Board of Directors


ROBERT HECKMAN

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Robert Heckman is a Principal at Capital City Partners in Washington, DC.  He is a veteran political consultant with 25 years of experience in national Congressional campaigns, including the presidential candidacies of George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Phil Gramm, and John McCain.  He is a recognized expert in grassroots coalitions and outreach.  As chairman of the fund for a Conservative Majority, he helped more than 200 successful Republican candidates, including Rep. Tom DeLay.
 

SUSANNA DOKUPIL

Vice President

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CURT LEVEY

President and Executive Director

After graduating Harvard Law School with honors and clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm in Washington, DC. There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases.
 
After CIR, he moved to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, where he headed the Title IX policy group until joining CFJ.  He also serves on the Virginia State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, as well as on the executive committee of the Federalist Society's civil rights practice group.
 
Mr. Levey's articles on the judiciary, constitutional law, and civil rights have appeared in leading national newspapers and magazines, as well as in law reviews and other legal publications.  He has been a guest on more than two hundred radio and television programs, and has spoken to dozens of live audiences, including at bar association events and the nation's top law schools.
 
Mr. Levey also has an M.S. and B.A. in computer science from Brown University.  He worked in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) before attending law school and invented a new type of AI technology, for which he wrote a successful patent application.
 
 

Board of Advisors


Ms. M. Diane Allbaugh

Of Counsel, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Inc.

Mr. Stan Anderson

Partner, McDermott Will & Emery

Ms. Lillian BeVier

Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law

The Honorable Jennifer C. Braceras

Senior Fellow, Independent Women's Forum

The Honorable John Engler

Former Governor of the State of Michigan

Mr. Lanny Griffith

Chief Operating Officer, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Inc.

Ms. Judith R. Hope

Partner, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker

The Honorable Connie Mack

Senior Policy Advisor, Shaw Pittman

The Honorable Edwin Williamson

Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell