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Highlight on Faculty

The Master of Arts in Government program is fortunate to have the minds and skills of many of Washington's political leaders teaching in its program. Faculty include lawyers, policy makers, advisors, consultants, and reporters, as well as full-time Johns Hopkins faculty members. Working from the inside and outside of our American government, these instructors prepare students with information and techniques critical to success in our complex political environment.

Program Chair

Benjamin Ginsberg, Ph.D., is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Government Program of Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous books on American government and politics including: Downsizing Democracy, The Fatal Embrace; Embattled Democracy; Democrats Return to Power; Politics by Other Means, The Captive Public; Do Elections Matter?; American Government: Freedom and Power; The Consequences of Consent; and Poliscide. Most recently, Ginsberg has authored The American Lie: Government by the People and other Political Fables, and co-authored Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced. The textbook he co-authors with Theodore J. Lowi is the most widely used American government textbook in the country.

Associate Program Chairs

Ariel Roth, Ph.D., is the Associate Program Chair for the MA in Global Security Studies degree and the Associate Director of the graduate Certificate Program in National Securities Studies. A veteran of the Israeli military and a graduate of the Hebrew University, Dr. Roth earned his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University in international relations. Dr. Roth's specialties include strategic studies and international relations theory and he regularly teaches courses in Military Strategy and Modern War for the Government program at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Roth's has published in both professional academic journals as well as providing occasional commentary on foreign policy and security related topics for both national and international newspapers.
Kathryn Wagner, Ph.D., is Senior Associate Chair for the MA in Government and the MA in Global Security Studies programs. She teaches courses in public policymaking, environmental policy, and research methods. She also developed with Daniel Guttman a semester long seminar/videoconference course with Fudan University in Shanghai, which may have been the first of its kind to directly connect in real time American and Chinese graduate students in joint sessions. Prior to joining Hopkins, she taught at Swarthmore College and was previously a Congressional Fellow in the Office of Technology Assessment and later a policy analyst and project director there. She was the lead editor and contributor of Environmental Management in Healthcare Facilities and is the author of several articles on environmental policy making. Dr. Hill received her BA with high honors from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
Dorothea Wolfson, Ph.D.,is the Associate Program Chair and Thesis Advisor for the Government Program at Johns Hopkins University. She has been teaching in the program since 1995 and currently teaches courses in the areas of American political thought, political theory, and writing and research methods. Her research and teaching interests center on American political thought, modern political thought, and family policy, and she has published articles on Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, and John Locke and children's literature. She has collaborated on a book, Our Sacred Honor, with William J. Bennett, and her essays and reviews have appeared in The Claremont Review of Books, The American Interest, and Perspectives on Political Science. Before joining the Johns Hopkins program, she was a Policy Analyst at Empower America, and she holds a BA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.

Program Coordinators

Alexander Rosenthal , Ph.D., is currently program coordinator for Advanced Academic Programs in Government where he also teaches a number of courses on political theory. He received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton University in 1994. In 2001 he completed his master’s degree in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where he went on to complete his doctorate in 2005 working under the Center for Ethics, Social, and Political Philosophy within the Higher Institute of Philosophy. His recently published book Crown Under Law deals with the intellectual origins of modern constitutionalism focusing on John Locke and Richard Hooker. Before joining Johns Hopkins, he taught at a number of colleges and universities including Leuven, Loyola College(Maryland), and Catholic University of America(CUA). Topics of research interest include the European philosophical tradition, (Greek/medieval/early modern), Liberal democracy and its ideological critics, and the interaction of religion and American political culture.

