After the death from brain cancer of his late wife, Barbara McDowell, in 2009, Jerry Hartman established the Barbara McDowell Foundation to commemorate her life and passion for social justice. Since then, he has served as the Foundation’s President and Board Chair, guiding it to a nationally recognized charitable institution.

Bill retired from the partnership at the Jones Day law firm in 2019. He was in the Business and Tort Litigation Practice, with a focus on antitrust, class actions, consumer protection, and other complex litigation. After 20 years at Jones Day (including practicing with Barbara McDowell during her time at the firm), Bill left to serve from 2006-2008 as Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Ethics Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

Joshua, a Management Consultant with JKD Consultants Inc., served as a Director on the Boards of technology-based public companies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan, and of private companies. Joshua has been successful with respect to mergers and acquisitions, shareholder liquidity transactions, new product introductions, and operational improvements in a business-to-business environment.

Deborah started her legal career in the Honors Program of the US Department of Justice. She litigated pattern and practice cases in the Civil Rights Division’s Employment Section. She handled cases against public and private employers and defended challenges to the federal governments affirmative action requirements for contractors. After moving to California, she worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District, handling a wide variety of civil suits against federal agencies.

Kenya is a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Boies Schiller Flexner, where she focuses on investigations and compliance work, particularly ESG-related issues such as ensuring the integrity of supply chains and labor practices in the U.S. and globally. Kenya’s recent representative matters include providing a major U.S.-based corporation with UFLPA compliance advice and securing a jury verdict of nearly $800 million on behalf of a class of private shareholders against the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Dana Foster is a partner in the Antitrust Group of White & Case. He has over 21 years of trial and appellate litigation experience, advising domestic and foreign clients in all aspects of complex civil and criminal matters, both at the federal and the state level. Dana’s trial achievements include representing Anthem as trial counsel in an action related to the efforts by Cigna’s management to undermine Anthem's $54 billion acquisition of Cigna. He also successfully defended Toshiba at two separate trials—one brought by a direct purchaser class and another by an opt-out Fortune 500 company—involving price-fixing claims in the LCD industry.

Prior to joining the faculty of the George Washington University Law School in 1994, Jeffrey S. Gutman served as a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice (DOJ). His work at the DOJ principally involved representing the federal government in constitutional and administrative challenges to federal statutes and regulations in federal courts throughout the country. Among the cases he litigated were challenges to the military base closing statute, firearms control legislation and regulations, legislation governing the receipt of honoraria by federal employees, the savings and loan reform statutes, and private meetings of government advisers.

Doug is a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and a nationally recognized litigator who represents corporations, a variety of financial institutions (i.e., banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, private equity funds), boards of directors, special committees and corporate executives. He has been engaged in cases involving securities, derivative products and other complex financial instruments. In this regard, he has advised and defended entities and corporate executives in inquiries by civil and criminal authorities (as well as Self-Regulatory Organizations) into business practices that have been questioned by regulators as well as insider trading matters.

Andrew S. Rosen is Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., among the world’s largest, most diverse education organizations. He also serves as Executive Vice President of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC), Kaplan’s parent company. Since he joined the company in 1992, Kaplan has transformed from an unprofitable test prep firm to a broad global educational enterprise known for its innovation in higher education, professional licensure, certifications and workforce development, international university pathway programs, English-language training, university hosting and transnational education, while restoring its pre-eminence in test preparation.

Laura is a nationally recognized trial lawyer whose practice focuses on antitrust litigation and government investigations. Her experience includes substantial antitrust class action experience representing clients in the life sciences industries, as well as the representation of individuals in criminal cases at trial and on appeal. Laura has represented victims of gender discrimination on a pro bono basis at trial and on appeal; she currently represents an Alabama prison inmate in a high-profile civil rights lawsuit against the State of Alabama.

Peggy retired from the partnership at Latham & Watkins LLP in December 2019. Prior to joining Latham in 2005, she had practiced at Howrey LLP for many years, and was one of the first women to join the firm as an associate in 1976.