2007-2008 Board Members
BOARD MEMBERS
Martha W. Barnett, Executive Board Chair
Holland & Knight LLP
Martha Barnett is a partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP and serves as Chair of its Directors Committee. Ms. Barnett’s primary areas of practice are administrative and governmental law, public policy, and state and local taxation.
Ms. Barnett has extensive associations in the American Bar Association and the Florida Bar. She is a past president of the American Bar Association, a position she held from 2000 to 2001. She served three terms on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association since 1986. As a member of the Board of Governors, she served as chair of the Finance Committee and on the Executive Committee. Ms. Barnett served as Chair of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, the first woman to serve in this position, and served on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal.
As a member of the Florida Bar, Ms. Barnett has participated in the Legislative Committee, the Commission on Access to Justice and the Executive Council of the Public Interest Law Section. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Martindale-Hubbell.
Ms. Barnett is a recipient of Tulane University's Distinguished Alumna Award, the Newcomb College Outstanding Alumna Award, the Hillary Clinton Glass Cutter Award, the National Association of Public Interest Law Award, the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award by the National Association of Women Lawyers and the Medal of Honor Award from the Florida Bar Foundation. Ms. Barnett has spoken and lectured at countless events throughout the nation and is involved in numerous committees and associations within the State of Florida. She has also received several honorary degrees from universities across the country.
Ms. Barnett graduated from Newcomb College, Tulane University of Louisiana, with a B.A. cum laude in 1969, and from the University of Florida, with a J.D. cum laude in 1973. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Phi, was an editor of the University of Florida Law Review and is married to Richard R. Barnett, an architect. They have two children, Richard Rawls, Jr., and Sarah Walters.
David R. Andrews
David Andrews recently retired from PepsiCo, where he served as the Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary from February 2002 until January 2005. He was responsible for government affairs, legal matters, corporate board governance and the PepsiCo Foundation. With revenues of $27 billion, PepsiCo ranks as the world’s fourth largest food and beverage company. In addition to being the chief legal officer, Mr. Andrews provided guidance on public policy and government affairs issues and was also responsible for corporate governance. Mr. Andrews lead PepsiCo through a period of the greatest fundamental change in securities laws since the 1930’s. Today, corporate governance rating agencies such as ISS and GMI rank PepsiCo at or near the highest ratings for corporate governance. In a recent measurement of corporate performance of the 30 largest U.S. companies based on market capitalization, Forbes Magazine graded PepsiCo A+ on corporate governance, the only company among the 30 to receive this high grade.
Prior to joining PepsiCo, Mr. Andrews was a partner at the international law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where he began his law practice 32 years ago. Mr. Andrews served as Chairman of the firm from 1991 to 1994. Mr. Andrews was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in August 1997, as the 19th Legal Adviser (General Counsel) to the U.S. Department of State, a position he held until April 2000. At the request of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the President, Mr. Andrews then served as the Ambassador and Special Negotiator for Iran/U.S. Claims until January 2001.
Mr. Andrews received the highest civilian award of the State Department, the Distinguished Service Award, for his work in bringing about a resolution of the dispute between China and the United States over compensation for the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and for his lead role in establishing the Scottish Court that sat in the Netherlands to try the two Libyans accused of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland.
From 1976 to 1981, Mr. Andrews served as the Special Assistant for Policy and Legal Counsel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., and as the Principal Deputy General Counsel to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and is a member of the American Arbitration Association National Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators. Mr. Andrews is also a member of the American Law Institute and was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Environmental Law and the Governing Council of the ABA Section on International Law. Mr. Andrews serves on the advisory boards of a number of academic institutions including the Environmental and Natural Resources Advisory Council of Stanford Law School and the National Advisory Board of the Ecology Law Quarterly of Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Andrews serves on the Board of Directors of Union Bank of California, PG&E Corporation / Pacific Gas and Electric Company and on the Advisory Board of ChinaVest. He also serves as a trustee on the non-profit boards of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, the Asia Foundation, the American Arbitration Association, the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA-CEELI), the Practicing Law Institute and Carnegie Hall Corporate Leadership Committee.