Faculty Members

Peter Black has been teaching management, criminal justice, public administration, and critical incident management for twenty-seven years. He is a Supervisory Special Agent and has been involved in federal law enforcement for more than thirty-seven years. Over the past seventeen years he has served as the Inquiry Director or Special Agent-in-Charge for ten major investigative task forces; among them: lead Special Agent of an Inquiry conducted at the direction of the President's Foreign Intelligence Oversight Advisory Board into allegations that US Intelligence was involved in the torture and killing of Americans in Guatemala; Inquiry Director for an investigation into the destruction of the ammunition dump at Khamisiyah, Iraq, and Team Leader of a forty person team conducting search and rescue operations in the wake of the bombing of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Previously, he worked undercover narcotics and weapons for about four years and was the Special Agent-in-Charge of the US Forces-Korea Hostage Negotiation and SWAT teams during the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Francis Blackwelder, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Friends of the Earth and has served as an environmental advocate for over 40 years. Blackwelder initiated campaigns to reform the World Bank and succeeded in getting Congress to enact a series of significant reforms directing the Bank and other multilateral lending institutions to pay more attention to the environment. He serves on the board of directors of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and 20/20 Vision. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and received an MA in Mathematics from Yale, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Maryland.
Richard Broughton is a lawyer in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advises senior Department leaders and federal prosecutors on legal and constitutional issues related to federal criminal law and capital punishment. He also assists government lawyers in preparing capital cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and has represented the United States in appellate and post-conviction capital litigation. Previously, he served on the law school faculties at Stetson University and Texas Wesleyan University, teaching in the areas of Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure. Before becoming a law professor, he served as Assistant Attorney General of Texas and clerked for the chief judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. His scholarship focuses on constitutional law, presidential powers, and criminal justice, and has been published in law reviews and journals across the country.
William Clinger represented Pennsylvania's Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1978 to 1996. He was Chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Vice Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Chairman of the House Wednesday Group. Prior to his congressional service, Mr. Clinger was the Chief Counsel to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration.
Brett Decker is Senior Vice President for the Office of Communications at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The office encompasses the Bank's public affairs, external affairs and marketing divisions. Previously, he was based in Hong Kong as an editor and editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal . He has held positions on the Editorial Board of the Washington Times, as national political reporter for the Evans & Novak Inside Report and television producer for the cable program Insights with Robert Novak. Decker served as a speechwriter to Majority Whip (later Majority Leader) Tom DeLay in the U.S. House of Representatives. A former Governor of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club, Decker has written hundreds of articles for publications such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Far Eastern Economic Review, and International Economy. A native of Michigan, Decker has a bachelor's degree in political science from Albion College, a master's in government from Johns Hopkins University, and a master's in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He is an adjunct Professor of Government at Johns Hopkins.
Alvin Felzenberg, Ph.D., was the principal spokesman for the 9/11 Commission. He served in two presidential administrations, held several high level staff positions at the U.S. House of Representatives and served as New Jersey's Assistant Secretary of State. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Dr. Felzenberg has been a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Garwood Visiting Professor in Politics at Princeton University.
Daniel Guttman, J.D., is a Washington DC attorney whose practice areas include public management and privatization, utility restructuring, False Claims Act, civil rights, environment, safety and health litigation and regulation. He was a Commissioner of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, was the Executive Director of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and special counsel to Senator David Pryor. He is the co-author of Shadow Government and many articles, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He recently was in China on a Fulbright Fellowship, and is currently a Visiting Professor/Scholar at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Public Management, Shanghai Jia Tong University School of Law, and the Peking University School fo Law. Professor Guttman was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award for Government in 2004.
Robert Guttman is the Founder and Director of the Center on Politics & Foreign Relations (CPFR) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He teaches courses on politics, the media and foreign policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Government. He currently also writes a regular column on politics for The Huffington Post. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of TransAtlantic: Europe, America & the World, at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, and also editor -in-chief of Europe Magazine. He is the author/editor of the book Europe in the New Century: Visions of an Emerging Superpower published in 2001. Guttman has been a frequent guest on various radio and TV talk programs, including CNN, CNN International and C-SPAN.
Robert Haffa, Ph.D., is the Director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center, having joined Northrop after retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Colonel. His Air Force career included operational tours in the F-4 aircraft in Vietnam, the United Kingdom and Korea, teaching political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and strategic planning for the Air Staff in the Pentagon. Since joining Northrop Grumman, Dr. Haffa’s work has included analyses of U.S. military strategy, force planning, programming, and wargaming for the business sectors of the company, as well as the development of corporate strategic planning scenarios. Dr. Haffa holds a BS in international affairs from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an MA in government from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on American defense policy.
