Current Members
Lynne Cheney
Former Director, National Endowment for the Humanities
Richard Dreyfuss
Actor and founder of www.thedreyfussinitiative.org
Lee H. Hamilton
President and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Hamilton served for 34 years in Congress.
Prof. A. E. Dick Howard
University of Virginia School of Law; internationally recognized expert in constitutional jurisprudence
Dr. Ralph Ketcham
Syracuse University (emeritus); noted founding era historian and author of the definitive biography of James Madison
Jon Meacham
Executive editor and executive vice president at Random House; former editor of Newsweek, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jack Rakove
Stanford University; Pulitzer Prize-winning author, noted for his analysis and understanding of constitutional theory
Rod Smolla
President of Furman University; former dean, Washington and Lee School of Law
Strobe Talbott
President of the Brookings Institution; former deputy secretary of state in the Clinton Administration
George F. Will
Syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Roger Wilkins
George Mason University (emeritus); civil rights leader and former journalist with the Washington Post and The New York Times