Edwin Meese, Chairman, Scouting Legal Defense Fund
Edwin Meese is a former Attorney General of the United States. Before his appointment as Attorney General, he was counsel to President Reagan and also served as Governor Reagan's executive assistant and chief of staff. Mr. Meese has been a law professor, deputy district attorney, business executive and an attorney in private practice. Currently, he is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and is also a distinguished fellow and holder of the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Meese also serves on numerous boards and advisory committees.

Other Members of the Scouting Legal Defense Fund National Advisory Committee

Robert H. Bork
Robert H. Bork is a distinguished jurist, legal scholar, best selling author, lecturer frequent media commentator. He served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and taught law at Yale Law School. Judge Bork was Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General of the United States and was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan. He is currently the John M. Olin Scholar in Legal Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Congressman Chris Cannon
Congressman Chris Cannon represents Utah's Third Congressional District. He is a former Scout and Scout Master and is a member of the Scout Caucus of the House of Representatives.

Robert B. Carleson
Robert B. Carleson is President of Robert B. Carleson and Associates, a public policy and management consulting firm in San Diego, California. He has served in a number of government posts, including Special Assistant for Policy Development to President Reagan. Mr. Carleson has extensive business experience and currently serves part time as a Senior Fellow at the Free Congress Foundation. He also serves as the Chairman of the American Civil Rights Union.

Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez is President of the Center for Equal Opportunity in Washington, D.C. She is an author, syndicated columnist and lecturer and appears regularly on several news commentary programs. Her government service includes White House Director of Public Liaison and Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She currently sits on the boards of several non-profit organizations and corporations.

Peter J. Ferrara
Peter J. Ferrara is General Counsel and Chief Economist for Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, D.C. He has broad experience in government, having served in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States and in President Reagan's White House Office of Policy Development. He has been a professor of law and has been a senior fellow for the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Bradford Reynolds
Bradford Reynolds is an attorney with extensive experience in private practice. His public service includes eight years as Assistant Attorney General-Civil Rights and counselor to United States Attorney General Edwin Meese. He also served as an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States and as a Chairman of the Architectural Barriers Board.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher represents California's 45th Congressional District. He is a former Scout and is the Co-Chair of the Scout Caucus of the House of Representatives.

Joseph Perkins
Joseph Perkins is a nationally-syndicated columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune whose column appears in over 200 newspapers nationwide with a total circulation over 7 million. He is a frequent guest on network news programs and is a contributor to MSNBC. He was Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy to Vice President Dan Quayle and was an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Kenneth Y. Tomlinson
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson is a journalist who also has had a distinguished career in government. He served as Director of the Voice of America, Chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and as a member of the U.S. Board for International Broadcasting. For 28 years he was on the staff of the Reader's Digest, retiring as Editor-in-Chief.

James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson has been a professor of government at Harvard and the James Collins Professor of Management at UCLA. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society. He served as Chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime, Chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention and as a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Crime and of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

Dr Curtin Winsor, Jr.
Dr. Curtin Winsor, Jr. has broad experience in business and diplomacy. He is the Chairman and owner of the American Chemical Services Company and serves on a number of corporate and non-profit boards. He served as a career foreign service officer, Ambassador to Costa Rica and Special Emissary to the Middle East for President-elect Reagan. Dr. Curtin served as a Special Assistant to then Republican National Committee Chairman Senator Robert Dole and as Deputy Director of the Alliance for Free Enterprise.