Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud is a retired Saudi Arabian diplomat,military officer,and government official who served as Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He is a member of the House of Saud. From 2005 to 2015 he served as secretary general of the National Security Council,and was director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 to 2015 he was King Abdullah's special envoy.
James Addison Baker III is an American attorney,diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 10th White House Chief of Staff and 67th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. Secretary of State before returning as the 16th White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
Warren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer,diplomat and politician. During Bill Clinton's first term as president,he served as the 63rd United States Secretary of State.
Baine Perkins Kerr was a prominent Houston lawyer who was a partner in the law firm of Baker and Botts,where he managed the corporate law department,before he joined Pennzoil.
John Thomas Schieffer is an American diplomat and entrepreneur who served as U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 2001 to 2005 and as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2005 to 2009.
David M. Laney is an attorney,an administrator of transportation programs,and a Republican supporter and fundraiser.
Robert Schwarz Strauss was an influential figure in American politics,diplomacy,and law whose service dated back to future President Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign in 1937. By the 1950s,he was associated in Texas politics with the faction of the Democratic Party that was led by Johnson and John Connally. He served as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee between 1972 and 1977 and served under President Jimmy Carter as the U.S. Trade Representative and special envoy to the Middle East. He later served as the Ambassador to Russia under President George H.W. Bush. Strauss also served as the last United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
William Wyche Fowler Jr. is an American attorney,politician,and diplomat. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1987 to 1993. He had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987.
Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments,he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Clayland Boyden Gray was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as White House Counsel from 1981 to 1993 and as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2007. He was a founding partner of the Washington,D.C.–based law firm Boyden Gray &Associates LLP.
Clifford Michael Sobel is an American business executive,financier,Republican fundraiser,U.S. diplomat and former ambassador.
Prior to his election as president in 2000,George W. Bush held other positions including being an oil executive,an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team,and the governor of Texas.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
Luis Guinot Jr. was an American diplomat who was the U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica from 1991 to 1993.
Baker Botts L.L.P. is an American law firm with approximately 725 lawyers. Headquartered in One Shell Plaza in Downtown Houston,Texas,the firm has energy and technology related clients. It is the second-oldest law firm west of the Mississippi.
The George W. Bush Presidential Center,which opened on April 25,2013,is a complex that includes former United States President George W. Bush's presidential library and museum,the George W. Bush Policy Institute,and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. It is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in University Park,Texas,near Dallas. It will be the future resting place of George W. Bush,the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009),and his wife Laura Bush.
Ford M. Fraker was a and American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.He was president of the Middle East Policy Council and chairman,Merrill Lynch Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Eugene Murphy Locke was an American lawyer,businessman,politician,and diplomat from Dallas,Texas,who in 1967 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was ambassador to Pakistan in 1966-1967 and deputy ambassador to South Vietnam in 1967-1968 before becoming an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Texas in 1968.
Catharina Jacoba Hendrika Dubbelday Haynes is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Jeanne Linden Phillips is an American businesswoman and diplomat. She served as United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2001 to 2003,under President George W. Bush.
