Chair: 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. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute.

James E. Baker, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and former Special Assistant to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council.

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

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, U.S. Department of Justice.

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, U.S. Department of Defense.

Jill Rhodes, legal officer, Office of Civil Liberties and Privacy, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and former Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Education and Training, Integration, and Collaboration, ODNI.

Jonathan R. Scharfen, Vice President, International Operations, Technical Services Sector, Northrop Grumman Corporation and former Acting Director, Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 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.

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 and is the American member of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva.

Special Advisor:Suzanne E. Spaulding, Principal, Bingham Consulting Group, LLP and former 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.

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.

Stewart A. Baker, currently in private practice and former 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.    

Joel F. Brenner, served as the National Counterintelligence Executive and Mission Manager for Counterintelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  Prior, he served as the Inspector General for the National Security Agency.

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

Robert M. Chesney, Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin and served on the Detainee Policy Task Force through the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law and Policy, an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Law Institute.

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

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.

I. Michael Greenberger, Professor of Law, University of Maryland and Director, Center for Health and Homeland Security.

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

Caroline Krass, Associate Counsel, Office of White House Counsel and former 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.

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

Carrie Newton Lyons, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law.

Wyndee Parker, National Security Adviser to the House Speaker and former 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.

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.

Paul Rosenzweig, Private practice with Red Branch Law & Consulting PLLC. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and later Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He also serves as a Senior Editor of the Journal of National Security Law and is a coauthor of the book “Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom.”

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, U.S. Department of Defense.

John H. Shenefield, Counsel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and former Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice.

Corin R. Stone, Deputy General Counsel, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and former attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Jane E. Stromseth, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Foreign Service.

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

Special Advisor: Spike Bowman, Visiting Scholar, University of Virginia School of Law and former Deputy Director, Office of National Counterintelligence Executive and former Deputy General Counsel, National Security, FBI and Chief, Intelligence Issues Group, National Security Branch.

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

Contact Information:
Holly McMahon, Staff Director
740 15^th Street, NW, 9^th Floor
Washington, DC 20005-1022
Phone: 202/662-1035
Fax: 202/662-1032
Email: hmcmahon@staff.abanet.org