Meet CLC's Trustees & Advisors

We are thankful to our board of trustees for their guidance and support, and their commitment to democracy reform. 

We are also grateful to our Litigation Strategy Council,  a team of renowned, experienced Supreme Court litigators. The Council provides an invaluable forum for exploring legal issues and providing constitutional insights concerning money-in-politics issues. It includes four former Solicitors General of the United States.

Board of Trustees
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Trevor Potter
President
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Norman Ornstein
Board Chair and Resident Scholar at American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy Research
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Guy-Uriel Charles
Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law at Duke Law School and Co-Director of Duke Center on Law, Race and Politics
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Anthony Corrado
Professor of Government at Colby College
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Charles Fried
Former U.S. Solicitor General and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Deborah Hellman
Deborah Hellman
D. Lurton Massee Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
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Pamela S. Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
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Paul Klingenstein
Founder and Managing Partner at Aberdare Ventures
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Thurgood Marshall, Jr.
Partner, Morgan Lewis
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Clay Mulford
Outside Counsel, National Science and Math Initiative, Inc.
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Martina E. Vandenberg
Founder and President at the Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center
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Roger Witten
Senior Counsel, WilmerHale
Litigation Strategy Council
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Debo Adegbile
Partner at WilmerHale
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Jessie Amunson
Partner at Jenner & Block
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Donald Ayer
Senior Advisor
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Catherine Carroll
Partner at WilmerHale
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Walter Dellinger
Former U.S. Solicitor General and Professor of Law at Duke University
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Charles Fried
Former U.S. Solicitor General and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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Sam Hirsch
Partner at Jenner & Block
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Dale Ho
Director, ACLU Voting Rights Project
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Pamela S. Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
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Dan Ortiz
Professor of Law and Director of Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at University of Virginia Law School
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Paul M. Smith
Vice President, Litigation & Strategy
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School
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Donald Verrilli
Former U.S. Solicitor General and Partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson
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Seth Waxman
Former U.S. Solicitor General and Partner at WilmerHale