Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation   (Foundation)
Formation	1942
Headquarters	Wisconsin, USA
Sponsor of	Charter School Growth Fund, Partners Advancing Values in Education, Encounter for Culture and Education, Hudson Institute, American Civil Rights Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Marquette University, National Strategy Information Center, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Institute for Educational Advancemen, Freedom House, Ethics and Public Policy Center, American Tort Reform Foundation, Institute for American Value, Philanthropy Roundtable, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Cato Institute, CO2 Coalition, Daily Caller, Duke University, Marquette University, Center for Security Policy, American Foreign Policy Council, Middle East Media Research Institute

Michael Grebe "Money Badger" (Source: One Wisconsin Now)

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (LHBF), formerly known as the Allen-Bradley Foundation, was established in 1942, describing itself as "a private, independent grantmaking organization based in Milwaukee." According to the foundation's 1998 Annual Report and a 2011 report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation gives away more than $30 million per year. In November 2013, One Wisconsin Now and the Center for Media and Democracy reported that the Bradley Foundation had given over $500 million to conservative "public-policy experiments" since 2000.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "from 2001 to 2009, it [Bradley] doled out nearly as much money as the seven Koch and Scaife foundations combined."

History

Harry Bradley was one of the original charter members of the far right-wing John Birch Society, along with another Birch Society board member, Fred Koch, the father of Koch Industries' billionaire brothers and owners, Charles and David Koch. "Bradley was also a keen supporter of the Manion Forum, whose followers believed that social spending in America was part of a secret Russian plot to bankrupt the United States," Jane Mayer writes in Dark Money.

In the same book, Mayer details that, "The event that multiplied the Bradley Foundation's assets by a factor of twenty almost overnight, transforming it into a major political force, was the 1985 business takeover in which Rockwell International, then America's largest defense contractor, bought the Allen-Bradley company, a Milwaukee electronics manufacturer, for $1.65 billion in cash. The deal created an instant windfall for the Bradley family's private foundation, which held a stake in the company. Its assets leaped from $14 million to some $290 million.

Changes to Mission Statement

Jane Mayer in her book Dark Money discusses how the mission statement of the Bradley Foundation changed over time,

"Originally, the foundation's purpose was to help aid needy employees and the residents of Milwaukee, as well as prevent cruelty to animals...After (Mike) Joyce took over the foundation in 1985, however, a new mission statement was drafted, directing its grants to the support of "limited, competent government," "a dynamic marketplace," and "vigorous defense."'

News and Controversies

Board Member Cleta Mitchell Forced to Resign from Job After Advising Trump in Challenging Election

Bradley board member Cleta Mitchell was one of several lawyers on a January 2, 2021 call in which Donald Trump pressured Georgia's Secretary to State to "'find' enough votes to overturn his defeat". Mitchell had "been advising Mr. Trump despite a policy at her firm, Foley & Lardner, that none of its lawyers should represent clients involved in relitigating the presidential election." Mitchell resigned from Foley & Lardner after fallout from the call.

Ties to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

Governor Scott Walker signed a right-to-work bill into law on March 9, 2015, with some help from the Bradley Foundation. The foundation "doled out over $8 million in 2012 and 2013, the latest years for which information available, to support the operations of a web of nearly three dozen groups promoting right to work laws and radical privatization policies that empower the wealthy and corporate CEOs at the expense of the middle class," according to a report by One Wisconsin Now published on February 25, 2015. "The Bradley Foundation, having nearly half a billion dollars in assets, regularly hands out $30-40 million a year, making it perhaps the largest right-wing funding foundation in America. Groups operating in Wisconsin, including the MacIver Institute, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, Media Trackers and the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Foundation, took in excess of $2.9 million.

Walker proposed his 2013-2015 budget, which contained plans to massively expand Wisconsin's school voucher program, in February 2013. Congruent with the efforts of the Bradley Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), this would provide state subsidies for students to leave public schools in exchange for private schools, effectively transferring substantial government public education funding to the private sector.

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

The MacIver Institute (a member of the ALEC-tied State Policy Network) and the Koch-founded and -funded Americans for Prosperity spent millions defending Walker in his 2011 recall election. Americans for Prosperity received $600,000 from the Bradley Foundation from 2004 to 2010.

