Hon. Clarine Nardi Riddle (Chair)
Clarine Nardi Riddle is counsel at the law firm of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP where she leads the firm’s Washington, DC office and government affairs practice. She was Connecticut’s 22nd attorney general, and the only woman to date to serve in that role, from 1989–91. She also served as judge of the Connecticut Superior Court, Connecticut’s highest trial court of general jurisdiction, from 1991–93. From 1994 to 2003, she was senior vice president and general counsel of the National Multi Housing Council. Earlier in her career, she served as a counsel at the Indiana Legislative Services Agency, special counsel to the Connecticut Senate Majority Leader Joseph I. Lieberman (I–Conn.), and deputy corporation counsel for the City of New Haven, Connecticut. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in honors mathematics, a juris doctor degree from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and a doctor of humane letters from Saint Joseph College, Hartford, Connecticut. In 1999 she was inducted into the law school’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows.

Richard Albert
Richard Albert is Professor of World Constitutions and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, founding director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, and Co-President of the International Society of Public Law. Currently a member of the Constitutional Reform Committee advising the Government of Jamaica on writing and enacting a new constitution for the country, he has published over 25 books on constitutional democracy, including “Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions” (Oxford University Press). He has held visiting faculty appointments around the world, including at Universitas Airlangga (Indonesia), Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo (Ecuador), Universidad Externado (Colombia), FGV (Brazil), Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai (India), University of Ottawa (Canada), Reichman University (Israel), University of Toronto (Canada), and Yale University. Formerly a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada, Richard Albert holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Harvard.

Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa
Manuel Cepeda Espinosa is President Emeritus of the International Association of Constitutional Law and member of the governing board of Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. From 2013 to 2022 he was one of the agents of Colombia before the International Court of Justice in two delimitation cases initiated by Nicaragua against Colombia. From July 2015 to August 2016, he was part of the negotiating team on transitional justice during the Colombian peace process. He was President of the Constitutional Court of Colombia from 2005 to 2006 and a Justice from 2001 to 2009. He was Dean of the Law School of Universidad de los Andes (1996-2000); Ambassador of Colombia to UNESCO (1993-1995) and to the Helvetic Confederation (1995-1996). He participated in the drafting of the 1991 Colombian Constitution as Presidential Advisor for the Constituent Assembly and Constitutional Drafting for President of the Republic César Gaviria Trujillo (1990-1991); and Presidential Advisor for Legal Affairs for President of the Republic Virgilio Barco Vargas (1987-1990). Justice Cepeda is also the author of several constitutional law books. He graduated magna cum laude from Universidad de los Andes in 1986 and received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1987. In 1993, Justice Cepeda received the Order of Boyacá, in the highest degree of the Great Cross, from the President of the Republic of Colombia.

Hon. David F. Hamilton
In November 2009, Judge Hamilton was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 1994 to 2009, he served as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Indiana, and was that court’s chief judge in 2008–2009. He grew up in southern Indiana, graduated from Haverford College and Yale Law School, and served as a law clerk for Judge Richard D. Cudahy of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 1983–84. He practiced law as an associate and then partner at Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis, and served as counsel to the governor of Indiana from 1989–91.

Hon. Lee H. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton is director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. From 1965 to 1999, he was United States Representative from the 9th District of Indiana. While in Congress, Hamilton’s chairmanships included the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. He also was chairman of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and worked to promote integrity and efficiency in the institution. In addition, he served as vice chair of National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, and co-chair of the Independent Task Force on Immigration and America’s Future. At Indiana University, Hamilton is a professor of practice in the School for Public and Environmental Affairs, a distinguished scholar in the School of Global and International Studies, and co-chair for IU’s International Engagement Advisory Board.  From 1999 through 2010, Hamilton was president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Hamilton is a graduate of DePauw University and the IU Maurer School of Law. He is a member of the Law School’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows.

Brady Harman
Brady Harman is a program director for Southeast Asia at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Prior to joining the National Democratic Institute, he was based in Burma and Thailand, supporting rule of law programming in Burma and advising ethnic actors in the Burmese peace process. Before relocating to Asia, Harman was the Snyder Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. He is an alum of the center: Harman served as the Center’s first senior managing affiliate and created the current JD Fellow program structure. He obtained his JD from the IU Maurer School of Law and MPA from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Lara Kalwinski
Lara Kalwinski is an Associate General Counsel at the MacArthur Foundation. Lara not only has a career in philanthropy, she is also a product of it, by receiving a life-changing four-year full scholarship to any Indiana college as a 1999 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar. Before joining the MacArthur Foundation Lara served as an Assistant General Counsel at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in-house counsel with faith-based organizations, community foundations, humanitarian and development organizations, and public charities.  She has contributed to worldwide conversations on the opportunities and barriers to charitable giving and humanitarian response, including attendance at Chatham House events, Financial Action Task Force Working Group Meetings, and the Global Summit on Community Philanthropy. Recognition of Lara’s community, academic, and professional accomplishments include the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, Nonprofit Organizations Committee, Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award for In-House Counsel, and the Indiana Governor's Award for Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Samantha Lalisan
Samantha Lalisan is a senior attorney at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Office of General Counsel, where she currently supports the International Affairs and Trade team, and previously supported the Strategic Issues team. An alum of the Center, she served as the Center's Managing Fellow and interned at International IDEA's Constitution Building Program in The Hague, Netherlands. She obtained her J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Terry A.M. Mumford
Terry was born and raised in Indianapolis. She completed her undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College in 1970 and received her JD from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1973. Upon graduation, she served in the Indiana University Counsel’s office as Associate Counsel and Special Counsel for Affirmative Action. In 1975, she joined the Indiana Legislative Services Agency as a drafter and then Director of Bill Drafting and Research. From 1987 until her retirement in 2014, Terry was of counsel and then a partner with Ice Miller LLP, where she focused her practice in governmental services and employee benefits (primarily advising state and local pension plans). She took a leave from Ice Miller to serve as Governor Frank O’Bannon’s Legislative Director in 2002 and as the Legislative Counsel for House Speaker Pat Bauer in 2003. Terry was recognized as a Sagamore of the Wabash for her work with Governor O’Bannon. Since her retirement, Terry has served on the Board of Directors of Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis, where she is now Board Member Emerita.

Greg Zoeller
Greg Zoeller is chairman of the World Trade Center Indianapolis. He served as Indiana’s attorney general from 2009-17 alongside Governors Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence. During his tenure, Zoeller served the people of Indiana, focusing on consumer protection, public health, and public safety initiatives. Zoeller concurrently served as the liaison for the National Association of Attorney General to the United States Trade Representative. Previously, Zoeller worked for 10 years in the U.S. Senate and then in the White House with Senator and then-Vice President Dan Quayle. He has also spent more than a decade in private practice as an attorney and consultant with national and international companies. Zoeller attended both Purdue University and Indiana University, earning his law degree from IU Maurer School of Law in 1982 and has served as adjunct professor of law at the IU McKinney School of Law.