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
Trevor Potter
President
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Norman Ornstein
Board Chair and Resident Scholar at American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy Research
Guy Uriel Charles
Guy-Uriel Charles
Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Chai Feldblum
Chai Feldblum
Former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Charles Fried
Former U.S. Solicitor General and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Faith Gay
Faith Gay
Founding Partner at Selendy & Gay
Patrick Geddes
Patrick Geddes
Advisor to the Board and Member of the Board Audit & Financial Compliance Committee
Stuart Gerson
Stuart Gerson
Former Acting Attorney General of the United States and Member of Epstein Becker Green Law Firm
Deborah Hellman
Deborah Hellman
D. Lurton Massee Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
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Paul Klingenstein
Board Vice Chair and Founder and Managing Partner at Aberdare Ventures
Thurgood Marshall Jr.
Thurgood Marshall, Jr.
Government Affairs Consultant
Martha Minow
Martha Minow
300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University and Former Dean of Harvard Law School
Ted Shaw
Theodore M. Shaw
Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director for the Center for Civil Rights
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Peter Staple
Former President and CEO of Corium and BioSeek
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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
Donald Ayer
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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Dan Ortiz
Professor of Law and Director of Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at University of Virginia Law School
Brad Phillips
Brad Phillips
Partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Paul Smith
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