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The Washington Center for Politics & Journalism has both an operating Board of Directors, to administer formal business of the Center, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt foundation and non-profit corporation, and an Advisory Board. The boards include journalists and journalism educators, plus a bi-partisan group of political practitioners and elected and political party officials.

Tony Blankley
Tony Blankley

  • exec. v.p., global public affairs, Edelman International
  • visiting senior fellow, Heritage Foundation
  • former edit. page editor, The Washington Times
  • former press secretary, Speaker Newt Gingrich
  • former speech writer
    for President Reagan
  • regular panelist, The McLaughlin Group
  • author, “The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?”
Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift
  • contributing editor, Newsweek
  • author, "Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment"
  • co-author (with her late husband, Tom Brazaitis) "War Without Blood: The Art of Politics," and "Madam President: Shattering the Last
    Glass Ceiling,"
  • regular McLaughlin Group panelist
Dr. Joe Foote
Dr. Joe Foote
  • dean, Univ. of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
  • former director, Walter Cronkite School of Journ., Arizona State Univ. and dean, Southern Illinois Univ. College of Commun.
  • former press secretary, U.S. House Speaker Carl Albert
  • 2002 president, Assn. for Education in Journalism and Mass Commun.
Ladonna Y. Lee
Ladonna Y. Lee
  • strategic counselor and director, DC Public Affairs, Foley & Lardner
  • former president and co-owner, The Eddie Mahe Co.
  • former staff assistant, Republican Nat. Com.
  • assistant to presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
  • editor for "Campaign War Stories," by Tony Payton
Mike McCurry
Mike McCurry
  • partner, Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
  • former press secretary to President Bill Clinton
  • former press spokesman, U.S. Dept. of State.
  • former communications director, Democratic Nat. Com.
  • former press secretary, Sen. Pat Moynihan and presidential and vice presidential campaigns of John Glenn, Bruce Babbitt, Lloyd Bentsen, and Bob Kerrey
Terry Michael
Terry Michael
  • founder and director of the Center
  • reporter, 1969-72
  • former press secretary: Illinois House of Rep., U.S. Rep. Paul Simon, Democratic National Com., 1988 Simon for President campaign
  • former lecturer in journalism, Geo. Washington Univ.,
  • "Distinguished Service Award," DC SPJ (2001); "Presidential Award," Assn. for Edc. in Journ. and Mass Commun. (2002)

Margaret Alexander Parker


In Memoriam
A former finance director for the Republican National Committee, Margaret was a long-time supporter of the Center and our program.
Born April 12, 1958,
she passed away
on November 30, 2006.

Robert Pierre
Robert Pierre
  • correspondent, The Washington Post
  • member, first Politics & Journalism class (Fall 1989)
  • former visiting professor, Dillard Univ. in Louisiana
  • former president, Washington chapter, National Assn. of Black Journalists

Juan Williams
  • senior correspondent, National Public Radio
  • Fox News Channel analyst
  • author: "Enough," "Thurgood Marshall: Amer. Revolutionary," "Eyes on the Prize," and "This Far by Faith"
  • former reporter, The Washington Post

Judy Woodruff
Judy Woodruff

  • special PBS corresp.
  • visiting fellow (2005), Harvard’s Shorenstein Center
  • former anchor and senior correspondent, Cable News Network
  • former MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour anchor and correspondent
  • former NBC News White House correspondent.

2008 Board of Directors Meeting
Board members gathered in Washington at the Center's offices at The Watergate on February 14, adopting a $324,100 budget for 2008 and discussing plans for celebration of the Center's 20th Anniversary of incorporation in December 1988 and commemoration of its first class in September of 1989.
The Board's next annual meeting will be February 11, 2009
Board 2008 Meeting
Seated, from left: Tony Blankley, Ladonna Lee, Joe Foote and Juan Williams.
Standing: Mike McCurry, Robert Pierre, Judy Woodruff and Terry Michael.
Eleanor Clift (inset) was unable to attend the meeting.


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