APPENDIX E
Biographical Information for Commissioners and List
of Commission Staff
Commission Co-Chairmen
Charles S. Robb is a former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator. As a Marine Corps officer during the 1960s, he commanded an infantry company in combat in Vietnam and, as a senator during the 1990s, he became the only member ever to serve simultaneously on all three national security committees. Robb received his law degree from the University of Virginia, clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and practiced law with Williams and Connolly in the 1970s and Hunton and Williams in the 1980s. Since leaving public office he has been a Professor of Law and Public Policy at George Mason University, served as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard and at the Marshall Wythe School of Law at The College of William & Mary, and Chaired the Board of Visitors at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Judge Laurence H. Silberman is a senior circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a member of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. The intelligence court, created in 1978, is charged with overseeing sensitive law enforcement surveillance by the U.S. government. Judge Silberman has served as Under Secretary of Labor, Deputy U.S. Attorney General, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia. From 1981 to 1985 he was a member of both the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and the Department of Defense Policy Board. Judge Silberman was appointed to the bench by President Reagan in 1985.
Commissioners
Richard C. Levin, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, was appointed the twenty-second President of Yale University in 1993. Before becoming president, he chaired the economics department and served as dean of the Graduate School. Dr. Levin was a member of the President's Commission on the United States Postal Service and currently is a director of the Hewlett Foundation, Lucent Technologies, Satmetix, and the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Science, Technology and Economics Policy. He also chairs the board of AllLearn, a joint venture of Yale, Oxford, and Stanford Universities.
Senator John McCain of Arizona is the senior senator from his state and has served in that chamber since 1986. He began his political career in 1982 as a U.S. Congressman from Arizona. In 2000, he sought the Republican presidential nomination. Senator McCain serves as chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and he is a member of the Armed Services and Indian Affairs committees. In January 2004, Senator McCain called for an independent inquiry into pre-war intelligence on Iraq.
Henry S. Rowen is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also Director emeritus of the Asia/Pacific Research Center at Stanford University and Professor of Public Policy and Management emeritus at the university's Graduate School of Business. He is currently doing research on regions of innovation and entrepreneurship throughout Asia and on economic and political topics in Asia. From 1989 to 1991, Rowen was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense. He was Chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1981 to 1983, served as President of the RAND Corporation from 1968 to 1972 and was Assistant Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1965 to 1966.
Walter B. Slocombe has held several high-level positions in the Department of Defense, including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 1994 to 2001; Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Policy from 1993 to 1994; Deputy Under Secretary for Policy Planning from 1979 to 1981; and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs from 1977 to 1979. During May-November 2003 he was Senior Advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad for National Security and Defense. Mr. Slocombe is currently a member of the Washington, D.C. law firm Caplin & Drysdale, chartered.
Admiral William O. Studeman (Ret.) was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1992 to 1995. He has held several high-level intelligence positions, including Director of the National Security Agency and Director of Naval Intelligence. He is a former Vice President and Deputy General Manager for Intelligence and Information Superiority at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, a $5 billion global defense contractor. He retired from the Navy in 1995 and Northrop Grumman in 2005.
Charles M. Vest served as president of MIT from 1990 to 2004. He chaired the U.S. Department of Energy Task Force on the Future of Science Programs from 2002 to 2003. From 1993 to 1994, Dr. Vest chaired the President's Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the International Space Station, and from 1994 to the present he served as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is a director of DuPont, IBM, and the Kavli Foundation.
Judge Patricia Wald served from 1999 to 2001 as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, Netherlands. An expert in international humanitarian law, she served 20 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, including five years as chief judge. She was appointed by President Carter in 1979. Prior to her service on the bench, she served as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs from 1977 to 1979.
Lloyd Cutler ( Of Counsel) is a founding partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and served as counsel to Presidents Clinton and Carter. Mr. Cutler was a member and chairman of the Quadrennial Commission on Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Salaries, and a member of the President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform in 1989.
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Executive Director
Vice Admiral John Scott Redd (Ret.) served 36 years in the U. S. Navy, commanding eight organizations at sea from a destroyer to a fleet. He founded and commanded the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Middle East in 1995 and served in several high-level policy positions in the Pentagon, including Director of Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5) on the Joint Staff. Since retiring in 1998 he has served as CEO of a high-tech education company and as Deputy Administrator/Chief Operating Officer of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
General Counsel
Stewart A. Baker is a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe and Johnson, LLP. He served as general counsel to the National Security Agency, deputy general counsel, Department of Education, law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, law clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Coffin, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, and the Honorable Shirley M. Hufstedler, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Mr. Baker also served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, a Defense Science Board panel on Information Warfare, and the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption.
