National Powers
Laura Bush, First Lady
Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor
Lynne Cheney, Second Lady
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice, US Supreme Court
Tina W. Jonas, under secretary of Defense and chief financial officer
Deborah Platt Majoras, chair, Federal Trade Commission
Harriet Miers, counsel to the President
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education
Frances Fragos Townsend, assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Ann M. Veneman, executive director, UNICEF
On the Hill
Hillary Rodham Clinton, US senator, New York
Susan Collins, US senator, Maine
Karen Haas, clerk, House of Representatives
Kay Bailey Hutchison, US senator, Texas, and vice chair of Senate Republican Conference
Susan McCue, chief of staff, Senate minority leader Harry Reid
Barbara Mikulski, US senator, Maryland
Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader
Deborah Pryce, chair, House Republican Conference
Emily J. Reynolds, secretary of the Senate
Local Leaders
Linda Cropp, chair, DC Council
Elizabeth M. Hewlett, chair, Prince George’s County Planning Board
Charlene Drew Jarvis, president, Southeastern University
Marie Johns, former CEO of Verizon and candidate for DC mayor
Eleanor Holmes Norton, delegate to Congress, District of Columbia
Mame Reiley, board chair, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
Ida G. Ruben, president pro tem, Maryland Senate
Christine Saum, director of urban design and plan review, National Capital Planning Commission
Mary Margaret Whipple, Virginia state senator
Legal Authorities
Jamie Gorelick, partner, WilmerHale
Ellen Segal Huvelle, US District Court for the District of Columbia
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, presiding judge, US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Maureen Mahoney, partner, Latham & Watkins
Victoria Radd Rollins, partner, Williams & Connolly
Marna Tucker, senior partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell
Beth Wilkinson, general counsel, Fannie Mae
Business, Labor, Lobbying
Anna Burger, chair, Change to Win labor coalition
Debbie Dingell, vice chair, General Motors Foundation
Nancy Dorn, vice president for corporate government relations, General Electric
Candace Duncan, Mid-Atlantic managing partner, KPMG
Margaret Renken Hudson, vice president for federal and international affairs, BP
Sheila Johnson, CEO, Salamander Hospitality; president, Washington Mystics
Deborah Kissire, Mid-Atlantic managing partner, Ernst & Young
Barbara Krumsiek, president and CEO, Calvert Group; president, Greater Washington Board of Trade
Charito Kruvant, president and CEO, Creative Associates International
Barbara Lang, president and CEO, DC Chamber of Commerce
Carol A. Melton, executive vice president, global public policy, Time Warner
Maritza Gomez Montiel, regional managing partner, Deloitte
Beverly L. Perry, senior vice president for government affairs and public policy, Pepco
Linda Rabbitt, CEO, Rand Construction
Sheila Tate, vice chair, Powell Tate
Juleanna Glover Weiss, lobbyist, the Ashcroft Group
Catherine West, president, US Card, Capital One Financial
Educators and Experts
Madeleine Albright, former secretary of State; founder, the Albright Group
Katherine “Shelley” Broderick, dean, David A. Clarke School of Law, University of the District of Columbia
Jessica Einhorn, dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Patricia McGuire, president, Trinity University
Charlene Nunley, president, Montgomery College
Advocates and Nonprofits
Nan Aron, founder and president, Alliance for Justice
Esther Coopersmith, former US ambassador to the UN and Democratic fundraiser
Terri L. Freeman, president, Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
Phyllis Greenberger, president and CEO, Society for Women’s Health Research
Nancy Keenan, president, NARAL Pro-Choice America
Janet Murguia, president, National Council of La Raza
Karen K. Narasaki, president and CEO, Asian American Justice Center
Alma Powell, board chair, America’s Promise—the Alliance for Youth
Catherine B. Reynolds, chair and CEO, Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation
Julie Rogers, president, Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation
Jan Verhage, executive director, Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital
Wendy Wright, president and CEO, Concerned Women for America
Health and Medicine
Patricia A. Grady, director, National Institute of Nursing Research
Karen Ignagni, president and CEO, America’s Health Insurance Plans
Marilyn Kawamura, president, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States
Story Landis, director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Mary Nell Lehnhard, senior vice president, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Elizabeth G. Nabel, director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Nora Volkow, director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Deborah Yancer, president, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Media
Maureen Dowd, columnist, New York Times
Kim Hume, bureau chief, Fox News
Gwen Ifill, moderator, Washington Week
Sandra Johnson, Washington bureau chief, Associated Press
Debra L. Lee, president and COO, Black Entertainment Television
Janet Leissner, vice president and bureau chief, CBS News
Judith McHale, president, Discovery Communications
Diane Rehm, host, The Diane Rehm Show
Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president and CEO, WETA-TV and WETA-FM
Robin Sproul, vice president and bureau chief, ABC News
Katharine Weymouth, vice president of newspaper advertising, Washington Post Company
Arts and Letters
Elizabeth Broun, director,Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sheila Burke, deputy secretary and COO, Smithsonian Institution
Susan Farr, executive director, Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at University of Maryland
Wilhelmina Holladay, founder and board chair, National Museum for Women in the Arts
Dorothy McSweeny, chair, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Sharon Patton, director, National Museum of African Art
Molly Smith, artistic director, Arena Stage
Olga Viso, director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Joy Zinoman, artistic and managing director, Studio Theatre
Sports
Susan O’Malley, president, Washington Sports & Entertainment
Deborah Yow, director of athletics, University of Maryland
