William R. Burleigh, Chairman, is chairman of the E.W. Scripps Company, from which he retired as CEO in September 2000. His nearly fifty years of service to Scripps began when he covered high school sports for the Evansville (Ind.) Press. He is a director of Xtek, Inc., the International Board of Legatus, and the Hebrew Union College Ethics Center. Father Richard John Neuhaus, Vice Chairman, is president of the Institute on Religion and Public Life and editor-in-chief of First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life. Among the best known of his many books are Freedom for Ministry, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World, and with Rabbi Leon Klenicki, Believing Today: Jew and Christian in Conversation. Before becoming a Catholic priest he was a Lutheran clergyman, serving a low-income black parish in Brooklyn.
William P. Barr is executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon. Mr. Barr served as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush from 1991 to 1993. He is vice chairman of the board of directors of The College of William and Mary.
Kenneth W. Bickford is managing partner for Roseline Development, a New Orleans-based creator of traditional neighborhood developments. An active participant in civic affairs, he is a frequent speaker on technology and culture. He is an active supporter of faith-and-reason symposia, particularly at his alma mater, Louisiana State University.
Joseph D. (Nick) Decosimo is managing partner of the business consulting and accounting firm Decosimo. An active community leader in Chattanooga, he serves on numerous civic boards. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a University Fellow.
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, professor of politics, and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is the author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality and In Defense of Natural Law, and the editor of Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality and The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence and is a former Presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Amy A. Kass is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where she works on issues concerning philanthropy, civic education and American identity. In addition, she is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, where she has been an award-winning teacher of classic texts for more than thirty years. She is the author of numerous articles and the editor of four books: American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction, an anthology of American autobiographies; Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (with Leon R. Kass); The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose; and Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists.
Paul J. Klaassen is founder, chairman, and CEO of Sunrise Senior Living. In 1990 he founded the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA), the largest assisted living trade association, and served as its founding chairman. He serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. He is a member of the board of the National Chamber Foundation and Chairman of Trinity Forum, a faith-based non-profit think tank and leadership academy. He also serves on the advisory committee of the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard University Medical School.
Frank A. Orban, III, of the law firm of deKieffer & Horgan, has been engaged in international law and business since 1968. He was appointed by the Reagan Administration to serve as one of the American negotiators in the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Arms and Space Talks in Geneva. As a recognized expert on China, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, he has lectured and written extensively and has been an advisor to the U.S. and foreign governments on various foreign trade, investment and development issues.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick In Memoriam, 1926-2006
EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow 