Nancy Hall, MBA, has been providing financial and administrative services to the nonprofit sector for over two decades. Nancy recently retired after eighteen years from the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organization where she held various positions including Director of Finance, Marketing, and Member Services. She is currently consulting to a number of select nonprofits assisting in taking the organizations to the next level. In addition, she works with for-profit organizations assisting them in ways to effectively market to the nonprofit sector. She has been teaching at Johns Hopkins for the past eight years. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Thomas Hannon was Political Director for the CNN News Group and led the network’s reporting on national politics from 1988 through 2006. He planned and directed CNN’s coverage of presidential primaries, debates, national conventions, general election campaigns and election nights. He was executive producer of Inside Politics and produced over 30 nationally televised presidential debates. He started the CNN-USA Today-Gallup Poll and worked with most major polling organizations. Hannon was Executive News Producer, Washington, DC for CNN from 1984 to 1988 and Senior Producer, CNN Washington, 1981 to 1984. Before joining CNN, he worked as a radio and TV news reporter, anchor, producer and assignment editor in small and major markets.
Douglas Harris Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola College. His work focuses on Congress, media politics, political parties and public policy. His publications include articles on legislative, presidential, and party politics in Political Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Congress & the Presidency, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Extension of Remarks, and American Politics Research. He has contributed chapters in edited collections on congressional elections and public trust in government.
Lisa Jaeger J.D., is a partner in the Government Relations, Advocacy and Strategy section of the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani. Her practice focuses on environmental and natural resources law and policy. Previously, she was acting general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and prior to that was deputy general counsel ther
Jack Kangas, Ph.D., is a former strategic planner and arms control negotiator with the Pentagon and State Department. His current teaching and research interests are focused on the proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism, and U.S. security policy in the Middle East, with specific reference to Turkey. His advanced degrees are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS in Economics and Social Science) and Stanford University (Ph.D. in Political Science)
John Kornacki is a faculty member of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University and a contributing write for the congressional newspaper, The Hill. He was the first staff director of the Legislative Resource Center for the U.S. House of Representatives and served as executive director for the nonpartisan, Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center in Illinois.
Mark Lowenthal, Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert on intelligence, is President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC, a national security education, training and consulting company. From 2002-2005, Dr. Lowenthal served as the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and also as the Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. Prior to these duties, he served as Counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Lowenthal has written five books and over 90 articles or studies, including Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (Congressional Quarterly Press, 3rd ed., October 2005), which has become the standard college and graduate school textbook on the subject. He has also written a fantasy novel. Dr. Lowenthal received his BA from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and was awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Intelligence Community’s highest award. In 1988, Dr. Lowenthal was the Grand Champion on Jeopardy!, the television quiz show.
Glenn Marcus served 13 years at the National Endowment for the Humanities and at PBS for 12 years, where his portfolio included series such as THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, NOVA, and countless other primetime shows. Among many special assignments, he coordinated national programming for the 50th anniversaries of WWII and the Korean War, plus efforts on Vietnam and the Holocaust. He is the only national PBS staff member ever to receive the Knight Journalism Fellowship. He now consults on a variety of media projects, and has taught graduate seminars on the history of the documentary, war of the screen, and the history of Washington, DC. His films in progress are WASHINGTON, DC: SYMBOL AND CITY, and HALLOWED GROUND, on the 24 US military cemeteries overseas. He earned his BA in History from Johns Hopkins University.
Ken Masugi, Ph.D., has been a speechwriter for two Cabinet members and for Clarence Thomas, when he was Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He is co-author, editor, or co-editor of seven books on American politics. While directing programs at the Claremont Institute, he also served as editor of its quarterly Claremont Review of Books in its early years. He is on the editorial board of two political science journals. He has taught at several universities, including the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor; James Madison College of Michigan State University; the Ashbrook Center of Ashland University; and Princeton University. He is currently writing a book on the Declaration of Independence and multiculturalism.
Gwendolyn Mink,Ph.D., has been teaching U.S. equality law, poverty policy, gender issues, and American politics for twenty nine years. She was on the faculty of the University of California-Santa Cruz from 1980-2001 and at Smith College from 2001 to 2009. She is author of Welfare's End (1998; rev. ed. 2002), a Choice magazine “Outstanding Academic Book”; Hostile Environment (2000); The Wages of Motherhood (1995), which won the 1996 Victoria Schuck Book Award of the American Political Science Association; and Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development (1986). She is editor of Whose Welfare? (1999); co-editor (with Wilma Mankiller, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith and Gloria Steinem) of The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women's History (1998); co-editor (with Rickie Solinger) of Welfare: A Documentary History of Policy and Politics (2003); and co-editor (with Alice O’Connor) of Poverty: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (2 volumes,2004). She is now an independent scholar based in Washington, DC.