Within days of Walker's 2010 election, he met the board and senior staff of the Bradley Foundation at Milwaukee's elite Bacchus Restaurant. Two weeks later, the Bradley-funded MacIver Institute published an editorial calling for Walker and the legislature to end collective bargaining for public employees and attack private unions by making Wisconsin a "Right to Work" state.

The MacIver Institute received $360,000 from Bradley in its first three years of existence, and ran a series of pro-Walker "It's Working!" ads with Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which has also been funded by Bradley.

In addition to the ties to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker noted above, Bradley Foundation CEO Michael Grebe personally conducted interviews at the cabinet level of the Walker administration and served as chair of Walker's campaign, the "Friends of Scott Walker."

In 2010, the MacIver Institute, which is funded by the Bradley Foundation, posted an op-ed pushing for a repeal of collective bargaining rights. The article read: "Two simple but fundamental steps to kick start the Wisconsin economy and get our state budget mess resolved would be to repeal collective bargaining for public employees and to make Wisconsin a right to work state, giving private sector workers the choice of whether they want to pay union dues in their workplace."

Bradley Foundation Provides Financial Backing to Groups Fighting Scott Walker's John Doe Probe

The Center for Media and Democracy reported in June 2014, "The Bradley Foundation and its directors have given nearly $18 million to groups that are now connected to individuals involved in the John Doe investigation and the campaign against it. Prosecutors in that high-profile probe allege that Scott Walker is at the center of a "criminal scheme" to illegally coordinate fundraising with Wisconsin Club for Growth and other nonprofit "dark money" groups during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections."

Funding of Billboards

In 2010 and 2012, billboards went up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a few cities in Ohio that displayed the message "Voter Fraud is a Felony!"

The original billboards in 2010 had a picture of a black man behind bars, but the billboards were changed after public outcry.

Shortly before the 2012 election, public pressure mounted in Milwaukee demanding that the funders of the billboards be disclosed, and that the billboards come down.

Clear Channel Outdoor, the advertising company that owned the billboard space, finally agreed to take the billboards down.

One Wisconsin Now, a progressive advocacy organization, later revealed that the Einhorn Family Foundation was behind the billboards, and a few days later Michael Grebe, the president and CEO of the Bradley Foundation, confirmed to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that it had provided $10,000 to the Einhorn Family Foundation in 2010 that had in fact been used for billboards.

Funding Islamophobia in the United States

LHBF has funded various organizations and individuals contributing to an anti-Islamic hysteria in the United States, according to research by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Between 2001 and 2012, LHBF contributed $6,540,000 to various Islamophobic groups, including the Center for Security Policy, the Middle East Forum, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Contributions of the Bradley Foundation

In 2013, a total of $33,988,318 in grants was awarded.

According to Right Wing Watch, the Bradley Foundation has given grants to highly controversial individuals:

"Bradley has supported and in some cases, had to defend controversial right-wing recipients of their grants, particularly Charles Murray and Dinesh D'Souza.

"Charles Murray - Murray, author of "The Bell Curve," which argues that intelligence is predicated on race, and "Losing Ground," whose thesis is that social programs should be abolished. Murray's work was so controversial and objectionable that the right-wing Manhattan Institute, supported by Bradley and for which he worked, asked him to leave. However, the Bradley Foundation stood by him because Murray, according to former Bradley President Michael Joyce, "is one of the foremost social thinkers in the country." Bradley extended Murray's $100,000 per year grant when he went to the American Enterprise Institute.

"Dinesh D'Souza - D'Souza, in his book, The End of Racism, attempts to absolve Whites from discrimination against Blacks during slavery, claiming that Blacks were too uncivilized to be a part of society anyway."

Ties to DonorsTrust, a Koch Conduit

DonorsTrust is considered a "donor-advised fund," which means that it divides its funds into separate accounts for individual donors, who then recommend disbursements from the accounts to different non-profits. Funds like DonorsTrust are not uncommon in the non-profit sector, but they do cloak the identity of the original donors because the funds are typically distributed in the name of DonorsTrust rather than the original donors. Very little was known about DonorsTrust until late 2012 and early 2013, when the Guardian and others published extensive reports on what Mother Jones called "the dark-money ATM of the conservative movement."

Americans for Prosperity, an organization founded and funded by the Koch brothers, received nearly $9.5 million from DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund from 2010 to 2012.

