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2008-2009 (current)
Felice D. Gaer (Chair); Michael Cromartie (Vice Chair); Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou (Vice Chair); Dr. Don Argue; Preeta D. Bansal; Imam Talal Y. Eid; Dr. Richard
D. Land; Leonard A. Leo; Nina Shea; Ambassador John
V. Hanford, III (Ex-Officio Member)
2007-2008
Michael Cromartie (Chair); Preeta D. Bansal (Vice Chair); Dr. Richard D. Land (Vice Chair); Dr. Don Argue; Imam Talal Y. Eid; Felice D. Gaer; Leonard A. Leo; Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou; Nina Shea; Ambassador John V. Hanford, III (Ex-Officio Member)
2006-2007
Felice D. Gaer (Chair); Michael Cromartie (Vice Chair); Dr.
Elizabeth H. Prodromou (Vice Chair); Nina Shea (Vice Chair); Dr. Khaled M. Abou
El Fadl; Preeta D. Bansal; Archbishop Charles J. Chaput; Dr. Richard D. Land;
Bishop Ricardo Ramirez; Ambassador John V. Hanford, III (Ex-Officio Member)
2005-2006
Michael Cromartie (Chair); Felice D. Gaer (Vice Chair); Nina
Shea (Vice Chair); Dr. Khaled M. Abou El Fadl; Preeta D. Bansal; Archbishop
Charles J. Chaput; Dr. Richard D. Land; Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou; Bishop
Ricardo Ramirez; Ambassador John V. Hanford, III (Ex-Officio Member)
2004-2005
Preeta D. Bansal (Chair); Felice D. Gaer (Vice Chair); Nina
Shea (Vice Chair); Dr. Khaled M. Abou El Fadl; Archbishop Charles J. Chaput;
Michael Cromartie; Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou; Bishop Ricardo Ramirez; Michael
K. Young; Ambassador John V. Hanford, III (Ex-Officio
Member)
2003-2004
Michael K. Young (Chair); Felice D. Gaer (Vice Chair); Nina
Shea (Vice Chair); Preeta D. Bansal; Patti Chang; Dr. Khaled M. Abou El Fadl; Archbishop Charles J. Chaput; Richard D. Land; Bishop Ricardo Ramirez; Ambassador
John V. Hanford, III (Ex-Officio Member)
2002-2003
Felice D. Gaer (Chair); Michael K. Young (Vice Chair); Firuz
Kazemzadeh; Richard D. Land; Bishop William F. Murphy; Leila Nadya Sadat; Nina
Shea; The Honorable Charles R. Stith; The Honorable Shirin Tahir-Kheli
2001-2002
Michael K. Young (Chair); Felice D. Gaer (Executive
Committee); The Honorable Charles R. Stith (Executive Committee); Firuz Kazemzadeh;
Richard D. Land; Bishop William F. Murphy; Leila Nadya Sadat; Nina Shea; The
Honorable Shirin Tahir-Kheli
2000-2001
The Honorable Elliot Abrams (Chair); Firuz Kazemzadeh (Vice
Chair); Leila Al-Marayati, M.D.; The Honorable John R. Bolton; Cardinal Theodore
McCarrick; Rabbi David Saperstein; Nina Shea; Charles Z. Smith; Michael K.
Young; Ambassador Robert A. Seiple (Ex-Officio
Member)
1999-2000
Rabbi David Saperstein (Chair); Michael K. Young (Vice
Chair); The Honorable Elliot Abrams; Leila Al-Marayati, M.D.; The Honorable
John R. Bolton; Firuz Kazemzadeh; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; Nina Shea;
Charles Z. Smith; Ambassador Robert A. Seiple (Ex-Officio Member)
Dr. Khaled M. Abou El
Fadl
Commissioner 2003-2007
Dr. Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law at the University of California,
Los Angeles,
was appointed by President George W. Bush.
Elliott Abrams
Commissioner 1999-2001, Commission Chair 2000-2001
Mr. Abrams, who was appointed by then-Speaker
of the House Newt Gingrich, was President of the Ethics and Public Policy
Center in Washington
during his time as Commissioner. Mr. Abrams was later appointed by
President George W. Bush as Deputy National Security Advisor for Global
Democracy Strategy.
Dr. Laila Al-Marayati
Commissioner 1999-2001
A physician, Dr. Al-Marayati is a past president of the
Muslim Women's League. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton.
John R. Bolton
Commissioner 1999-2001
Mr. Bolton was appointed by then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. During his time as Commissioner, Mr. Bolton was
Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations 2005-2006, then returned to the American Enterprise Institute as Senior
Fellow.
Patti Chang
Commissioner 2003-2004
Ms. Chang, who was President and CEO of the Women's
Foundation of California while serving as Commissioner, was appointed by
then-House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi.
Most Reverend Charles
J. Chaput
Commissioner 2003-2007
Rev. Chaput, the Archbishop of Denver, was appointed by President
George W. Bush.
Firuz Kazemzadeh
Commissioner 1999-2003, Commission
Vice Chair 2001-2002
After his appointment to the
Commission by President Bill Clinton, Dr. Kazemzadeh was reappointed by
then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2001. When he joined the Commission, Dr. Kazemzadeh
was Secretary of External Affairs of the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Baha'is of the United States
and Professor Emeritus of History at Yale
University.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
Commissioner 1999-2001
Cardinal McCarrick, who was appointed by then-Senate
Minority Leader Tom Daschle, was the Cardinal of Newark, New Jersey, and became
Archbishop of Washington. He is now
Archbishop Emeritus of Washington.
Most Reverend William
Francis Murphy
Commissioner 2001-2003
Appointed by President George W. Bush, Bishop Murphy was Bishop
of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York, while he served on the Commission.
Most Reverend Ricardo Ramirez
Commissioner 2003-2007
Rev. Ramirez, the Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was
appointed by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle.
Leila Nadya Sadat
Commissioner 2001-2003
A professor of law at Washington University School of Law, in
St. Louis, Ms. Sadat
was appointed by then-House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Rabbi David Saperstein
Commissioner 1999-2001, Commission Chair 1999-2000
During his time on the Commission, Rabbi Saperstein was
Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington. He was appointed by then-House
Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Robert Seiple
Ex-0fficio Commissioner, 1999-2000
Mr. Seiple was appointed the Department of State's first
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in 1999 and in that
capacity served with the Commission as Ex-Officio Commissioner through August
2000.
Justice Charles Z.
Smith
Commissioner 1999-2001
Justice Smith, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton,
was Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court during his term on the
Commission. He has since retired.
Ambassador Charles R.
Stith
Commissioner 2001-2003
Ambassador Stith was appointed to the Commission by
then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Stith was U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania and senior
minister of the Union United Methodist
Church in Boston.
He was later named Director of the African Presidential Archives and
Research Center
at Boston University.
Dr. Shirin Raziuddin
Tahir-Kheli
Commissioner 2001-2003
Dr. Tahir-Kheli, appointed to the Commission by President
George W. Bush, was with Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies' Foreign Policy Institute during her term, and later
became Senior Adviser on Women's Empowerment at the Department of State.
Michael K. Young
Commissioner 1999-2005, Commission Chair, 2001-2002 and Vice
Chair, 1999-2000 and 2002-2003
Mr. Young was appointed to the Commission by then-Senate
Majority Leader Trent
Lott and re-appointed by Senator Lott in 2001 and 2003. When he was first appointed to the
Commission, Young was Dean of the George
Washington University
Law School. During his time on the Commission, he became President
of the University
of Utah.
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