Conservative think tank founded in 1982.
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Spencer Abraham |
Politician |
12-Jun-1952 |
|
US Secretary of Energy, 2001-05 |
Samuel Alito |
Judge |
1-Apr-1950 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
John Ashcroft |
Politician |
9-May-1942 |
|
US Attorney General, 2001-05 |
Michael J. Astrue |
Government |
c. 1956 |
|
Social Security Commissioner |
Charles H. Bell, Jr. |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
Republican National Lawyers Association |
Bradford Berenson |
Attorney |
c. 1964 |
|
Partner, Sidley Austin |
Kenneth Blackwell |
Government |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
Ohio Secretary of State, 1999-2007 |
J. Caleb Boggs III |
Government |
c. 1962 |
|
Republican National Lawyers Association |
John Bolton |
Government |
20-Nov-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2005-06 |
Robert Bork |
Government |
1-Mar-1927 |
19-Dec-2012 |
Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
Mary Beth Buchanan |
Government |
25-Jul-1963 |
|
US Attorney, Western Pennsylvania |
Jay Bybee |
Judge |
27-Oct-1953 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Linda Chavez |
Activist |
17-Jun-1947 |
|
Neoconservative activist, pundit |
Edith Brown Clement |
Judge |
29-Apr-1948 |
|
5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Paul Clement |
Government |
24-Jun-1966 |
|
US Solicitor General, 2005-08 |
Holly Coors |
Activist |
25-Aug-1920 |
18-Jan-2009 |
Ultraconservative beer baroness |
Maura D. Corrigan |
Judge |
14-Jun-1948 |
|
Michigan Chief Justice, 2001-04 |
Ann Coulter |
Pundit |
8-Dec-1961 |
|
Rightwing bombthrower |
T. Kenneth Cribb |
Activist |
7-Aug-1948 |
|
Conservative activist |
William J. Danhof |
Attorney |
c. 1949 |
|
Miller, Canfield, Paddock, & Stone |
Richard DeVos |
Business |
4-Mar-1926 |
|
Co-Founder of Amway |
Viet Dinh |
Government |
22-Feb-1968 |
|
USA PATRIOT Act mastermind |
Becky Norton Dunlop |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Conservative activist |
John Engler |
Politician |
12-Oct-1948 |
|
Governor of Michigan, 1991-2003 |
Richard A. Epstein |
Scholar |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
Takings |
Erick Erickson |
Blogger |
3-Jun-1975 |
|
RedState.com managing editor |
Timothy Flanigan |
Government |
16-May-1953 |
|
Would-be Deputy US Attorney General |
David Frum |
Pundit |
30-Jun-1960 |
|
Coined "Axis of Evil" |
Cory Gardner |
Politician |
22-Aug-1974 |
|
US Senator from Colorado |
E. Duncan Getchell |
Attorney |
12-Oct-1949 |
|
McGuireWoods LLP |
Jack Goldsmith |
Government |
26-Sep-1962 |
|
The Terror Presidency |
C. Boyden Gray |
Government |
6-Feb-1943 |
|
Conservative activist, lobbyist |
Thomas B. Griffith |
Judge |
5-Jul-1954 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
Orrin Hatch |
Politician |
22-Mar-1934 |
|
US Senator from Utah |
Donald Hodel |
Government |
23-May-1935 |
|
Reagan's Secretary of Energy & Interior |
Christopher C. Horner |
Activist |
? |
|
Competitive Enterprise Institute |
Dennis G. Jacobs |
Judge |
28-Feb-1944 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
Brett M. Kavanaugh |
Judge |
12-Feb-1965 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
Peter D. Keisler |
Government |
13-Oct-1960 |
|
Co-Founder, Federalist Society |
William Kilberg |
Attorney |
12-Jun-1946 |
|
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
Michael S. Lee |
Politician |
4-Jun-1971 |
|
US Senator from Utah |
Robert A. Levy |
Activist |
c. 1939 |
|
Cato Institute |
David H. Martin |
Activist |
? |
|
Founder, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund |
Steve A. Matthews |
Attorney |
c. 1956 |
|
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd |
David McIntosh |
Politician |
8-Jun-1958 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1995-2001 |
David W. McKeague |
Judge |
5-Nov-1946 |
|
6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
John G. Medlin, Jr. |
Business |
23-Nov-1933 |
7-Jun-2012 |
CEO of Wachovia, 1977-93 |
Ed Meese |
Government |
2-Dec-1931 |
|
US Attorney General, 1985-88 |
Kimberly A. Moore |
Judge |
15-Jun-1968 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
Charles Murray |
Author |
1943 |
|
The Bell Curve |
David A. Norcross |
Activist |
30-Mar-1937 |
|
Republican National Lawyers Association |
Gale A. Norton |
Government |
11-Mar-1954 |
|
US Secretary of the Interior |
Barbara Olson |
TV Personality |
27-Dec-1955 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Conservative TV pundit |
Ted Olson |
Government |
11-Sep-1940 |
|
US Solicitor General, 2001-04 |
Duane A. Parde |
Activist |
13-Jun-1963 |
|
National Taxpayers Union |
Rachel Paulose |
Attorney |
12-Mar-1973 |
|
US Attorney for Minnesota |
Philip Perry |
Government |
1964 |
|
DHS General Counsel |
Sally C. Pipes |
Activist |
? |
|
Pacific Research Institute |
Alan Charles Raul |
Government |
9-Sep-1954 |
|
Sidley & Austin |
William Bradford Reynolds |
Government |
21-Jun-1942 |
|
Reagan administration |
John G. Roberts, Jr. |
Judge |
27-Jan-1955 |
|
US Chief Justice |
Antonin Scalia |
Judge |
11-Mar-1936 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
David Schizer |
Educator |
c. 1968 |
|
Dean of Columbia Law School |
Joseph E. Schmitz |
Government |
c. 1956 |
|
Pentagon Inspector General, 2002-05 |
Harold Frend See, Jr. |
Judge |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Justice, Alabama Supreme Court |
Laurence H. Silberman |
Judge |
12-Oct-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1975-77 |
Robert S. Smith |
Judge |
31-Aug-1944 |
|
Judge, NY Court of Appeals |
Ken Starr |
Government |
21-Jul-1946 |
|
Special Prosecutor, Clinton's impeachment |
Diane S. Sykes |
Judge |
23-Dec-1957 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Clifford W. Taylor |
Judge |
9-Nov-1942 |
|
Michigan Chief Justice |
Hugo Teufel III |
Government |
1961 |
|
DHS Chief Privacy Officer |
Timothy M. Tymkovich |
Judge |
2-Nov-1956 |
|
10th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Emmett Tyrrell |
Columnist |
1943 |
|
Publisher, The American Spectator |
Eugene Volokh |
Blogger |
29-Feb-1968 |
|
Volokh Conspiracy |
Hans von Spakovsky |
Government |
11-Mar-1959 |
|
FEC Commissioner |
Elizabeth A. Weaver |
Judge |
28-Mar-1941 |
21-Apr-2015 |
Justice, Michigan Supreme Court, 1994-2010 |
M. Edward Whelan III |
Activist |
c. 1959 |
|
Ethics and Public Policy Center |
Don R. Willett |
Judge |
16-Jul-1966 |
|
Justice, Texas Supreme Court |
John Yoo |
Government |
10-Jun-1967 |
|
Thinks Geneva Conventions are obsolete |
Todd Young |
Politician |
24-Aug-1972 |
|
Congressman, Indiana 9th |