Eldie is the Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Amtrak. Previously, Eldie was a partner of the Boston-based law firm Ropes & Gray, where her practice included federal and state employment and environmental litigation, patent and antitrust cases and tax, business and civil rights litigation. From 1993 to 2001, Eldie served as Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, where her primary responsibilities included managing the Department's role in President Clinton’s judicial nominations process and managing the Department’s policy office.
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Doug is the Constitutional Accountability Center’s founder and President.
Akhil is the Southmayd Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. He received his B.A, summa cum laude, in 1980 from Yale College, and his J.D. in 1984 from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of The Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge Stephen Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit, Professor Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985.
After a long and successful career as the owner and CEO of a 200-employee design and manufacturing company in St. Louis, Fred founded Sage Consultants, LLC in 2003 to advise non-profit organizations on management, development and governance issues. He spent the first five years of his retirement career working for the Open Society Institute and has advised the Constitutional Accountability Center and its predecessor organization, Community Rights Counsel, since 2006, first as a management consultant and, since January 2011, as a member of CAC’s Board.
Peter is a partner in the law firm of Ropes & Gray, where he is head of the firm’s Corporate Department and co-head of its Colleges & Universities practice. Peter worked at Ropes & Gray from 1981 to 1993 as a corporate transactional and securities lawyer, becoming a partner in 1990. He left Ropes & Gray in 1993 to serve as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice. In 1996-97, Peter was an Associate Counsel to President Bill Clinton, working in the White House Counsel’s office.
Pam is a Visiting Professor at the Georgetown Law Center, where she has also served as the Executive Director of the Supreme Court Institute. From 2010 to 2012, Pam served as Principal Deputy to the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice. Until 2009, Pam was a partner and then of counsel at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, where she was a member of the Supreme Court and appellate practice, specializing in public interest litigation.