Dr. James G. Apple Chairman of the Board, President, and founding Director. Former Chief, Interjudicial Affairs Office, United States Federal Judicial Center. During his nine and one-half year tenure at the Federal Judicial Center Dr. Apple directed or co-directed more than 50 seminars and hundreds of briefings for judges and legal officials from 152 countries, in addition to his other duties. He has published numerous articles for both U.S. and foreign publications on judges, courts and court administration and has lectured on those subjects at judicial training institutes and universities outside the United States. Before coming to Washington in 1990 Dr. Apple was a practicing trial lawyer in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for 25 years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the American Law Institute, and holds the rank of Advocate with the American Board of Trial Advocates.He has a B.A. with Honors in Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia, a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was an editor of the Virginia Law Review, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in international and comparative law from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He was awarded first prize in the British Red Cross national essay competition on international humanitarian law in 1990, for which he received short residential fellowships at the Henri Dunant Institute in Geneva, Switzerland and the Institute of International Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. He is co-author of A Primer on the Civil Law System and Manual for Cooperation Between State and Federal Courts, both published by the Federal Judicial Center.

Judge John W. Kern III Vice Chairman of the Board and Director - Senior Judge, Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Judge Kern is the founder and Chairman of the Judiciary Leadership Development Council, a Washington. D.C. non-profit organization devoted to judicial education. He was Dean of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada from 1984-1987. He is the also the founder and Director of the annual Harold R. Medina Seminar on Science and the Humanities for State and Federal Judges at Princeton University. He was appointed a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 1968. Before assuming his duties on the bench, Judge Kern was an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, a Section Chief in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, and Director of the Executive Office of United States Attorneys in the Justice Department. Judge Kern has a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a J.D. degree from Harvard University.

Judge Arline Pacht Secretary and Director - Judge Pacht began her judicial career in 1979, when she was appointed an administrative law judge for the U.S. Department of Labor. Prior to her judicial appointment she was a public defender in the District of Columbia and then served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1980 she transferred to the National Labor Relations Board, where she sat for 18 years. In 1998 she retired from the NLRB to become President and Executive Director of the International Association of Women Judges, which she founded. During her 10 years of leadership with that organization the membership grew from 850 judges in 15 countries to 4,000 members in 77 countries. Judge Pacht retired as a Director of the IAWJ in 2002. She is a graduate of the George Washington University National Law Center, where she ranked first in her class.

John E. Howell Esq. Treasurer and Director, Of Counsel, Sperduto Law Firm, Washington, D.C.; former Chief, Article III Judges Division, Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Before becoming a senior staff member of the Administrative Office, Mr. Howell was a Colonel in the United States Air Force and Chief Trial Judge in the Air Force Judge Advocate General's office. He was a trial judge in the Air Force for 12 years. He is the recipient of the Legion of Merit award, the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster. Mr. Howell received a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

Dr. Kelly Dawn Askin Director,Senior Legal Officer, International Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative. Dr. Askin formerly served as Director of the International Criminal Justice Institute in Washington. She has been a legal advisor/consultant to Chambers, Registry and Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Appeals Chamber for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She has been a Fellow at the Yale Law School and is currently a Fulbright Global Scholar, She has lectured or served as a visiting scholar at Notre Dame Law School, American University's Washington College of Law and Harvard University. She has been a co-lecturer in a course at the Yale Law School on international courts. Dr. Askin has published four books and numerous law review articles on various aspects of international law, international humanitarian law and international courts and tribunals. In addition to her bachelor's and law degrees, she has a Ph.D. in law from the University of Melbourne in Australia

Gerald J. Mossinghoff Esq. Director, Senior Counsel, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier, & Neustadt, Arlington Virginia; former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks. Mr. Mossinghoff was U.S. Ambassador to the Diplomatic Conference on the Revision of the Paris Convention, and Chairman of the General Assembly of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Association. Before assuming his present position, he was President of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Mr. Mossinghof was the recipient of the Jefferson Award, the highest honor which can be bestowed upon a lawyer practicing intellectual property law in the United States. He has a B.S. degree in engineering from St. Louis University and a J.D. degree with honors from the George Washington University Law School, where he was on the editorial staff of the George Washington Law Review.

Dr. Charlotte Ku Director, Immediate Past Executive Director, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C. Before joining the staff of the ASIL in 1990, Dr. Ku was Visiting Professor of the Johns Hopkins University Center for International Studies in Nanjing, China, and an Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. She has been a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Alan Cranston and a research assistant in the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations. She has written and published extensively on a variety of international law topics and is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and Global Governance. She is currently Chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations System. Dr. Ku received a B.A. degree magna cum laude from the American University School of International Service and M.A., M.A.L.D., and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Judge Paul Magnuson Director - United States District Judge, District of Minnesota. Judge Magnuson is former Chief Judge of his District Court. He is a past Chairman of the International Judicial Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, a position he held from 1997 to 2003. He is also pas Chairman of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System ((1993-1996). He served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Judges Association from 1994 to 2003. He has also been a member of the Federal Judicial Center Advisory Committee on District Judges Education and the Advisory Board of the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (CEELI) of the American Bar Association. Judge Magnuson was appointed a United States District Judge in 1981. He has held numerous academic positions and has lectured widely in many countries around the world. Judge Magnuson received his B.A. degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1959 and his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law in 1963.