Charlene Mollison is a global consultant and university teacher with over 30 years of experience leading, managing and advising nonprofit organizations and teaching on the subject for twelve years. She has held senior positions at the Council on Foundations, a membership association of grantmakers, and at Independent Sector, a national coalition of nonprofits and philanthropies. She was Executive Director for nine years at WEAL, where she developed the team of volunteers and staff and garnered the financial support that resulted in several new laws relating to women’s legal and economic advancement in education and employment, including blue collar jobs and the military. As a consultant, she has advised staff executives and boards of many nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and abroad, including Eastern and Central Europe, China and Bangladesh. She holds a masters degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar.
Susan Morris, PhD, received her BA degree in Economics (with Honors) from Columbia University and her MA and Ph.D. degrees in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Johns Hopkins. She has several years' experience in the fields of publishing, economic research, the marketing of consumer and industrial products, and as an entrepreneur. She has also been an advisor and consulting editor in producing science documentaries for public broadcasting. Her published work examines how 19th-century scientists crafted their scientific writing to persuade and appeal to a lay public. Her current research includes scientific communication, entrepreneurship in science, and the history of communications technology. She teaches Introduction to Graduate Work and Publishing: Print to Digital.
Willamson Murray is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defense Analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of History from Ohio State University and has taught at a number of other institutions including the Air War College, the United States Military Academy, the Naval War College, and the U.S. Naval Academy. His recent books include: A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War; The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050; and The Iraq War, A Military History.
Douglas Nelson, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of CropLife America the not-for-profit trade organization representing the major manufacturers, formulators and distributors of crop protection and pest control products, including bioengineered products with crop production and protection characteristics. Mr. Nelson is also President of CropLife Foundation, a 501(c) (3) research and educational foundation. Mr. Nelson has recently been appointed a member of the United States Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights charged with advising the U.S. Trade Representative and the Secretary of Commerce on intellectual property rights aspects of U.S. Trade Policy. A Phi Beta Kappa and Summa cum laude graduate in history from Rutgers University, Mr. Nelson earned MA and Ph.D. degrees in modern European history from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law.
James Norton is Director of Government Relations at General Dynamics, Inc. where he is responsible for formulating and implementing Homeland Security business strategies on behalf of General Dynamics. Mr. Norton formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to being appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary, Mr. Norton was Director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and DHS Management Directorate for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. Before joining Homeland Security, Mr. Norton was Special Assistant to Governor Christine Todd Whitman in the Office of United States Environmental Protection Administrator (USEPA).
Michael O'Hanlon, Ph.D., is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security and American foreign policy. He is also the director of the Brookings-ABC Opportunity 08 project. He is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest books are Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security (with Kurt Campbell and A War Like No Other, about the U.S.-China relationship and the Taiwan issue, with Richard Bush.
Edward Perlman began his professional teaching career in the Alexandria City Schools, where he instructed in English and humanities and was principal for the European campus of a summer school program. He writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and is now the Writing Program's faculty advisor for poetry students. His poetry, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various reviews and publications including Explorations, Passages Northwest, The Sewanee Theological Review, and The Living Church. He is a contributing author to Alexandria, a Town in Transition 1800-1900 (Alexandria Historical Society). The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the NEA awarded him an artist fellowship grant for 2006 for his poetry. He lives in Washington, D.C. He was one of the first winners of the Writing Program's Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.
John Samples, Ph.D., directs the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute. He has written articles on election reform, direct democracy, campaign finance regulation, and the role of religion in James Madison's political theory. He is currently editing a collection of papers on James Madison's legacy for limited government and American liberalism. He was previously the Director of the Georgetown University Press and before that was Vice President of The Twentieth Century Fund.
David Satter, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and is also a visiting scholar of the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, a senior fellow of the Jamestown Foundation, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He specialies in the Soviet Union and Russia in the post communist era. He is the author of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996; in paperback, Yale Press, 2001) and Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State (Yale Press, 2003). He has contributed articles and commentary pieces to numerous magazines and newspapers, including Wall Street Journal editorial page, Encounter, Los Angeles Times, National Interest, National Review, New Republic, New York Review of Books, Reader's Digest, and Washington Times. Previously, he was the Moscow correspondent for the London Financial Times. After completing his term in Moscow, Satter was a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal.
