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External Advisory Committee 2005 - 2007


CO-CHAIRS
Mr. John Simon
Partner, Jenner & Block;
Chair, DePaul University Board of Trustees
Mr. Jerold Solovy
Chairman of the Firm
Jenner & Block

MEMBERS
Mr. Marshall Bennett
Marshall Bennett Enterprises LLC
Ms. Marjorie C. Benton
President, MB Fund;
Co-Founder, Chicago Foundation for Women
Amb. J. D. Bindenagel
Vice President for Community, Government & International Affairs
DePaul University
Mr. Thomas Boodell, Jr.
Senior Partner
Boodell & Domanskis, LLC
Dr. Donna M. Carroll
President
Dominican University
Mr. Martin R. Castro
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP
Member, DePaul University Board of Trustees
Mr. John S. Chapman
Senior Partner
Lord, Bissell & Brook
The Hon. Suzanne Conlon
Senior District Judger
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Mr. Mark Ellis
Executive Director
International Bar Association
Ms. Rachel Golden
Rachel E. Golden Foundation
Mr. William Hannay
Partner
Schiff, Hardin & Waite
Dr. Shakeela Z. Hassan
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (Ret.)
University of Chicago Medical School
Amb. John Kordek
U.S. Ambassador (Ret.)
Mr. Bill Kurtis
President
Kurtis Productions
H.E. The Most Rev. Jerome Listecki
Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin
Mr. Terence MacCarthy
Director, Federal Defender Program
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Mr. Newton Minow
Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood;
Walter Annenberg Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University;
Chairman, Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Defense
Rev. Dr. Sid Mohn
President
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Mr. Talat Othman
Chairman
Grove Financial, Inc.
Ms. Younghee Jin Ottley
Partner
Winston & Strawn
H.E. The Most Rev. Thomas J. Paprocki
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago
St. Constance Parish
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker
Dean and Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law
University of the Pacific
Prof. W. Michael Reisman
Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law
Yale University Law School
Mr. John R. Schmidt
Partner
Mayer Brown & Rowe
The Rev. Donald Senior, C.P.
President
Catholic Theological Union
Ms. Caroline Shoenberger
Supervisory Attorney
Chicago Legal Clinic
Ms. Adele S. Simmons
Vice Chair and Senior Executive
Chicago Metropolis 2020
Mr. Granvil Specks
Partner
Specks & Goldberg
Dr. Charles Strain
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
DePaul Universtiy
Mr. Barry Sullivan
Partner, Jenner & Block;
Senior Lecturer, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
The Rev. Edward R. Udovic, C.M.
Senior Executive for University Mission, Vice President for Administration, and Secretary of the University, DePaul University
Presiding Officer, Vincentian Studies Institute of the United States
Amb. Richard Williamson
Partner, Mayer Brown & Rowe
Mr. Maynard I. Wishner
Attorney at Law
Honorary President, American Jewish Committee
Honorary Chairman, Jewish Community Relations Council
The Hon. Diane P. Wood
Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
International Human Rights Law Institute