999-2004) Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute
• Laurie O. Robinson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kurt Schmoke [r]: Add brief definition or description (1999-2004) Dean, Howard University Law School; former Mayor, City of Baltimore, Maryland; former State's Attorney for the City of Baltimore, Maryland
• Vin Weber [r]: Add brief definition or description (1999-2001) Former Member of Congress (R-MN)

Reporters

• Susan Bandes [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty) Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois
• William J. Bowers [r]: Add brief definition or description (Social Science Consultant 1999-2001) College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Robert P. Mosteller [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty) Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
• Margaret Paris [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited) Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law
• Stephen Saltzburg [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty) Wallace and Beverly Woodley University Professor of Law, the George Washington University Law School
• Andrew Taslitz [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited) Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law