Laura Lane Welch Bush is an American teacher,librarian,memoirist and author who was First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Bush previously served as First Lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000. She is the wife of former President George W. Bush,and the daughter-in-law of former president George H. W. Bush.
Condoleezza Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A member of the Republican Party,she previously served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th United States national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor. Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008,Rice and her predecessor,Colin Powell,were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch. At the time of her appointment as Secretary of State,Rice was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States to be in the presidential line of succession.
James Addison Baker III is an American attorney,statesman,and politician in the Republican Party. He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan,and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
Elizabeth Anne Ford was the first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977,as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady,she was active in social policy and set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse. Ford also served as the second lady of the United States from 1973 to 1974 when her husband was vice president.
Dorothy Ann Richards was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat,she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer,when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards was the second female governor of Texas,and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners.
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins was an American newspaper columnist,author,political commentator,and humorist.
Harriet Ellan Miers is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party since 1988,she previously served as White House Staff Secretary from 2001 to 2003 and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy from 2003 until 2005. In 2005,Miers was nominated by Bush to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,but—in the face of bipartisan opposition—asked Bush to withdraw her nomination. Following her withdrawal in 2007,Miers returned to private practice,becoming a partner in the litigation and public policy group at Locke Lord.
Charlotte Beers is an American businesswoman and former Under Secretary of State.
Camp Casey was the name given to the encampment of anti-war protesters outside the Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford,Texas during US President George W. Bush's five-week summer vacation there in 2005,named after Iraq War casualty US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan.
Nancy Goodman Brinker is the founder of The Promise Fund and Susan G. Komen for the Cure,an organization named after her only sister,Susan,who died from breast cancer. Brinker was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. Brinker,a breast cancer survivor,uses her experience to heighten understanding of the disease. In 2011 she was appointed to be a Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control by the World Health Organization.
Burson Cohn &Wolfe is a multinational public relations and communications firm,headquartered in New York City. In February 2018,parent WPP Group PLC announced that it had merged its subsidiaries Cohn &Wolfe with Burson-Marsteller. The combined agency is now known as Burson Cohn &Wolfe.
Karl Christian Rove is an American Republican political consultant,policy advisor,and lobbyist. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until his resignation on August 31,2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs,the Office of Public Liaison,and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives.
Linda Lorelle is a journalist who anchored the evening news for nearly 17 years at Houston's NBC affiliate,KPRC-TV. She is CEO &Executive Producer of Linda Lorelle Media,a communications consulting and video production firm based in Houston. She is also Creator and Host of the award-winning Our Voice Matter Podcast. Linda's accolades include an Emmy for "Beyond Brown vs. Board:The Journey Continues," a documentary on how Houston desegregated its schools,and an Emmy for her first-person account of another local news anchor's cancer. Lorelle also garnered two national Gracie Awards,given by the American Women in Radio and Television.
Maria Ninfa Rodriguez Laurenzo,born with the family name Rodriguez,was an American restaurateur from Houston,Texas who founded the restaurant Ninfa's. Laurenzo started out running a single taco stand in Houston,Texas.
Julie E. Cram is a Deputy Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth,Education and Environment (E3) at the United States Agency for International Development. She is a former lobbyist for DDR Advocacy and a Republican Party operative who worked for former U.S. President George W. Bush.
PSB Insights is a consultancy firm founded in 1997 by Mark Penn and Douglas Schoen.
Curtis S. Chin is a public figure,speaker,author and policy specialist. He has served in leadership and operational positions in the private,not-for-profit and public sectors in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States –including as the 15th United States Ambassador to and member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He also served as a trustee of World Education Services and is the inaugural Asia Fellow of the Milken Institute.
Karen E. Keller served as the personal secretary to United States President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009 and is the current Director of Special Events and Protocol for the Smithsonian Institution.
Mike Fernandez is a business executive who has led communications,marketing,government relations and sustainability for a number of large companies. Fernandez also served as the US CEO for two agencies,Burson-Marsteller and Llorente y Cuenca. He was a full-time professor of practice at Boston University and an adjunct professor at several universities. He currently is the senior vice president of public affairs,communications and sustainability at Enbridge which is headquartered in Calgary,AB,Canada.
Natalie Sue Miller was an American fashion model,breast cancer survivor,breast cancer activist,counselor,and author. Born in Kansas City,Missouri,she moved to Denver,Colorado at age 19 as a newlywed and started a career in fashion modeling. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 34 and undergoing a mastectomy,she created a fashion show featuring models who had also had breast cancer. In 1981,she founded the Sue Miller Day of Caring,a non-profit organization for breast cancer education and awareness. In its first 35 years,the Day of Caring has been a resource for over 17,500 survivors of breast cancer,providing educational forums and support services at its annual event,held in nine U.S. cities. Miller earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at age 60 and 75,respectively,and wrote her autobiography,I'm Tougher Than I Look,in 2004. In 2002,Miller was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