Chief Judge B. Paul Cotter (retired), Director, Vice President, Judiciary Leadership Development Council and Executive Director, Worldwide Judiciary Center. Judge Cotter was for 19 years Chief Administrative Judge of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Previously he was Chief Judge of the Housing and Urban Development Board of Contract Appeals, and a trial lawyer in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While Chief Judge of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he presided over the construction of one of the first fully automated courtrooms in the United States. He has published and lectured in the United States and in other countries on court automation and complex litigation management. He is a past trustee of the American Inns of Court, a founder and past president of the Prettyman/Leventhal American Inn of Court, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a Life Member of the American Law Institute. The American Inns of Court Foundation presented him with the A. Sherman Christensen Award for his service to the American Inns of Court. Judge Cotter received his B.A. degree from Princeton University and his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a former law clerk to Judge John L. Smith, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Director - United States District Judge, District of the District of Columbia (retired). Judge Jackson served as a federal trial judge in Washington for 22 years, having been appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan. Prior to his judicial appointment he engaged in the private practice of law in the District of Columbia, specializing in general civil litigation. He was a line officer in the United States Navy prior to entering law practice. During his tenure as a trial judge, Judge Jackson presided over hundreds of criminal and civil trials. He was the presiding judge in the Microsoft anti-trust case. He was Chairman of the Committee on the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1991 to 1994 and a member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Judiciary Building from 1986 to 1992. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and of the American Bar Foundation, and for sixteen years was a Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law Center. Judge Jackson received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College and an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School.

Ms. Lore Starr Director - Assistant Vice-President for Marketing, Meridian International Center. Ms Starr has worked for over twenty years at Meridian International, designing and implementing cultural exchange programs. She has specialized in exchange programs from Western and Eastern Europe as well as Russia and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Ms. Starr received a BA Degree from the University of Heidelberg. She is fluent in German and has a working knowledge of French and Russian. She has lived in Yugoslavia, Austria, Germany, England, and France, and spent four years in the former USSR, where she worked as an English teacher in the German Diplomatic School. She has traveled extensively through Western and Eastern Europe, the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, and Morocco, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Professor Jon B. Gould Director - Mr. Gould is the Director of the Center for Justice, Law, and Society at George Mason University, where he is a faculty member in the Department of Administration of Justice (ADJ) and the School of Law. From 1999-2005, he was assistant director of ADJ, and in 2005-06 he served as the program's acting director. Professor Gould's research interests are in law and justice, with an emphasis on civil rights and liberties, judicial administration, evaluation of justice functions, and popular construction of law. He has published two books and more than 20 articles on such subjects as wrongful convictions, hate speech, police conformance with the Constitution, judicial treatment of race and gender, and court security. His book, Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation (University of Chicago press), was a co-winner of the 2006 Herbert Jacob award for the best book in law and society. Before joining George Mason University, Professor Gould practiced law with a Washington, D.C. firm, helped to direct a human rights institute, served as chief of staff for a college president, and worked on the national staff of two presidential campaigns. He continues to consult both domestically and abroad for governments and non-governmental organizations alike and is also chair of the Innocence Commission for Virginia. Professor Gould also serves on the board of the American Judicature Society and is on the editorial boards of two academic journals. During the 2006-07 term, he was a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow.

Judge Joan Zeldon Director- -Presiding Judge, Civil Division, Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She joined that court in 1990 and has sat in the Family, Criminal and Civil Divisions of the Superior Court. Prior to her judicial appointment she was a member of the law firm of Proskauer, Rose, Goettz and Mendelsohn, working in the firm's Labor Department, first in the New York City office and then in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Prior to law practice Judge Zeldon worked for the Columbia University Legislative Drafting Research Fund and later served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York. Since her appointment as a judge she was appointed by the Mayor of Washington, D.C. to serve as a Commissioner of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. In 2005 she was elected to the NCCUSL Executive Committee. Judge Zeldon receive a B.S. degree magna cum laude from Smith College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She attended graduate school at Harvard University and the George Washington University Law School, where she served on the George Washington University Law Review, and received her J.D. degree from New York University Law School.

