Standing Committee on Law and National Security:

Chair: Al Harvey, Major General, USMC (ret.) private practice, Memphis, TN and former Board of Governors’ liaison to Standing Committee and former President, Tennessee Bar Association.

David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law.

Mary DeRosa, Chief Counsel for National Security, Senate Committee on the Judiciary and former Special Assistant to the President and Legal Adviser, National Security Council.

James M. Durant III, Lt. Col., United States Air Force, Staff Judge Advocate.

Eugene Fidell, President, National Institute of Military Justice and partner and head of the Military Practice Group at Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP. Retired Lieutenant Commander, US Coast Guard.

Philip Heymann, Professor, Harvard Law School.

Vincent Polley, currently in private practice, Detroit, MI, focusing on cyberspace law.

Michael Posner, Executive Director, Human Rights First, NY.

Jonathan R. Scharfen, Deputy Director, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC

Michael Smith, Consultant with Booze Allen and Hamilton

Charles White, Jr., U.S. Army, (ret.) currently in private practice, Alexandria, VA.

Special Advisor to the Committee:

Nicholas Rostow, University Counsel & Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, The State University of New York. Former General Counsel to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

Chair: Suzanne E. Spaulding, Principal, Bingham Consulting Group, LLP and former Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; former Director, National Commission on Terrorism and former General Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Stewart A. Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former General Counsel to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Previously served as General Counsel, National Security Agency.

Spike Bowman, Deputy Director, Office of National Counterintelligence Executive

Rodney Bullard, Major, USAF, serves in the Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Legislative Liaison at the Department of Defense. Prior White House Fellow, assigned as special assistant to the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

M. Joe Crosthwait, Jr. Partner, The Crosthwait Law Firm in Midwest City, OK.

Stephen Dycus, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School and co-author of the first “National Security Law” textbook.

Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Director & General Counsel to the House Committee on Homeland Security. Former Senior Counsel, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice.

William Hannay, Chair, Schiff, Hardin & Waite’s Antitrust Practice Group in Chicago, IL. Partner in the firm’s White Collar Crime Insurance Intellectual Property and International Practice Group.

Thomas L. Hemingway, Brig. Gen., Legal Adviser to the Appointing Authority, Office of Military Commissions, Department of Defense.

Caroline Krass, Senior Counsel in Office of Legal Counsel at Department of Justice. Former Deputy Legal Advisor at National Security Council; former Special Assistant to General Counsel, Department of Treasury; former Attorney-Advisor at Office of Legal Advisor at Department of State

Lori Kroll, Counsel for Environment and Transportation Issues, North Carolina Department of Transportation, Raleigh, NC.

Robert Litt, private practice, Washington, DC. Former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in Crime Division of Department of Justice

Carrie Newton Lyons, National Indian Gaming Commission and former operations officer, CIA.

Francesca Maher, Chief Executive Officer, American Red Cross of Greater Chicago and former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of United Airlines during 9/11.

Andrew McCarthy, Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and former federal prosecutor.

James E. McPherson, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy and General Counsel, Counterintelligence Field Activity and former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy.

Leigh B. Middleditch, Vice President, State Government Relations Group, McGuire Woods Consulting.

Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Dean, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and former Standing Committee Chair; former General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, and former Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State.

Wyndee Parker, Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Jill Rhodes, Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Education and Training, Integration, and Collaboration, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Ruth Wedgwood, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and Director of the Program in International Law and Organizations at John Hopkins University. Serves on Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law and the Defense Policy Board. Serves as American member of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva.

Edwin Williamson, private practice, Washington, DC, former legal Advisor, Department of State. Member of Council on Foreign Relations and member of Executive Council of American Society of International Law.

Special Advisor to the Advisory Committee:

Harvey Rishikof, Professor, National Security Law, National War College,  Washington, DC.

Scott Silliman, Director on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC.

1. Judge Robinson O. Everett, Founder, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University School of Law.
2. Richard Friedman, President and Chair, National Strategy Forum
3. Ambassador Max Kampelman, former Delegation Head to the Nuclear and Space Arms Negotiations in Geneva.
4. John O. Marsh, former Secretary of the Army, former Congressman.
5. John Norton Moore, Walter L. Brown Professor, University of Virginia School of Law and Director, Center for National Security Law.
6. William H. Webster, former Federal Judge and Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of Central
7. R. James Woolsey, Booz Allen Hamilton and former Director of Central Intelligence.

Contact Information:
Holly McMahon, Staff Director
740 15th Street, NW, 9th Floor
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Phone: (202) 662-1035
Fax: (202) 662-1032
Email: hmcmahon@staff.abanet.org