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.  Member, ABA House of Delegates.

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., Deputy Department Head, Department of Law, U.S. Air Force Academy and former U.S. Air Force, Staff Judge Advocate.
 
James E. McPherson, Executive Director, National Association of Attorneys General and Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.) and former General Counsel, Counterintelligence Field Activity and former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy.

Judith A. Miller, General Counsel, Bechtel Group, Inc. and former General Counsel, Department of Defense.

Vincent Polley, Principal, Know-Connect, LLLP and former practicing attorney, Detroit, MI, focusing on cyberspace law.

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

Jonathan R. Scharfen, Deputy Director, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, former Chief Counsel, House International Relations Committee and former Deputy Legal Adviser, National Security Council. Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)

Scott Silliman, Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security and Professor of the Practice of Law Duke University  School of Law, former Air Force Judge Advocate. 

Michael Smith, Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, former Counsel, Congressional Joint 9/11 Inquiry Committee and former Chief, Office of Middle East and North Africa, National Security Agency.

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

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

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 and former Deputy General Counsel, National Security, FBI and former Chief, Intelligence Issues Group, National Security Branch.

Angeline G. Chen, Associate General Counsel, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University Law School and former Assistant General Counsel, National Security Agency.

M. Joe Crosthwait, Jr., Partner, The Crosthwait Law Firm, Midwest City, OK and President, National Council of State and Local Bar Presidents.  

Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Partner, Monument Policy Group, LLC and former Director and General Counsel, House Committee on Homeland Security. Former Senior Counsel, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Department of Justice.

Deah Tonya Hagmaier, Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Commandant, Judge Advocate General’s School.

Peter Raven-Hansen, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and co-author of the casebooks, National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law, as well as National Security Law and the Power of the Purse, First Use of Nuclear Weapons, and various articles on national security law.

Thomas L. Hemingway, Brig. General and Senior Advisor, Office of the Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce and former Legal Adviser to the Appointing Authority, Office of Military Commissions, Department of Defense.

Caroline Krass, Counsel, National Security Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and former 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 Ann 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, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law.

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

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

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

Deborah Pearlstein, Associate Research Scholar, Law and Public Affairs Program, Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Harvey Rishikof, Professor, National Security Law, National War College, and former Legal Counsel to the Deputy Director of the FBI.  Former Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, where he served as chief of staff and liaison to the Executive Branch, Congress, the Federal Judicial Center and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Court.

Nicholas Rostow, University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, The State University of New York.  Former General Counsel to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.  Former Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former Legal Adviser, National Security Council.

Cynthia Ryan, General Counsel, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Networks and Information Integration, United States Department of Defense

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 the American member of the U.N. 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.

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. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Dean, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and former General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency and General Counsel, National Security Agency, and former Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State.
7. William H. Webster, former Federal Judge and Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of Central Intelligence.
8. R. James Woolsey, Booz Allen Hamilton and former Director of Central Intelligence.

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