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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Portrait of Trevor Potter
President
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Portrait of Paul Klingenstein
Board Chair and Founder and Managing Partner at Aberdare Ventures
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Portrait of Jessica Amunson
Partner at Jenner & Block
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Neil Eggleston
Partner at Kirkland & Ellis
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Portrait of Chai Feldblum
Former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Faith Gay
Founding Partner at Selendy & Gay
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Patrick Geddes
Advisor to the Board and Member of the Board Audit & Financial Compliance Committee
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Portrait of Stuart Gerson
Former Acting Attorney General of the United States and Member of Epstein Becker Green Law Firm
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Portrait of Deborah Hellman
Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law
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Former President of the McCormick Foundation and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times
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Thurgood Marshall Jr.
Government Affairs Consultant
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Beverly Martin
Former Judge of US Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit
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Martha Minow
300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University and Former Dean of Harvard Law School
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Portrait of Norman Ornstein
Resident Scholar at American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy Research
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Thomas Sanchez
Co-Founder/CEO, Social Driver
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Ted Shaw
Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Former CEO of Corium, Inc. and Executive VP and General Counsel of ALZA Corporation
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Riley Temple
Founder, Temple Strategies and Former Partner Halprin Temple Law Firm
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Watford
Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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 DryerCharles Fried • Heather GerkenKirk JowersPamela KarlanCharles KolbTom Mann (Founding Board Member) • Clay MulfordCongressman Chris ShaysAmbassador Robert StuartScott ThomasMartina Vandenberg Senator Tim Wirth • Roger Witten

Litigation Strategy Council
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Partner at WilmerHale
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Partner at Jenner & Block
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Donald Ayer
Senior Advisor
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Partner at WilmerHale
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Former U.S. Solicitor General and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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Partner at Jenner & Block
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Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
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Professor of Law and Director of Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at University of Virginia Law School
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Paul Smith
Senior Vice President
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Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School
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Former U.S. Solicitor General and Partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson
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Former U.S. Solicitor General and Partner at WilmerHale