He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and its School of Law. In 1974 Mr. Andrews was a visiting Fellow and Professor of Law at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.
Thomas B. Griffith
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Judge Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in June 2005. From August, 2000 until his appointment to the United States Court of Appeals, Judge Griffith was Assistant to the President and General Counsel of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
From 1995 through 1999, Judge Griffith was Senate Legal Counsel of the United States, the chief legal officer of the United States Senate. The Senate Legal counsel represents the Senate, its committees, Members, and officers in litigation relating to their constitutional powers and privileges, and advises Senate committees about their investigatory powers. Judge Griffith represented the institutional interests of the United States Senate in the impeachment trial of President Clinton, the Line Item Veto Act litigation, the Senate’s investigations into Whitewater, campaign finance, and China missile technology transfer matters.
From 1999-2000, Judge Griffith was General Counsel to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, a congressional commission created to study the interplay between tax policy and electronic commerce. In 2002-2003, Judge Griffith was a Commissioner of the United States Secretary of Education’s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which was charged with examining the role of Title IX in intercollegiate athletics.
Judge Griffith was engaged in the private practice of law from 1985 through 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was an associate at Robinson, Bradshaw and Hinson, and from 1989 through 1995 and again in 1999 and 2000 in Washington, DC, where he was first an associate and then a partner at Wiley, Rein and Fielding. In private practice, his primary areas of emphasis were commercial and corporate litigation. He graduated from Brigham Young University summa cum laude in 1978 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985 where he was an editor of the law review.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Associate Justice (Retired)
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 2006. She was nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice on July 7, 1981, and confirmed by the United States Senate on September 22, 1981. She then took the oath of office on September 25, 1981.
Prior to her position at the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice O’Connor was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Governor Bruce Babbitt and served from 1979 to 1981, after serving as elected judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Az., from 1975 to 1979.
Justice O’Connor has held several legislative positions. She was appointed as a state senator in 1969 and was subsequently re-elected to two two-year terms, serving in the Arizona State Senate from 1969 to 1975. As a member of the Arizona legislature, she served as Senate Majority Leader from 1972 to 1975 and Chairman of the State, County, and Municipal Affairs Committee in 1972 and 1973. She also served on the Legislative Council, the Probate Code Commission and the Arizona Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations.
Prior to taking office, Justice O’Connor served as Deputy County Attorney in San Mateo County, California, from 1952 to 1953. She was Civilian Attorney for Quartermaster Market Center in Frankfurt, Germany, from 1954 to 1957 and later moved to private practice of law in Maryvale, Arizona, from 1958 to 1960. She served as the Assistant Attorney General in Arizona from 1965 to 1969.
Justice O’Connor has been involved in a number of civic activities. She was president and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Heard Museum from 1968 to 1974 and 1976 to 1981, a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board from 1975 to 1981, a member of the Board of Stanford University, a member of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Maricopa County, the Arizona Academy, the Board of Junior Achievement in Arizona, and the Phoenix Historical Society.
Justice O’Connor is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Arizona, the State Bar of California, the Maricopa County Bar Association, the Arizona Judges' Association, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Arizona Women Lawyers' Association. Justice O’Connor earned her B.A., with great distinction, in 1950 and her LL.B. in 1952 from Stanford University. She is a member of the Order of the Coif, and worked on the Board of Editors of the Stanford Law Review.
Born March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas, she was married to John Jay O'Connor III in 1952. They have three sons, Scott, Brian and Jay.
Andrew Prozes
Director, Reed Elsevier plc
Global Chief Executive Officer, LexisNexis Group
REED ELSEVIER plc
Andrew Prozes serves on the Board of Directors of Reed Elsevier plc, and was appointed global chief executive officer of Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis Group in July, 2000. In this capacity, he has responsibility for all of Reed Elsevier’s information services and information based solutions to legal and business professionals on a global basis. LexisNexis Group products and services include the online legal, news and business information of LexisNexis, including its branded publishing companies, Butterworths, Tolley, Juris Classeur, Matthew Bender, Michie, Shepard’s, and Martindale-Hubbell.
Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, Mr. Prozes served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of West Group, a part of the Thomson Corporation. Before joining the Thomson Corporation, Mr. Prozes was group president for Southam Inc, Canada’s largest newspaper publishing company.
Mr. Prozes began his business career in the computing services industry in Canada. He founded and served as CEO of MFS Limited, which developed systems and services for the Canadian financial industry. By 1980, MFS (now part of IBM Canada) was the largest supplier of record-keeping services and software for the Canadian financial industry.
Mr. Prozes serves on the Board of Cott Corporation and the National Executive Service Corps. Mr. Prozes has also served on the Board of the Information Technology Association of Canada and the Canadian Newspaper Association, as well as holding the position of chairman of the Information Industry Association in Washington, D.C.
COUNSELORS
Talbot ("Sandy") D'Alemberte
The Florida State University
Talbot ("Sandy") D'Alemberte, President Emeritus of the Florida State University (FSU), served as President from January 1994 to January 2003 following shortly after his service as President of the American Bar Association. He is "of counsel" to Hunton & Williams.
From 1984 to 1989 D'Alemberte served as the fourth dean of the FSU College of Law. He represented Dade County in the Florida House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972, where he chaired several legislative committees including the Judiciary Committee that drafted and passed a major judicial reform constitutional amendment in 1972. During his legislative service he was recognized as the Outstanding First Term member (1967) and, in his last term, named Most Outstanding Member of the House (1972).
After leaving the Florida Legislature, he chaired the Florida Constitution Revision Commission in 1977-1978 and the Florida Commission on Ethics in 1974-75. During his active years of practice, he concentrated on media and public law work; his cases included the proceedings that led to the first rule allowing camera access to courtrooms, service as Chief Counsel in impeachment proceedings against three justices of the Florida Supreme Court, the first litigation involving the Copyright Act of 1976, the representation of the Florida House of Representatives in several constitutional cases, Chief Counsel for a U.S. Senate Banking Sub-committee investigating HUD, and pro bono counsel in four death penalty cases.
D'Alemberte was very much involved in the early days of the modern dispute resolution movement and he has served as a mediator, most notably in the water dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia. He has been active in the organized bar, serving as President of the American Bar Association (1991-92), President of the American Judicature Society (1982-84) and Chair of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar (1982-83). He chaired several ABA committees, including chair of the first dispute resolution committee and the first election reform committee.
Awards D'Alemberte has received include the 2001 Wickersham Award given by the Friends of the Law Library of Congress, the 1996 American Judicature Society's Justice Award for his efforts to improve the administration of justice in the United States, the 1996 National Council of Jewish Women's Hannah G. Soloman Award, the 1993 Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers "Perry Nichols" Award, the 1993 Florida Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers Annual Criminal Justice Award, the 1990 Jurisprudence Award from the Anti-Defamation League of South Florida, the 1987 Florida Bar Foundation medal of Honor, the 1986 National Sigma Delta Chi First Amendment Award, a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences "Emmy" in 1985 for his work I open government, particularly in the opening of court proceedings to electronic journalists, the 1984 Florida Civil Liberties Union "Nelson Poynter" Award, and the ABA Section of Legal Education Robert J. Kutak Award and the ABA World Order Under Law Award.
Born June 1, 1933, in Tallahassee, D'Alemberte was educated in public schools in Tallahassee and Chattahoochee, Florida. In 1955, he earned his Bachelor or Arts degree with honors in political science from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and also attended summer school at FSU and the University of Virginia. After service as a naval officer aboard a destroyer for three years, D'Alemberte studied on a Rotary Foundation fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1962, he received his juris doctor with honors from the University of Florida where he was named to the Order of the Coif, served as president of the student bar association, was captain of the moot court team, served as articles editor of the University of Florida Bar Review and received the J. Hillis Miller Award as the outstanding law graduate.
