Mark Belnick is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Counsel of Tyco International, Ltd. Before then, he was a partner at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Among other groups, he has represented Smith Barney, American Express Co., and The Coca Cola Company. He served as Deputy Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Iran-Contra Investigation and as Chief Counsel to a committee established by the SEC that restructured the NASDAQ stock market. Mr. Belnick received an A.B. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Mr. Belnick serves on the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School and on the Board of Trustees of Thomas Aquinas College. He was also the founding Director of Cornell University’s Pre-Law Program, with the rank of Visiting Professor of Government from 1999 to 2005. He recently established his own law practice in New York City.
Gerard V. Bradley is the Director of the Witherspoon Institute’s Center on Religion and the Constitution and a Senior Fellow of the Institute. He is a Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and a noted scholar in the fields of constitutional law as well as law and religion, having taught previously at the University of Illinois. Admitted to the New York Bar, he practiced law as an assistant district attorney with the New York County District Attorney’s Office. With Professor John Finnis, he has served as Director of Notre Dame’s Natural Law Institute and as co-editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is President of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Vice-President of the American Public Philosophy Institute, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Cardinal Newman Society, Chair of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group, and a member of the Ramsey Colloquium of the Institute on Religion and Public Life. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Cornell Law School.
Martin Feldman is a United States District Judge (Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals) for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Judge Feldman graduated from Tulane Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Assistant Editor of the Tulane Law Review. Upon graduation, Judge Feldman served for two years as a law clerk at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thereafter, he practiced law in New Orleans. Judge Feldman was appointed to the Fifth Circuit by President Reagan in 1983. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Judicial Center and Chair of the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges. He has lectured in various capacities at the Universities of Cambridge, Syracuse, and Princeton, Amherst College, and elsewhere.
Michael Maibach, a Trustee of the Witherspoon Institute, is President and C.E.O. of the European-American Business Council. He holds several degrees, including a B.A. in International Business at American University and an M.A. in Political Philosophy at Georgetown University. Mr. Maibach has held top positions in several companies, including Vice-President of the Intel Corporation. He has served on advisory councils for Presidents Reagan and Bush, Sr., the U.S. State Department, and other such bodies, advising on matters of trade, economics, and industry. Mr. Maibach has published over seventy essays and is currently a guest columnist for the Alexandria Times (Virginia) newspaper. He resides in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.
Luis E. Tellez is the President of the Witherspoon Institute. He received a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering as well as an M.B.A. in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Tellez spent the early part of his career working in the chemical industry, and subsequently spent over twenty years administering several not-for-profit corporations. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the James Madison program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Stephen T. Whelan, Esq. is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Witherspoon Institute. Mr. Whelan is a partner in the law firm of Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP and a lecturer in the Princeton University Politics Department. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, he is a member of the Advisory Council of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, a Trustee of Fraunces Tavern Museum in Lower Manhattan, and the author of three books on law. He and his wife live in New York City.