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
Jessica Amunson
Jessica Amunson
Partner at Jenner & Block
Neil Eggleston
Neil Eggleston
Partner at Kirkland & Ellis
Chai Feldblum
Chai Feldblum
Former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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
Beverly Martin
Beverly Martin
Former Judge of US Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit
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 at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Peter Staple
Former CEO of Corium, Inc. and Executive VP and General Counsel of ALZA Corporation

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

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
Brad Phillips
Brad Phillips
Partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Paul Smith
Paul M. Smith
Senior Vice President
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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