D'Alemberte has had long family connections with Florida State University. His grandfather attended the Seminary West of the Suwannee and his mother attended the Florida State College for Women, both predecessor institutions to the Florida State University. She attended summer music camp as a high school student and returned to attend summer school in 1954.
He is the father of two grown children, Gabrielle D'Alemberte Powell, a graduate of the University of Denver Law School, and Joshua Talbot D'Alemberte, a graduate of his father's alma mater, the University of the South, and a public school teacher in Homestead, Florida.
D'Alemberte is married to Patsy Palmer, former children's policy coordinator in Florida Governor Lawton Chiles' office. She has worked as a journalist, legislative aid, and White House staff member; she holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in journalism, a master's degree from the Harvard Divinity School and a master's degree in conflict resolution from Antioch University.
R. William Ide
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Bill Ide focuses his practice on ethics, corporate governance, special investigations, strategic interface with publics, and crisis management. Bill presently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AFC Enterprises, Inc., where he chairs the Governance Committee and serves on the Audit Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Albemarle Corporation, where he serves on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. He serves on the Audit and Governance Committees of the Clark Atlanta University Board of Trustees. He also serves on the Audit Committee of the EastWest Institute.
Bill served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Monsanto Corporation and sat on its management board. During this time, he served as Executive Advisor and Key Strategist to Monsanto's Chairman and CEO during a major shift in the corporate focus, business strategy and creation of new markets. Prior to his Monsanto service, he was a senior partner with the Atlanta-based law firm of Long Aldridge & Norman LLP, a predecessor firm to McKenna Long & Aldridge. He also has served as Senior Vice President and special counsel for E.F. Hutton and Prescott Ball & Turben. Furthermore, Bill served as a law clerk to Judge Griffin Bell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was President of the American Bar Association from 1993 to 1994, during which he was challenged to re-establish the organization as the spokesperson for the legal profession, to bolster relevance to members and to reverse any declining image of the legal profession with the public. Bill also undertook modernization of ABA business practices during his tenure as President. In addition, he was a founding executive committee and board of directors member of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. He was counselor to the United States Olympic Committee from 1998-2000. Bill also served on the executive committee of the board of directors of the American Arbitration Association. He was a member of the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility. He is Chair of the ABA Task Force on the Attorney Client Privilege. In addition, Bill currently serves as the Honorary Consul General of the Thai Embassy.
Max M. Kampelman
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Max M. Kampelman is currently Of Counsel at the Washington, D.C. branch of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. From 1985 to 1989, Ambassador Kampelman served as Counselor of the Department of State and Head Ambassador of the United States Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms in Geneva.
Ambassador Kampelman serves as Chairman Emeritus of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is involved with Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Freedom House. He also serves as Counselor of the American Bar Association Committee on Law and National Security.
Ambassador Kampelman has received numerous prestigious awards. On August 11, 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On January 18, 1989, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal. He has also been the recipient of the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Library of Congress "Living Legend" award.
Ambassador Kampelman was appointed by both President Jimmy Carter and President Reagan to serve as Ambassador and Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). He also served as Ambassador and Head of the U.S. Delegation to the CSCE Copenhagen Conference on the Human Dimension in June 1990, the CSCE Geneva Conference on National Minorities in July 1991 and the CSCE Moscow Conference on the Human Dimension in September 1991. Mr. Kampelman was a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations and served as Legislative Counsel to U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey. He was appointed Vice Chairman of the United States Institute of Peace, a position he held from 1992 to 2001. From 1989 to 1993, he was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United Nations Association, and he is now Honorary Chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation and Honorary Governor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Matthew McHugh served as Counselor to the President of the World Bank from 1993 until June of 2005. From 1975 to 1992, he represented the 27th and 28th Congressional Districts of New York. While in Congress, Mr. McHugh served on a number of committees and sub-committees, including the Appropriations Committee, under which he served on the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs and the Subcommittee on Rural Development Agriculture and Related Agencies. He also served on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the Agriculture Committee, the Interior Committee and the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Committee, which he chaired from 1982-84. One of his last Congressional duties was to preside over a special bipartisan panel set up to investigate the check writing scandal of the early 1990s.
