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William J. Antholis

Antholis is director and CEO of the Miller Center. He served as President Clinton’s director of international economic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council.

Olivia Beavers

Olivia Beavers

Beavers is a reporter covering Congress in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. Her stories explore the personalities, policies, and politics unfolding on Capitol Hill. She previously reported for POLITICO and The Hill.

Sarah Binder

Sarah Binder

Binder is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of political science at George Washington University, specializing in Congress and legislative politics.

Robert Blair

Robert Blair

Blair, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, is chief global policy officer at Applied Materials. During the first Trump administration, Blair held senior roles, including associate director for national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget.

Robert Bond

Robert Bond

Bond, a member of the Miller Center Governing Council, spent his entire career in the computer industry. During his career, he was responsible for managing non-U.S. businesses for both Hewlett Packard and Rational Software.

Stephen M. Burns

Stephen Burns

Burns, a Miller Center Governing Council member, is a managing partner at Quad-C Management. Previously, he worked in the risk arbitrage group and leveraged capital group at Paribas.

Brandice Canes-Wrone

Brandice Canes-Wrone

Canes-Wrone is a professor in the political science department and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is also the director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions.

Mary Vee Connell

Mary Vee Connell

Connell, a Miller Center Governing Council member and chair of the Miller Center Foundation Board of Directors, comes from a distinguished career in intelligence, most of which was at the Central Intelligence Agency.

David Crowe

David Crowe

Crowe, a Miller Center Governing Council member, served as associate international tax counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department and was a partner at Caplin & Drysdale. He previously worked in investment banking.

Lee Drutman

Lee Drutman

Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He is the cofounder of Fix Our House, a campaign for proportional representation in America.

Melanie Egorin

Melanie Egorin

Egorin, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is a professor of practice at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. From 2012 to 2021, she served as a health and tax policy professional on the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Mike Emanuel

Mike Emanuel

Emanuel is chief Washington correspondent for FOX News Channel and coanchor of FOX News Live. He has provided live coverage of numerous critical national and international events.

Kevin Fromer

Kevin Fromer

Fromer is the immediate past president and CEO of the Financial Services Forum. His 20-year government career included serving as assistant secretary of the treasury for legislative affairs and as a senior policy advisor to the speaker of the House.

Amy C. Gaudion

Amy C. Gaudion

Gaudion is a professor of law and the founder of Penn State Dickinson Law’s cyberspace simulation with the U.S. Army War College. Her scholarship spans constitutional law, national security law, and civil–military relations.

SoRelle Gaynor

SoRelle Gaynor

Gaynor, a Miller Center faculty fellow, is an assistant professor of public policy and politics at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She is a former APSA Public Service Fellow for the U.S. House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.

Hon. Tom Graves

Tom Graves

Graves served in the U.S. House of Representatives (R-GA) from 2010–2020, including service as vice chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. He is the president and CEO of Ervine Graves.

Jennie Hantzmon

Jennie Hantzmon

Hantzmon, a Miller Center Governing Council member, previously served on the Miller Center Foundation Board. She was also a member of the original Friends of the Miller Center committee.

Michael S. Johnson

Michael S. Johnson

Johnson spent 47 years serving in the White House, Congress, advocacy, public affairs, and the private sector. His congressional service spanning 13 years was with Rep. Robert H. Michel, the House Republican whip, and later the Republican leader.

Maya Kornberg

Maya Kornberg

Kornberg is a senior research fellow and manager in the Elections and Government Program, where she leads work related to legislative reform, government capacity, and political violence, at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Kevin Kosar

Kevin R. Kosar

Kosar is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies the U.S. Congress, the administrative state, American politics, election reform, and the U.S. Postal Service. He edits UnderstandingCongress.org.

Frances Lee

Frances Lee

Lee is a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, specializing in Congress and party politics. Her recent books include A Case for Congress (2026) and The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (2020).

Kyle Matous

Kyle Matous

Matous is the director of government relations at Advocacy Associates. His tenure on Capitol Hill included serving as chief of staff for congressman Pete Sessions and as policy director for the House Committee on Rules.

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Dan Meyer

Meyer, a Miller Center Governing Council member, served as chief of staff to former House Speakers Kevin McCarthy and Newt Gingrich, as well as assistant to the president for legislative affairs in the George W. Bush administration.

Sid Milkis

Sidney M. Milkis

Milkis is the Miller Center’s White Burkett Miller Professor of Governance and Foreign Affairs and a professor of politics in UVA's Department of Politics. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, and social movements. 

Spencer Overton

Spencer Overton

Overton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at George Washington University, as well as the founder and faculty director of GW Law’s Multiracial Democracy Project.

Eloise Pasachoff

Eloise Pasachoff

Pasachoff is Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She studies administrative law, public administration, and budget and appropriations law.

Barbara Perry

Barbara A. Perry

Perry is the Miller Center’s J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance and codirects the Presidential Oral History Program. She has authored many books on presidents, First Ladies, the Kennedy family, the Supreme Court, and civil rights.

Rachel Potter

Rachel Potter

Potter, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is an associate professor of politics in UVA's Department of Politics. She studies the hidden politics of procedure and process in American political institutions, with a focus on bureaucracy and regulation.

J.D. Rackey

J. D. Rackey

Rackey is an associate director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Structural Democracy Project. He previously served on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.

Molly Reynolds

Molly Reynolds

Reynolds is the vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, where she studies Congress, with an emphasis on how congressional rules and procedure affect policymaking.

Jeffrey Rogatz

Jeffrey Rogatz

Rogatz, a member of the Miller Center Foundation Board, is a managing director in Baird’s Real Estate Investment Banking group. He was previously president of Ridgeway Capital LLC and chief financial officer of Brandywine Realty Trust.

mara rudman

Mara Rudman

Rudman is a practitioner senior fellow at the Miller Center. She served as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs in the Clinton and Obama administrations and as chief counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Eric Schickler

Eric Schickler

Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Phil Schiliro

Phil Schiliro

Under President Barack Obama, Schiliro held senior roles, including director of legislative affairs. He was the Democratic staff director for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is the co-founder of Co-Equal.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Tenpas, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, is director of the Initiative on Improving Interbranch Relations and Government and a visiting fellow with Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Louisa Terrell

Louisa Terrell

Terrell, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, served as assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs under President Joe Biden. She was a senior advisor to the Harris-Walz campaign.

Nick Troiano

Nick Troiano

Troiano is the executive director of Unite America, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to foster a more functional and representative government. When he ran for Congress in 2014, he drew national attention as the youngest candidate that cycle.

Craig Volden

Craig Volden

Volden is a professor of public policy and politics at the University of Virginia, with appointments in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the UVA department of politics. He is founder and codirector of the Center for Effective Lawmaking.

Philip Wallach

Philip Wallach

Wallach is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies America’s separation of powers. He was previously a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a fellow with the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.

Shalanda Young

Shalanda Young

Young, the Miller Center’s Randolph P. Compton Professor of World Politics, served as director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget during the Biden administration—the first Black woman to lead the agency.