DonorsTrust Funding

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation contributed $2,969,292 to DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund between 2009 and 2013 (see links to the foundation's IRS forms 990 below).

A report by the Center for Public Integrity exposes a number of DonorsTrust funders, many of which have ties to the Koch brothers. One of the most prominent funders is the Knowledge and Progress Fund, a Charles Koch-run organization and one of the group's largest known contributors, having donated nearly $9 million from 2005 to 2012. Other contributors known to have donated at least $1 million to DonorsTrust include the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, Donald & Paula Smith Family Foundation, Searle Freedom Trust, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation.

Since its inception in 1999, DonorsTrust has been used by conservative foundations and individuals to discretely funnel nearly $400 million to like-minded think tanks and media outlets. According to the organization's tax documents, in 2011, DonorsTrust contributed a total of $86 million to conservative organizations. Many recipients had ties to the State Policy Network (SPN), a wide collection of conservative state-based think tanks and media organizations that focus on shaping public policy and opinion. In 2013, the Center for Media and Democracy released a special report on SPN. Those who received DonorsTrust funding included media outlets such as the Franklin Center and the Lucy Burns Institute, as well as think tanks such as SPN itself, the Heartland Institute, Illinois Policy Institute, Independence Institute, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, South Carolina Policy Council, American Legislative Exchange Council, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and the Cascade Policy Institute.

Funding Rick Berman's Front Groups

In the latest annual report posted to its website, the Bradley Foundation said it gave a total of $675,000 to Richard Berman's PR front groups in 2013: the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF, which changed its name to the Center for Organizational Research and Education (CORE) in early 2014), the Center for Union Facts, and the Employment Policies Institute.

The Bradley Foundation gave at least $375,000 (from 2009 to 2012) to one of Berman's PR front groups, CCF, which runs HumaneWatch.org, the Environmental Policy Alliance, and the Humane Society for Shelter Pets, ConsumerFreedom.com, ActivistCash.com, CSPIscam.com (attacking the Center for Science in the Public Interest), Animal-Scam.com, FishScam.com, ObesityMyths.com, Sweetscam.com, PhysiciansScam.com and PetaKillsAnimals.com.

CCF/CORE actively opposes smoking bans and lowering the legal blood-alcohol level, while targeting studies on the dangers of meat and dairy, processed food, fatty foods, soda pop, pharmaceuticals, animal testing, overfishing, and pesticides. It is reportedly primarily funded by corporate restaurants and the food industry.

The Bradley Foundation gave CCF $200,000 in 2009, $50,000 in 2010, $125,000 in 2012, and $250,000 in 2013. See Contributions of the Bradley Foundation for more.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Documents $350 Million Spent Over Ten Years

A 2011 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article outlined how the Bradley Foundation spent more than $350 million over ten years, including $234 million on conservative causes and $79 million on higher education to universities around the United States.

The report found that 38 percent of the $350 million was spent in Wisconsin, 32 percent was spent in Milwaukee and only 6 percent for the rest of Wisconsin. 23 percent was spent in Washington, D.C., and the rest spread around the rest of the country.

The top 30 grant recipients received a combined $155 million, including:

• Charter School Growth Fund - $16.525 million
• Partners Advancing Values in Education (PAVE) - $12.8 million
• Encounter for Culture and Education - $10.75 million
• Hudson Institute - $7 million
• American Civil Rights Institute - $6.775 million
• American Enterprise Institute - $5.664 million
• Marquette University = $5.54 million
• National Strategy Information Center - $4.393 million
• David Horowitz Freedom Center - $3.725 million
• Wisconsin Policy Research Institute - $3.61 million
• Heritage Foundation - $3.38 million
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace - $3.37 million
• Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies - $3.25 million
• University of Chicago - $3.15 million
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research - $3.15 million
• Institute for Educational Advancement - $3.06 million
• Freedom House - $3.06 million
• Ethics and Public Policy Center - $2.94 million
• American Tort Reform Foundation - $2.9 million
• Institute for American Values - $2.565 million
• Philanthropy Roundtable - $2.33 million
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute - $2.1 million

Funding the American Legislative Exchange Council

The Bradley Foundation gave $70,000 in 2012 and $100,000 in 2013 to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) "to support the Center for State Fiscal Reform," the ALEC project that publishes the annual "Rich States Poor States" report.

