Throughout each NSLC program, students have the opportunity to meet and interact with national and international leaders in government, politics, law, medicine and business.

Executive Branch Officials

Legislative Branch Officials

Judicial Branch Officials

Medicine & Forensic Science

Law & Advocacy

International Diplomacy

Defense & Intelligence

Policy & Politics

Business Officials

Journalists & Communication Officials

Madeleine Albright
U.S. Secretary of State

Janet Reno
Attorney General of the United States

Antony Blinken
Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Rod Paige
Secretary of Education

Anthony Principi
Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Jim Towey
White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives

Togo West
Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Senator Evan Bayh, D-IN

Senator Hillary Clinton, D-NY

Senator Christopher Dodd, D-CT

Senator Ted Kennedy, D-MA

Senator Trent Lott, R–MI

Senator Connie Mack, R-FL

Senator Chuck Hagel, R-NE

Senator Paul Simon, D-IL

Congressman Harris Fawell, R-IL

Congressman Hamilton Fish, D-NY

Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-AK

Congressman Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, R-IL

Congressman Edward J. Markey, D-MA

Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, D-NY

Justice Anthony Kennedy
U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
U.S. Supreme Court

Justice David Souter
U.S. Supreme Court

Honorable Karen Henderson
Appellate Court Justice, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals

Honorable Sara K. Radin
L.A. Superior Court Judge

Barbara Perry, Judicial Fellow,
U.S. Supreme Court

Kerri Ruttenberg
Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Raymond Thieme, Maryland Court of Special Appeals

Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona
Surgeon General

Special Agent Robert Fram
Scientific Analysis Section Chief, FBI Laboratory

Dr. Mark Lippman, Director
Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University

Dr. Maura McGuire
Chief, Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Eugene Major
Chief of Molecular Medicine & Neuroscience Laboratory, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Samir Fakhry
Chief of Trauma Services, Inova Fairfax Hospital; Clinical Professor of Surgery Georgetown University

Dr. Steven D. Nathan
Medical Director, Inova Lung Transplant Program Surgeon

Sandra S. Angell
Associate Dean for Academic & Student Support Services, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Betty Addison
Director of Student Services, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Heidi Patterson
National Director, Cord Blood Banking, American Red Cross

Matthew Chico
Senior Regional Associate, International Services, American Red Cross

Dr. Francesca Colantuno
Expert on Alternative Medicine

Dr. Michael Hattwick, Expert on Alternative Medicine

Charles Eisner
World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization

Brenda Henning
Acting Director, Office of Education, National Institutes of Health

Gwendolyn Maddox
Deputy Executive Vice President, National Kidney Foundation

Dr. Ron King, Director
Office of Technology Transfer, NHGRI National Institutes of Health

Dr. Hynda Kleinman
Cell Biology Section, Division of Intramural Research, NIDCR

Dr. AbuBakr Marzouk Deputy Medical Examiner, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP)

Dr. Edward Reedy
Forensic Pathologist, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP)

Special Agent Melissa Smrz
Forensic Analysis Section Chief, FBI Laboratory

Ms. Tia Swett
DC Rape Crisis Center

Dr. Phillip Berran
Associate Medical Examiner, Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner

Mr. Thomas Janovsky
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Forensic Sciences, Drug Enforcement Agency

Dr. Patricia Kauffman
Region III Director, Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team

Dr. Gary VandenBos
Publisher, American Psychological Association

Justice Stephen M. Schwebel
International Court of Justice

Jill Goldsmith
Attorney and writer of “The Practice”

Richard Mayberry
Attorney at Law, The Mayberry Law Firm

Sonya Winner
Attorney at law, Covington & Burling

Paulette E. Chapman
Attorney at Law, Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot

Marvin Rosenberg
Attorney at Law, Holland & Knight
Ross Dembling, Attorney at Law, Holland & Knight

Professor Jamin Raskin
Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University

Professor Joe Daly
Professor of Law and drafter of the Vietnam Constitution

Professor Adrienne Davis
Professor of Law, University of North Carolina

Professor David Chavkin, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University

William Wilder
Fairfax County Coroner’s Office

H.E. James D. Wolfensohn,
President of the World Bank

H.E. Jean-David Levitte
Ambassador of France to the U.S.

Anthony Quainton, President, National Policy Association

Dr. Walid Abdelnasser
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Egypt
Ambassador

Marc Grossman
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Al Santoli
Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council

Ambassador P.T. Sreenivasan
Chief of Mission, Embassy of India

H.E. Caroline Curiel, U.S. Ambassador to Belize

Ambassador Christian Filostrat
Diplomat-in-Residence, Howard University

H.E. Farid Abboud, Ambassador of Lebanon to the U.S.

H.E. Eva Nowotny
Ambassador of Austria to the U.S.

H.E. Juan Carlos Esguerra
Colombian Ambassador to the U.S.

H.E. Ljubica Z. Acevska
Macedonian Ambassador to the U.S.