Deputy Directors
Michael F. Munson (Director for Plans) is the former Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He has served as a Deputy Director for the National Reconnaissance Office and Director of Intelligence Program Review for the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. Mr. Munson was also the study director for the Congressionally chartered National Defense Panel. He has 35 years of intelligence experience.
Gordon C. Oehler (Director for Review) served for 25 years at the Central Intelligence Agency in a variety of technical and managerial positions. From April 1992 through October 1997, Dr. Oehler directed the DCI's Non-Proliferation Center and is recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on technology, proliferation, and weapons of mass destruction.
Professional Staff
John E. Antonitis
Intelligence
Professional
Margaret K. Baldwin
Information
Technology Specialist
Orrie B. Bayliss
Information
Technology Specialist
Shaba T. Bedney
Administrative
Assistant
Shelley Lea Bennett
Intelligence
Professional
James B. Bruce
Intelligence Professional
B. Belinda Canton
Intelligence Professional
Thomas G. Chappell
Executive Assistant
Felix J. Ciarlo
Consultant
Elbridge A. Colby
Intelligence Professional
Sean J. Coleman
Intelligence Professional
Joan L. C. Comtois
Administrative Assistant
Jeffrey R. Cooper
Consultant
Dylan D. Cors
Intelligence Professional
Michael R. Davis
Intelligence Professional
Sean B. Davis
Intelligence Professional
Diana L. Dieckhoff
Document Control Officer
Marsha L. Dimel
Human Resources Liaison
Harvey Dixon
Information Technology Specialist
Sarah S. Erwin
Executive Assistant
Andrew M. Fialdini
Intelligence Professional
Daniel J. Flynn
Intelligence Professional
Kenneth M. Geide
Intelligence
Professional
Brett C. Gerry
Deputy General Counsel &
Assistant Director
Ashley Godwin
Director of Staff Operations
and Finance
Irvin Gray
Director of Staff Operations
and Finance
John A. Hartford, Jr.
Intelligence Professional
Kate Heinzelman
Intelligence Professional
& Special Assistant to the General Counsel
Robert A. Herd
Intelligence Professional
R. Evans Hineman
Consultant
John C. Hoffman
Intelligence Professional
Joseph H. Holthaus
Security Manager
William C. Hopkins
Intelligence Professional
Penelope S. Horgan
Intelligence Professional
Darrin A. Hostetler
Associate General Counsel &
Intelligence Professional
Paul M. Johnson
Intelligence Professional
Arthur Jones
Chief of Staff
Tiffany N. Kennedy
Document Control Officer
James C. King
Intelligence Professional
Armad J. Kittrell
Information Technology
Specialist
Timothy R. Kochman
Information Technology Manager
Carl J. Kropf
Public Affairs Officer
Allen L. Krum
Intelligence
Professional
Philip H. Kunsberg
Deputy Director for
Plans
Thomas D. Lehrman
Intelligence Professional
Michael E. Leiter
Deputy General
Counsel &
Assistant Director
George Lemus
Information Technology Specialist
Justin B. Longcor
Facilities and
Logistics Manager
Jerry D. McEntire
Intelligence
Professional
Laurence J. McQuillan
Consultant
Robert P. Morean
Deputy Director for Review
Brandon J. Murray
Information Technology
Specialist
Lori E. Murray
Consultant
Peter Christopher Murray
Intelligence Professional
Dennis M. Nagy
Intelligence Professional
Julia Nesheiwat
Intelligence Professional
Robert A. Pattishall
Intelligence Professional
William R. Piekney
Intelligence Professional
Lois E. Ponikvar
Executive Assistant
Glenn D. Preston
Intelligence Professional
John J. Quattrocki
Intelligence Professional
Paul J. Redmond
Intelligence Professional
Keith E. Rice
Information Technology Specialist
Doreen G. Romero
Executive Assistant
Beth N. Sauter
Document Control Officer
Abe Schachter
Information Technology
Specialist
Steven T. Schanzer
Intelligence Professional
Andrew M. Shepard
Intelligence Professional
Teresa L. Smetzer
Consultant
Kelley Brooke Snyder
Associate General Counsel
&
Intelligence Professional
Suzanne E. Spaulding
Consultant
Michael K. Stransky
Intelligence Professional
John K. Strother
Intelligence Professional
Robert J. Surrette
Intelligence Professional
Patrick T. Toohey
Intelligence Professional
Monica D. Trachsel
Intelligence
Professional
George Tsakiris
Information
Technology Specialist
Marc A. Viola
Intelligence
Professional
Samuel S. Visner
Consultant
Nancy M. Wheeler
Intelligence Professional
William Wilber
Security Officer
Edward M. Wittenstein
Intelligence Professional
&
Special Assistant to the General Counsel
Shirley Cassin Woodward
Associate General Counsel &
Chief Iraq Investigator
Donald J. Wurzel
Intelligence
Professional
