Gordon H. Smith, former Republican senator from Oregon, has been president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters since 2009. A graduate of BYU and Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, serving two terms. Among his committee assignments were chairman of the Special Committee on Aging and ranking member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade and Global Competitiveness.
Hannah Clayson Smith is a legal counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, based in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Princeton University and the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU, she has clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. She joined the Becket Fund in 2007 and serves as a member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society International Board and as reunions chair for her Princeton alumni class.
Catherine M. Stokes
Catherine M. Stokes, who retired in 2006 as a deputy director for the Illinois Department of Health, is a graduate of DePaul University in Chicago. She served as vice chairman on the board of trustees of the Inner City Youth Charitable Foundation in Chicago 1990-2006. Since moving to Utah, she is serving on the board of the Utah AIDS Foundation and is now membership chair of the Utah Chapter of the African-American Genealogy & Historical Society.
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