Mr. McHugh started his post-House career as vice president and counsel at Cornell University. He worked there briefly before moving on to the World Bank. Mr. McHugh has been a member of many national and international boards and commissions, among them the National Endowment for Democracy, Bread for the World, International Crisis Group and the New York State Regents Commission on Higher Education. He has also published opinion columns in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor.
Mr. McHugh is a former Tompkins County District Attorney and Ithaca City prosecutor and was president-elect of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce.
He holds an undergraduate degree with highest honors from Mount St. Mary College in Emmitsburg, Maryland and a law degree from Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Judge Abner J. Mikva
University of Chicago Law School
Judge Mikva is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. He co-chairs a task force on Political Representation in Illinois with former Governor James Edgar. He also engages in arbitration and mediation work with JAMS, a national dispute resolution firm.
Judge Mikva served as White House Counsel from October, 1994 to November, 1995. He also served as judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District Of Columbia Circuit, a position to which he was appointed on September 27, 1979. He served as chief judge from January 1991 to September 1994. Before coming to the bench, Judge Mikva was elected to the U.S. Congress for five terms, representing portions of Chicago and its suburbs.
Congressman Mikva served on both the Judiciary and the Ways and Means Committees while in Congress. He began his political career in 1956 in the Illinois House of Representatives where he served five consecutive terms. While in the Illinois State legislature, he was Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and helped to enact a new criminal code and mental health code for Illinois. He was Chairman of the Illinois Board of Ethics and sponsored many ethics proposals in both the state legislature and Congress.
Judge Mikva began his career with a clerkship to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton. He then returned to Illinois where he entered a law practice and later became a partner of the late Justice Arthur Goldberg. He presented several constitutional cases to the U.S. Supreme Court and has taught courses in the legislative process at Northwestern University School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Georgetown Law School and the University of Chicago. He has also taught courses in legal Ethics at Duke University Law School.
The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, Judge Mikva was given the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award through the University of Illinois and the Alumni Medal of the University of Chicago. He was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Judge Mikva received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1951, graduating cum laude. He was the editor-in-chief of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif, the national legal honor society. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Judge Mikva's wife, Zoe, recently retired as Director of Development for a Washington think tank and does extensive volunteer work for the Chicago public schools. The Mikvas have three daughters (two lawyers and a rabbi) and seven grandchildren.
Homer E. Moyer, Jr.
Miller & Chevalier
Homer Moyer and Sandy D'Alemberte were the co-founders of CEELI. From 1990 to 2002, Mr. Moyer chaired CEELI's Executive Board and Advisory Board. The primary moving force behind the CEELI Institute in Prague, Mr. Moyer is president of the Friends of the CEELI Institute, and a member of the Institute board. He has also served as Chair (1990-91) of the ABA's Section of International Law and Practice, a member of its Council (1985-91), and Chair of its International Trade Committee (1984-86).
Mr. Moyer is a partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Miller & Chevalier and founder of its 40-lawyer International Department. Mr. Moyer's international practice spans international trade and trade policy; anti-corruption laws; the regulation of international business; international dispute resolution and litigation; and strategic business planning. He has represented clients before federal courts at all levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and before numerous international tribunals.
Before joining Miller & Chevalier, Mr. Moyer was General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce. A political appointee in both Democratic and Republican administrations, he also served as Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy General Counsel of the Department. Before government service, he practiced law for three years with Covington & Burling, wrote Justice and the Military, a treatise on military law, and spent three years in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy, with collateral duty at the White House.
A graduate of Emory University and Yale Law School, Mr. Moyer is a past President of the Washington Council of Lawyers, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of Export Controls as Instruments of Foreign Policy, (ILI 1985). He is also the author of the popular best-seller, The R.A.T. (Real-world Aptitude Test): Preparing Yourself for Leaving Home.