Kevin Scott, Ph.D., is a Social Science Analyst for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, where he specializes in caseload forecasting and research on bankruptcy. He received his doctorate in Political Science from Ohio State University, and was previously an assistant professor of political science at Texas Tech University and an analyst for the Congressional Research Service. His research has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including Political Research Quarterly, Law and Society Review, Judicature, and the Virginia Law Review. His research focuses on the decision-making of appellate judges in the federal court system.
Andrew Selee, Ph.D., is Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute, which promotes research and dialogue on U.S.-Mexico relations. His edited and co-edited volumes include Mexico's Politics and Society in Transition; Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective; Perceptions and Misconceptions in U.S.-Mexico Relations; and Invisble No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States. He is a contributing editor to the Library of Congress's Handbook of Latin American Studies and former professional staff in the U.S. House of Representative
Adam Sheingate, Ph.D., is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include American political development, interest groups, and comparative public policy. He is the author of The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan.
Robert Shogan was the national political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau for 30 years. His books include: Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President; The Double-Edged Sword: How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, from Washington to Clinton; Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law and Changed the American Presidency; and Riddle of Power: Presidential Leadership from Truman to Bush. His most recent book, The Battle of Blair Mountain, was cited a one of the "notable books of the year" in 2004 by the Christian Science Monitor.
Michael Siegel, Ph.D, is a Senior Training Specialist at the Federal Judicial Center where he managed an award-winning leadership development program for federal probation and pretrial service officers. He specializes in areas of change management, negotiation and conflict management skills, presentation skills, automation management, and leadership development. He was formerly the Assistant Dean of Faculty Development at the University of Maryland at College Park. Professor Siegel was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award for Government in 2005.
Thomas Stanton, J.D., is a Washington DC attorney who focuses on public institutions and their capacity to deliver services effectively. He specializes in federal credit and benefits programs, design of government organizations and regulatory oversight. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), past Chair of the NAPA Standing Panel on Executive Organization and Management, and a former member of the federal Senior Executive Service. His writings on public administration include articles in Public Administration Review, The Administrative Law Journal, American Banker, and The Wall Street Journal. He is coeditor with Benjamin Ginsberg of Making Government Manageable: Executive Organization and Management in the 21st Century, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Michael Uhart is currently Executive Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Science Advisory Board and Executive Director of the Office of Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes of the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). He has been a NOAA employee since 1976, spending the first 19 years of his career in the National Weather Service before taking his current positions. He is also director of the multi-agency National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program where he coordinates federal acid rain monitoring, research, and integrated assessments of the acid rain control provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and reports the results to Congress.
Paul Weinstein is chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute where he writes and speaks on an array of policy areas including pension and tax reform, budget and transportation policy, corporate responsibility, and political reform. He is also chief analyst at the Promontory Interfinancial Network, a financial services firm. Previously, he served as the chief of staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as senior advisor to the Vice President for policy planning in the Clinton-Gore Administration. He is the author of the textbook, The Art of Policy Making.
Margaret Williams, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC. Her work focuses on judicial selection, women's representation, and methodology. Her work has appeared in Politics & Gender, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Justice System Journal, and Judicature. She earned received her doctorate in Political Science from Ohio State University in 2004.
Mary Ellen Williams, J.D., serves as a judge at the United States Court of Federal Claims. Judge Williams has been selected as one of the 500 leading judges in America by Lawdragon magazine. She has resolved cases involving monetary claims founded upon the Constitution, federal statutes, regulations, or contracts with the United States, including bid protest, tax, Fifth Amendment takings, civilian and military pay, intellectual property, and Indian tribe claims.
Adam Wolfson is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a consulting editor for Commentary. Previously, he was the Executive Editor of Public Interest. He was a consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics. He has published numerous articles and co-edited The Liberal Tradition in Focus.
D. Worley is a visiting professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His professional career includes assignments at the Rand Corporation’s Strategy Assessment Center, National Security Research Division, and Army Research Division as well as assignments at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Joint Advanced Warfighting Program and the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities at Quantico. He holds a BA with major in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley, an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, an Engineer degree and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, an MA in government from Johns Hopkins University, an MA in national security studies from Georgetown University, and completed the National and International Security Studies Program for Senior Executives at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Worley has authored books on military force structure and on the national security system and numerous articles on national security strategy, the National Security Council, and American defense policy. He served one tour of duty in Vietnam while serving in the United States Marine Corps.