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Judges
Jacqueline Adams
A former White House correspondent for CBS, Adams is now a Senior Counselor at Burson-Marsteller.
Cecilia Alvear
A pioneering Latina television journalist at NBC Network News and former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Alvear is an independent television producer.
Professor Anita L. Allen
Allen, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, writes books and articles about privacy and contemporary values.
Myrna Blyth
Former of Ladies Home Journal and founder of More magazine, Blyth is a free-lance writer and web editor.
Hon. John Brademas
A member of the House of Representatives from 1959 to 1981, Brademas is president emeritus of New York University and former chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Christopher Buckley
Editor at Large of ForbesLife, Buckley is author of 14 books including the forthcoming Losing Mum and Pup.
Margaret Carlson
Carlson, Washington editor-at-large at The Week, is a columnist for Bloomberg News. She earlier served as a White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, and columnist for Time.
Tucker Carlson
A journalist and commentator, Carlson has co-hosted CNN's Crossfire and is Senior Campaign Correspondent for MSNBC.
Susan Cheever
Desire is the latest of Cheever's ll books which include the memoir Home Before Dark about life with her father, the writer John Cheever.
Sir Jolyon Connell
Connell, editorial director of The Week in Great Britain, was the magazine's founding editor in 1995. He previously served as a Washington correspondent.
Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley hosts a nationally syndicated radio show and is a panelist on The McLaughlin Group and a political analyst for Fox News.
Hon. Mario M. Cuomo
Cuomo served as governor of New York from 1982 to 1994. He is the author of Why Lincoln Matters and currently practices law with the firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Eric Effron
Effron is managing editor of The Week. He earlier served as editor of Brill's Content and Legal Times.
Edward Jay Epstein
Epstein, who has written extensively about the CIA, KGB and international trafficking in diamonds drugs, is columnist for Slate.com. His most recent book is The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood.
Sir Harold Evans
Evans is the former editor of The Times and The Sunday Times of London. He is working on We the People, the final book in a trilogy that includes The American Century and, more recently, the acclaimed They Made America. He is editor-at-large
of The Week.
William Falk
Falk is editor-in-chief of The Week. He previously worked at Newsday, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting.
David Frum
A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Frum is a Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and editor of www.NewMajority.com
Robert Giles
Giles, the curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, was previously editor and publisher of the Detroit News.
Tom Goldstein
Former dean of the graduate schools of journalism at Berkeley and at Columbia, Goldstein is professor of journalism and director of the media studies program at the University of California at Berkeley.
Vartan Gregorian
Gregorian is the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A 1998 recipient of the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of The Road to Home: My Life and Times.
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Hoge is editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. He previously served as editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and publisher of the New York Daily News.
Philip K. Howard
Author of best-seller The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America, Howard is a partner in the New York office of Covington & Burling and has just written Life without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law
Walter Isaacson
President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, Isaacson is a former Chairman and CEO of CNN and former editor of Time magazine. He has written Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Einstein: His Life and Universe.
Alex Jones
Jones is the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his coverage in The New York Times of the collapse of a Louisville newspaper dynasty.
Bob Kerrey
Former Nebraska Senator and Governor Kerrey is President of the New School in New York City.
Geneva Overholser
A former editor of the Des Moines Register and ombudsman at the Washington Post, Overholser is now Director of the School of Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.
Edward J. Rollins
An author and former top advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Rollins is a political and communications consultant and frequent television commentator.
Bob Shrum
A Senior Fellow at NYU's Wagner School, Shrum was a longtime Democratic consultant and Senior Adviser to the Gore 2000 and Kerry 2004 campaigns.
Hon. William F. Weld
The governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, Weld is the author of Big Ugly, a political satire. He is currently a Republican candidate for governor of New York.
James Q. Wilson
Ronald Reagan Professor Public Policy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, Wilson chairs the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute.
Judge Coordinator
Sharon King Hoge