According to the foundation's 990 tax forms, the Bradley Foundation gave $270,000 in contributions to ALEC between 2009 and 2011.

The foundation gave $145,000 to ALEC in 2009 and 2010 for initiatives including ALEC's "Budget Reform Education Project," the "Donor Freedom Project," and the "Budget Reform and Transparency Project," according to its annual reports. ALEC also thanked the Bradley Foundation in its 2011 "State Budget Reform Toolkit" for funding the publication, which promotes a number of templates that have been embraced by ALEC members in Wisconsin.

Among other things, Bradley has focused its funding efforts on programs to divert tax dollars from public schools to private entities via "voucher" programs that undermine public education. Bradley poured $20 million into the effort to bring so-called "school choice" vouchers to Milwaukee, and has spent countless sums supporting groups that aim to expand the program across Wisconsin, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. These anti-public education initiatives are also advanced by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Funding School Choice Expansion

Graphic by One Wisconsin Now Tracing Bradley School Choice Funding

A report released by non-profit activist group One Wisconsin Now in April 2013 details the Bradley Foundation's massive efforts to funnel money into school privatization programs nationwide. Since 2001, the Bradley Foundation has spent over $31 million "supporting organizations promoting education privatization, academics providing favorable pro-privatization pseudo-science, media personalities promoting the privatization agenda and lobbying organizations advocating for privatization legislation," according to the report.

Michael Grebe, CEO of the Bradley Foundation, has also served as campaign co-chair for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who has worked to expand voucher school funding in Wisconsin by 32 percent. Grebe led transition efforts and chaired Walker's campaign committee for the 2012 recall election. The report estimates that between 2014 and 2015, $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars will go toward private voucher schools in Wisconsin.

Funding for Charter Schools

The Bradley Foundation is a top funder for groups affiliated with charter schools nationwide. Its top recipient is the Charter School Growth Fund, a group that provides start up money for new charter school nationwide.

The second largest recipient for the group was Partners Advancing Values in Education, another charter school advocacy group.

Bradley Foundation Provided Financial Backing for The Bell Curve

The Bradley Foundation paid $1 million to Charles Murray to co-write the hugely controversial book The Bell Curve with Richard Herrnstein. Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at Marquette University Robert Lowe said of the book, "The Bell Curve is a smoking gun. It maintains that the poor—including the majority of African Americans—are generally incapable of benefiting from education...." The book argued for eliminating welfare and reducing immigration to raise the IQ in the country. In addition to these policy recommendations, the authors also argued against affirmative action. The Bell Curve received a lot of public and scholarly attention, mainly due to the fact that it was not peer reviewed. Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting commented on the media response, "The Bell Curve was accorded attention totally disproportionate to the merits of the book or the novelty of its thesis...While many of these discussions included sharp criticisms of the book, media accounts showed a disturbing tendency to accept Murray and Herrnstein’s premises and evidence even while debating their conclusions. Naureckas criticized the media for this as he argued that the "book was part of a campaign to justify racism."

Barbara Miner writes of the Bradley Foundation's involvement in the project,

"The foundation was well aware of the explosive nature of Murray's research. In 1989, when he started collaborating with Richard Herrnstein on research into intelligence and genetics, the Manhattan Institute decided it would be best if Murray left. But Bradley, which had funded Murray at the Manhattan Institute, was willing to continue his $100,000 annual grant at his new home with the American Enterprise Institute."

Funding the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and the MacIver Institute

From 2008 to 2012, the MacIver Institute, a relatively new and increasingly influential think tank that is also a State Policy Network member (Wisconsin is one of few states to have two SPN member think tanks, but all 50 states have at least one), received $635,000 from the Bradley Foundation. According to One Wisconsin Now and CMD, in 2012, "SPN awarded the MacIver Institute a 'Network Award' for 'its excellent work in defense of free markets.'

The Bradley Foundation gave the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI), (also a member State Policy Network), a $2.8 million start-up grant in 1987, and by 2010 it had given the institute a total of $16.5 million. The Bradley Foundation’s Michael Joyce launched his attack on Wisconsin progressivism in the Winter 1994 issue of Wisconsin Interest, a publication of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

In 2013, the Bradley Foundation gave $375,000 to WPRI "to support general operations."

