Steven T. Walther is Chair of the Executive Board of the ABA Center for Human Rights. Mr. Walther is a founding member of the law firm of Walther, Key, Maupin, Oats, Cox & LeGoy of Reno, Nevada. Mr. Walther is a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, and has served as Chair of both the ABA Standing Committee on World Order Under Law and the ABA Special Advisory Committee on International Activities. Mr. Walther currently serves as Counselor to the ABA Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI), which oversees all rule of law activities of the ABA in 21 countries in Central and East Europe. Mr. Walther has also served as the ABA representative to the United Nations. He also served as Co-Chair of the ABA Task Force on War Crimes in Ethiopia. He also served as Secretary of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, and is President-Elect of the National Caucus of State Bar Associations. Mr. Walther is currently President of the Boalt Hall Alumni Association at the University of California, Berkley. Mr. Walther is a former trustee of The National Judicial College of Reno, Nevada, and is currently Chair of its Center for International Judicial Education. Mr. Walther has also served as instructor for The National Judicial College, both in the United States and in Russia. Mr. Walther is a former President of the State Bar of Nevada, and is also a former President of the Western States Bar Conference. He is a member of the Martindale-Hubbell/LexisNexis Legal Advisory Board, and a member of the American Law Institute.

Mr. Walther received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, with a major in Russian, in 1961. He received his J.D. degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, in 1965. Mr. Walther has written extensively and has frequently been a panelist and guest lecturer on the rule of law and international human rights issues. He recently published an article entitled The Globalization of the Rule of Law and Human Rights, Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies (Special Issue, 2000 - The Global Century), Elsevier Science, Ltd., Oxford, U.K.