Brigadier Gen. Arun Roye
Military Attaché of India

Adotei Akwei
Advocacy Director, Africa, Amnesty International USA

Honorable Robert L. Gallucci
Dean, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

Kimberly Stanton
Director, Latin America & Africa, RFK Memorial Center-Human Rights

Kevin O’Reilly
U.S. Department of State

Governor Robert Erlich,
Maryland

Linda Chavez-Thompson
Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO

Mr. Terry McAuliffe
Chairman, Democratic National Committee

Mr. Mike Duncan
Chairman, Republican National Committee

Mr. Craig Smith
Campaign Manager. Lieberman 2004, Gore 2000, Clinton 1992

Ron Nessen
Journalist-in-Residence, Brookings Institution, Former White House Press Secretary

Mr. Robert Merry
President, Congressional Quarterly

Theresa Amato
President, Citizen Works, Campaign Manager, Nader 2000

Mr. Larry Noble
Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics

Professor Nadine Strossen
President, American Civil Liberties Union

Mr. Dennis Van Roekel
Vice President, National Education Association

Mr. Richard Davis
McCain’s 2000 Campaign Manager

Mr. Dennis Courtland Hayes,
President, NAACP

Ms Sheila Krumholtz,
Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics

Congressman Bob Barr
Libertarian Party

Congressman Tim Roener
President, Center for National Policy

Ms. Alice Travis Germond
DNC Vice-Chairman, Democratic National Committee

Mr. George Tenet
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Mr. Mark Sullivan
Director, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security

William Black
Deputy Director, National Security Agency

Major General Ronald Burgess
Director, Intelligence Directorate, Joint Chiefs of Staff

General Michael Hayden
Director, National Security Agency

Admiral James Loy
Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Ambassador Ryan Crocker
National War College

John Fredman,
Central Intelligence Agency

Ambassador J. Cofer Black
Coord. for Counterterrorism, U.S. State Department

Laura Gross
Arms Control and Interagency Affairs, Missile Defense Agency

Christiana L. Lin
Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon

Paul Warnke
Former Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Reynold Hoover
Director of National Security Coordination, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security

Arthur DeLaney
Central Intelligence Agency

Jim Simon
Assistant Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Jim Zirkle
Central Intelligence Agency

Frank R. Doyle
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigations

Mr. Joseph Billy
Jr., Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Assistant Secretary Randall Fort
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State

Major General James Graves
Assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Reserve Matters, Pentagon, U.S. Department of Defense

Ms. Letitia Long
Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Mr. Wayne Murphy
Assistant Director, Directorate of Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mr. Scott Orenstein
President, G.H. Bass Retail

Ms. Nancy Higgens, Senior Vice President, Lockheed Martin

Mr. Stephen Zack
Vice President of Marketing, D.C. United

Ms. Anna Cabral
Treasurer, United States of America

Mr. John Castellani
President, Business Round Table

Mr. Christopher Chiames
Vice President- Corporate Affairs, US Airways

Ms. Suzanne Clark
Chief Operations Officer, US Chamber of Commerce

Ms. Melanie Sabelhaus
Deputy Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Mr. Chris Keeney
Director of Sales, D.C. United

Mr. John Casale
Vice President, New
York Stock Exchange

Ms. Valerie Harker
Chief Financial Officer, AES Corporation

Mr. Rodney Hood
Vice-Chairman, National Credit Union Administration

Mr. Joseph Loddo
District Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Ms. Angela Meyer
Vice President of Client Services, Exponent

Mr. Nicholas Provenzo
Founder and Chairman, Center for the Advancement of Capitalism

Mr. Anthony Recine
Group President, Verizon Communications

Ms. Ellen Thrasher
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Ms. Stephanie Cohen-Glass
Director, Strategic Communications, TIAA-Cref

Mr. Adam Davis
Executive Vice President, Staten Island Yankees

Mr. Warren Brown
Chief Executive Officer, Cake Love and Love Café

Mr. Tim Kurkjian
Reporter & Analyst, ESPN

Ms. Stu Seidel
Senior Editor, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Sunday

Mr. Tom Curley
President, Associated Press

Mr. Andy Siegel
Producer, Washington Post Live, Comcast Sportsnet

Mr. Russ Thaler
Host, Washington Post Live, Comcast Sportsnet

Mr. Rick "Doc" Walker
Host, Doc Walker Show, WTEM Sports Radio

Ms. Carol Maloney
Co-Host, Feldman and Maloney, WTEM Sports Radio

Mr. Andy Pollin
co-host, The Sports Reporters, WTEM Sports Radio

Mr. Scott Linn
Senior Anchor, WTEM Sports Radio

Mr. Mark Zuckerman
Reporter, Washington Times, Sports

Mr. Brandon Watson
Athlete, Baseball, Washington Nationals, Outfielder

Mr. Ross Detweiler
Athlete, Baseball, Washington Nationals, Pitcher

Ms. Chartese Burnett
Vice President, Communications, Nationals

Mr. Desson Thompson
Film Critic, Washington Post

Mr. Mark Jenkins
Film Critic, Orlando Weekly, Washington Post, Washington City Paper

Mr. Jonathan Blakely
Contributing Producer, National Public Radio

Ms. Liane Hansen
Host, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Sunday

Mr. Jim Morin
Cartoonist/Pulitzer Prize Winner, Miami Herald

Mr. Linton Weeks
Staff Writer, Washington Post

Mr. Doug Mitchell
Project Manager, National Public Radio, Next Generation Radio

Ms. Ede Jermin
News Planning Manager, NBC Universal, WRC

Mr. Matt Boratenski
Coordinator, Screen Education, American Film Institute, Silver Docs

Mr. Walter Mears, Political Correspondent/Pulitzer Prize Winner, Associated Press

Ms. Kathryn Johnson
Reporter, retired, Associated Press, Atlanta

Mr. Darrell Christian
Sports Editor, retired, Associated Press

Mr. Ron Edmonds
Photographer/Pulitzer Prize Winner, Associated Press

Mr. George Esper
Saigon Bureau Chief, retired Associated Press

Mr. Joe Urschel
Executive Director, Newseum

Mr. Colman McCarthy
Columnist, retired, Washington Post

Ms. Gemma Puglisi
Public & Media Relations Expert, American University