Roderick R. McKelvie Esq.Director - Partner, Covington & Burling law firm, Washington, D.C. From 1992 to 2002, he served as a United States District Court Judge for the District of Delaware. During those 10 years, he presided over more than 200 patent infringement cases, including more than 30 patent infringement trials. While on the bench and since his resignation he has worked to improve the procedures for presenting complex cases to juries, including having developed model jury instructions for patent infringement cases and the Federal Judicial Center's video for jurors, An Introduction to the Patent System. Judge McKelvie has handled intellectual property and commercial matters at the trial and appellate level, having been lead counsel in over 20 jury trials. Judge McKelvie is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University School of Law, teaching a course in patent infringement litigation. He is a former President of the Richard S. Rodney Inn of Court, a founding member and former President of the Delaware Bankruptcy Inn of Court, and is currently President of the Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court. He is Co-Chair of the National Academies' Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Related Inventions. He is also currently a member of the intellectual property advisory committees at the University of Maryland School of Law and for the District Courts for the District of Delaware and the Western District of Pennsylvania. He has been named one of the top intellectual property lawyers in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. He received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1968 and a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1973. He was a law clerk to Judge Caleb R. Layton, III, a judge on the District Court for the District of Delaware.

Judge Mary McGowan Davis (ret.) Director - Judge Davis is currently a Visiting Attorney at Legal Momentum Advancing Women's Rights (formerly the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), where she is presently involved in efforts to educate American judges as to the relevance of international and human rights law. For much of the past year (Feb., 2004-April, 2005), Ms. Davis has been the International Kathyrn Wadia Fellow in Afghanistan's first full-service public defender office, Legal Aid Afghanistan ("LAA"). In addition to her work in rebuilding the local justice system in Afghanistan, Judge Davis has been involved in a variety of matters related to transitional justice.She has traveled to Sierra Leone (2002), and Cambodia (2003-2004) in connection with projects related to the establishment of special courts to try war criminals in those countries, and has been a frequent visitor to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, as a consultant to the International Peace and Justice Project, Trinity College Dublin, and as a participant in trial advocacy training programs for prosecutors at the Tribunal. From June-August, 2005, she taught International Criminal Law to students participating in Seton Hall University Law School's Summer Program at the American University in Cairo. Judge Davis has twenty-five years experience in the criminal justice arena in New York, most recently as a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York (1986-1990) and as an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Criminal Term (1991-1998). Before her appointment to the bench, she worked as a Staff Attorney at the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the Legal Aid Society (1974-7) and spent eight years as an Assistant U. S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York (1978-86). During her tenure in the U. S. Attorney's Office, she served first as Deputy, then as Chief, of the Appeals Division. A graduate of Wellesley College, Ms. Davis was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal before obtaining M.A. and J.D. degrees from Columbia University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the International Commission of Jurists and the Managerial Board of the International Association of Women Judges.

Judge Mary A.G.Terrell Director - Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Judge Terrell was appointed to the Superior Court Bench in 1997. She is a former Peace Corps volun-teer, serving in India. She has served as an Assistant United States Attorney. She was also head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation/RTC Legal Outreach Program for Minority and Women and a founding member of the National Political Congress of Black Women. She is Past President of the Washington Bar Association Judicial Council and a former member of the D.C. Advisory Committee on Sentencing. She is a member of the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame So-ciety, African American Women in the Law National Planning Committee and International Who's Who of Professionals. She is also the founder of several schools that assist inner city children, including the Colin Powell International Public Charter School. In April, 2000 the Coa-lition of 100 Black Women presented Judge Terrell with the Ebone Image Ward fro Government Service. In March 1998 she was inducted into the D.C. Women Hall of Fame. She has been active in international judicial training in the areas of alternative dispute resolution and judicial assessment for several countries in Africa. Judge Terrell has a B.A. degree from Howard Univer-sity, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Antioch College in Ohio, and a law degree from George-town University Law Cener.

Judge Marvin J. Garbis Director - Senior Judge, United States District Court, District of Mary-land. Judge Garbis entered into his judicial duties on October 25, 1989. Prior to his judicial ap-pointment he was in the private practice of law in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. He wa a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1962-1967. He received hi Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from Johns Hopkins University, a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, and an Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

Judge Russell F. Canan Director. Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Prior to assuming his judicial duties on the Superior Court in 1993, Judge Canan was in the private prac-tice of Law in Washington, D.C., specializing in litigation in criminal defense and civil rights fields. In 1983 and part of 1984 he helped establish the Southern Center for Human Rights in At-lanta, Georgia. Judge Canan serves as the Chairperson of the Judicial Education Committee of the Superior Court and Chairperson of the Court Rules Subcommittee of the Criminal Advisory Rules Committee. He also serves on the Committee for Appointment and Retention of Magis-trate Judges. Judge Canan has served as Adjunct Professor of Law at the Antioch School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University School of Law, and the Washington College of Law at American University. He has been an instructor at the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshops, and has lectured widely before the NAACP Legal De-fense Fund, Amnesty International and the American Bar Association. Judge Canan received his law degree from Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. and served as law clerk to Judge-John D. Fauntleroy of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.