Voter ID and Affirmative Action trials

Ed Blum of the Project on Fair Representation organized the challenges in both the Shelby County v. Holder and Fisher v. University of Texas Supreme Court cases with the financial support of the Bradley Foundation.

In the Shelby County case, "the Court effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act, which had required states with a history of legalized racial discrimination to get pre-approval from the federal government before making changes to either voting laws or procedures".

Blum's efforts were less sucessful in the Fisher v. University of Texas case, which challenged university affirmative action programs and was deferred to a lower court. The Bradley Foundation used DonorsTrust to funnel at least $100,000 to The Project on Fair Representation for legal fees.

The Bradley Foundation has a history of promoting voter ID laws.

In 2012, the Foundation paid for billboard ads stating "Voter fraud is a felony!" placed only in neighborhoods of color.

The Bradley Foundation also funded the employment and legal representation of James O'Keefe "whose heavily-edited undercover videos hyped voter fraud allegations and helped take down ACORN, which had helped millions of low-income people register to vote".

True the Vote, a vote-monitoring organization accused of voter suppression, received $35,000 from the Bradley Foundation in 2011.

The Foundation also funds conservative think tank groups including the Center for Individual Rights, the American Civil Rights Institute, and the Center for Equal Opportunity.

Public Endorsements

"The reason that I am so happy that my friend Mike Grebe is here and Mike Joyce and others from the Bradley Foundation is because 'Foundation America' must be a part of the revitalization of our communities as well. And the Bradley Foundation has always been willing to see different solutions. They have been willing to challenge the status quo. They say where we find failure, something else must occur. And the foundation not only has been kind and generous with its donations, the foundation also has been willing to help people think anew, and I appreciate you all coming. I am honored you're here and thanks for your good work." – President George W. Bush, speaking at the Bradley Foundation-supported Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, Milwaukee, July 2002.

Infiltration of Academic Institutions

According to People for the American Way:

"Bradley has made right-wing inroads in academia by establishing chairmanship positions, undergraduate and graduate programs, fellowships, and whole departments at many prestigious universities including: Boston College, Boston University, Bowling Green State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Catholic University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, George Mason University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Kenyon College, Marquette University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, New York University, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California- Berkeley, University of California- Los Angeles, University of California- San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, and Washington University- St. Louis."

Prize Recipients

The Bradley Foundation website awards up to four "Bradley Prizes" of $250,000 each annually to what it calls "innovative thinkers and practitioners whose achievements strengthen the legacy of the Bradley brothers and the ideas to which they were committed":

2022

• Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University
• Wilfred M. McClay, Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College
• Chen Guangcheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Human Rights at the Catholic University of America

2021

• Amity Shlaes, author and chairwoman of the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation
• Roger Ream, president, The Fund for American Studies
• Mollie Hemingway, senior editor of the The Federalist and senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College

2020 No prizes were awarded in 2020.

2019

• Roger Kimball, Editor and Publisher, The New Criterion and President and Publisher, Encounter Books
• James Grant, Financial Journalist and Historian and Founder and Editor at Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
• Judge Janice Rogers Brown, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (retired)

2018

• Jason Riley, Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal
• Charles R. Kesler, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College
• Allen C. Guelzo, Director of Civil War Era Studies and the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College

2017

• Walter Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University
• Peter Berkowitz Political scientist and the Tad and Diane Taube Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution
• Philip Hamburger, Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
• Christopher DeMuth, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute

2016

• Charles Murray, author and W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute
• Andrew Roberts, British historian, honorary senior scholar at Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department at King's College, London
• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, religious leader, 2016 Templeton Prize winner, and Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor at New York University
• Gary Sinise, actor, humanitarian, advocate for America's service members, and founder of the Gary Sinise Foundation

2015

• Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College
• James W. Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at The Harvard Kennedy School., a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
• General Jack Keane, president of GSI Consulting

2014

• Kimberley Strassel, member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal
• Darcy Olsen, President of the Goldwater Institute
• Randy E. Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown University Law Center and founder and director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution
• Terry Teachout, drama critic and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and critic-at-large of Commentary Magazine

2013

• Yuval Levin, founding Editor of National Affairs journal and Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
• Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of FOX News as well as Chairman of Fox Television Stations
• Paul D. Clement, Partner at Bancroft PLLC and 43rd Solicitor General of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008
• Mitch Daniels, member of Purdue Board of Trustees, former Governor of the State of Indiana, former CEO of the Hudson Institute, and former President of Eli Lilly and Company's North American Pharmaceutical Operations

