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

Trevor Potter

President

Paul Klingenstein

Board Chair and Founder and Managing Partner at Aberdare Ventures

Jessica Amunson

Partner at Jenner & Block

Neil Eggleston

Partner at Kirkland & Ellis

Chai Feldblum

Former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Faith Gay

Founding Partner at Selendy Gay

Stuart Gerson

Former Acting Attorney General of the United States and Member of Epstein Becker Green Law Firm

Deborah Hellman

Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law

David Hiller

Former President of the McCormick Foundation and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times

Thurgood Marshall, Jr.

Government Affairs Consultant

Beverly Martin

Former Judge of US Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit

Martha Minow

300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University and Former Dean of Harvard Law School

Spencer Overton

Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law Founder and Faculty Director, Multiracial Democracy Project GW Law School

Thomas Sanchez

Co-Founder/CEO, Social Driver

Theodore M. Shaw

Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Paul M. Smith

Senior Advisor for CLC and Visiting Professor, Georgetown Law

Peter Staple

Former CEO of Corium, Inc. and Executive VP and General Counsel of ALZA Corporation

Paul Watford

Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Advisors to the Board

Patrick Geddes

Advisor to the Board Audit & Financial Compliance Committee

John Sachs

Advisor to the Board Audit & Financial Compliance Committee

We honor the invaluable contributions to Campaign Legal Center of our former trustees listed below and thank them for their service to the organization and to democracy.

Guy-Uriel Charles • Anthony Corrado (Founding Board Member) • Randy Dryer • Charles Fried • Heather Gerken • Kirk Jowers • Pamela Karlan • Charles Kolb • Tom Mann (Founding Board Member) • Norm Ornstein • Clay Mulford • Congressman Chris Shays • Ambassador Robert Stuart • Scott Thomas • Martina Vandenberg • Senator Tim Wirth • Roger Witten