"Public Policy Leadership in the Virginia Tradition"

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John Taylor is the president of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, an independent, nonpartisan, education and research organization that develops and promotes public policy consistent with the Virginia tradition of individual liberty, dynamic entrepreneurial capitalism, private property, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government. He also serves as president of Tertium Quids, a 501(c)4 issue advocacy organization that hosts Virginia’s Tuesday Morning Group, a statewide coalition comprised of more than 350 activists who represent more than 150 organizations. In 1975, John received a B.A. from Wofford College, and subsequently earned an M.B.A. from Georgia State University, and a J.D. from the Woodrow Wilson College of Law. A member of the Federalist Society, he is also a member of the Philadelphia Society, the Council for National Policy, and the National Association of Scholars. John serves on the board of directors of the Virginia Association of Scholars and on the national advisory board of the James Monroe Memorial Foundation. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Hero of the Taxpayer award, an annual recognition given by Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, DC.

Derwood S. Chase, Jr. president of Chase Investment Counsel Corporation of Charlottesville, Virginia, which manages $2.5 billion for institutions and high net worth clients in thirty-two states. He is president and trustee of the Chase Foundation of Virginia and the recipient of two Freedom Foundation Awards. Mr. Chase is a past governor of the Investment Counsel Association of America, a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, and the Richmond Society of Financial Analysts. He is also a member of the Philadelphia Society and a director of the State Policy Network. Mr. Chase is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Charles J. Cooper has almost two decades of legal experience in government and in private practice. In 1977–78, Mr. Cooper served as law clerk to Judge Paul Roney of the Fifth (now Eleventh) Circuit Court of Appeals, and in 1978–79 he served as law clerk to Justice (now Chief Justice) William H. Rehnquist. In 1982 Mr. Cooper was appointed deputy assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division in the Reagan Justice Department, where he supervised all of the division’s litigation in the federal courts of appeals and in the Supreme Court. In 1985 President Reagan appointed Mr. Cooper to the position of assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. During his three years as head of that office, Mr. Cooper worked on virtually all issues concerning constitutional law, particularly on federalism, separation of powers, and First Amendment questions. Mr. Cooper also served as chairman of the President’s Working Group on Federalism and as a member of the National Security Council’s Policy Review and Planning and Coordinating Groups. Mr. Cooper left the Justice Department in 1988 and reentered private practice as a partner in the Washington office of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe. From 1990 until he founded Cooper & Carvin, a Washington, D.C. based law firm, he was a partner at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, where he headed the firm’s Constitutional and Government Litigation Group. Mr. Cooper has argued several cases before the Supreme Court and has also appeared before all but two of the thirteen federal courts of appeals. In 1998 Mr. Cooper was appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to serve as a member of the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Mr. Cooper is also a member of the Federalist Society and serves as chairman of its Practice Group on Civil Rights. In addition, he is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and he has spoken and published extensively on a wide variety of constitutional and legal policy topics.

Timothy E. Donner is executive director of Horizons Television, Inc., a television and video production company located in Great Falls, Virginia, that specializes in documentary, promotional, and educational video. Mr. Donner has served on the Boards of Trustees of the following organizations: the William H. Donner Foundation of New York, a diversified philanthropic foundation with assets of $80 million; the National Mental Health Association of Alexandria, Virginia; and the Donner Canadian Foundation, the third-largest national foundation in Canada.

Becky Norton Dunlop is vice president for external relations at The Heritage Foundation, where she directs outreach to the business community, policy groups, and state and local government officials. Before joining Heritage, she served as secretary of natural resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia, overseeing eight of Virginia’s state environmental agencies. During the 1980s, Mrs. Dunlop was a senior official in the Reagan administration, including service as deputy assistant to the President, with responsibility for presidential personnel and administration of the President’s cabinet. She was also senior special assistant in 1985 and 1986 to then attorney general Edwin Meese and from 1987 to 1989 served as deputy undersecretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior with then secretary Don Hodel. Mrs. Dunlop earned her bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Douglas C. Mills is executive director of the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Virginia. He previously served as director of development for Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where he actively participated in the successful FreedomQuest Fund capital and endowment campaign, which raised over $220 million. Mr. Mills is a graduate of Hillsdale College.

Richard F. Norman s president of The Richard Norman Company, Robertson Mailing List Company, and Patriot Data Services, which manages fundraising programs for dozens of nationally known conservative nonprofit lobby organizations and for numerous political campaigns, including those for candidates for governor, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and president. Richard began his career in politics in 1979, serving in various positions for political campaigns and as a political aid on Capitol Hill. He began his career in direct-mail fundraising in 1983 with Bruce W. Eberle & Associates, becoming president of that firm in 1985. In 1987 he founded The Richard Norman Company. Richard is the former finance director for the Oliver North for U.S. Senate campaign (1994) and Vice President Dan Quayle’s campaign for president (1999). Active is civic organizations, he is the former president of ECHO (Every Citizen Has Opportunities), a member of the board of trustees of Joe Gibbs’ Youth for Tomorrow, and a former member of the school board of Dominion Academy, an independent Christian K–8 school in Leesburg, Virginia. Richard is a member of the board of trustees of Bluefield College and the board of advisors of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He serves on the board of directors of the American Association of Political Consultants and is a member of the National Association of Republican Campaign Professionals and the State Finance Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is a member of the Leesburg Community Church. Richard received his B.A. in history from Bluefield College, and he pursued studies in political science at the University of Richmond Graduate School. He is the father of a nineteen-year-old son, JD, and a sixteen-year-old daughter, Beth Anne. Richard and his wife, Vickie, reside in Paeonian Springs, Virginia.

Lynn S. Taylor is vice president and CFO of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. She also serves as vice president and CFO of Tertium Quids. Prior to her current positions, Mrs. Taylor was managing director of the Charles G. Koch and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundations in Washington, D.C. Well-experienced in the management and the funding of nonprofit organizations, Mrs. Taylor served on the boards of the Heartland Institute for Public Policy, Chicago; the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, New York; and the Young Entrepreneurs of Washington, D.C. In 1976, she received a B.A. (mathematics) from Agnes Scott College, and subsequently earned an M.B.A. (finance) from Georgia State University, and a J.D. (cum laude) from the Woodrow Wilson College of Law. A member of the Philadelphia Society, Mrs. Taylor is also a member of the Federalist Society, the National Association of Scholars, and the Virginia Association of Scholars.