2012

• Nicholas Eberstadt, Chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., Senior Advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle, Commissioner on the U.S. Key National Indicators Council, and member of the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum
• Edwin J. Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Visitors at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy
• Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation and Chairman of Heritage's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
• William H. Mellor, Co-founder, President, and General Counsel of the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia

2011

• Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida and Founder, Chairman, and President of the Foundation for Excellence in Education
• Richard A. Epstein, Professor at New York University School of Law, Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School
• Harvey C. Mansfield, Professor of Government at Harvard University and Fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Allan H. Meltzer, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business

2010

• Michael Barone, Political Analyst for The Washington Examiner, Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and a syndicated columnist and commentator for the Fox News Channel
• John B. Taylor, Professor at Stanford University, Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and Fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
• Bradley A. Smith, Professor at Capital University Law School, Chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, and Fellow at the Goldwater Institute
• Paul Gigot, Vice President and Editorial Page Editor of The Wall Street Journal

2009

• William Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, Washington Post columnist, and FOX News analyst
• Arnold C. Harberger, Professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago, and former President of the American Economic Association, the Western Economic Association, and the Society for Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Martin Gilbert, historian and prolific author
• Founders and Leaders of The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, "an organization of law students, lawyers, and others interested in the law dedicated to advancing an understanding of the principles underlying American law and furthering their application"

2008

• Gary S. Becker, Fellow at Stanford University, Professor at the University of Chicago
• Victor Davis Hanson, Fellow at Stanford University and Hillsdale College and Professor at California State University-Fresno
• Alan Charles Kors, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Foundation for Individual Rights
• Robert L. Woodson, Sr., President of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Washington, D.C.

2007

• Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, co-authors on a number of works. Abigail is the vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Stephan is a history professor at Harvard University.
• John Bolton, Senior Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research in Washington, D.C. and former ambassador and author
• Martin Feldstein, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President of the National Bureau of Economic Research
• James Q. Wilson, Professor at Harvard University, the University of California-Los Angeles, and most recently at Pepperdine University

2006

• Fouad Ajami, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Co-chair of its Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.
• Hernando de Soto, Founder of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, Peru
• Clint Bolick, Director of the Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona
• Shelby Steele, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution who specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action

2005

• George F. Will, syndicated columnist
• Ward Connerly (anti-affirmative action), Founder of American Civil Rights Institute
• Heather McDonald, Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
• Robert P. George, Professor and former presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

2004

• Leon Kass, bioethicist at the University of Chicago, selected by President George W. Bush to chair the 18-member President's Council on Bioethics
• Charles Krauthamer, author and former member of the President's Council on Bioethics
• Thomas Sowell, economist and author
• Mary Ann Glendon, former President of the International Association of Legal Science, and currently serves as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

Board of Directors

As of April 2022:

• James Arthur Pope, Chairman; President, Variety Wholesalers
• Patrick J. English, Vice Chairman; Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Fiduciary Management, Inc.
• James T. Barry III, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Barry Company
• Paul Clement, Distinguished Lecturer in Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Senior Fellow of the Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute
• Terry Considine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AIMCO. Considine is on the national board of the dark money group Club for Growth.
• Curt S. Culver, Chairman, MGIC
• Robert P. George, 2005 Bradley Prize recipient and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
• Richard W. Graber, President and Chief Executive Officer
• Victor Davis Hanson, 2008 Bradley Prize recipient and Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Cleta Mitchell, Partner, Foley & Lardner
• Reid Ribble, Chief Executive Officer, National Roofing Contractors Association

Former Board Members

• Diane M. Hendricks, Chairman, ABC Supply Co. and Hendricks Holding Co. Hendricks is one of the largest campaign contributors to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
• Michael W. Grebe, President & CEO. Formerly served as controversial Governor Scott Walker's campaign chair and and on his transition team after he was elected in 2010, and was also state GOP chairman in the late 1980s.
• Shelby Steele, 2006 Bradley Prize recipient, Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
• George F. Will, 2005 Bradley Prize recipient, Columnist, The Washington Post
• Dennis J. Kuester, Chairman
• David V. Uihlein, Jr., Vice Chairman; President, Uihlein-Wilson Architects

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