Clyde “Skip” Rankin served as President of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society during his undergraduate years at Princeton University. He graduated in 1972, and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1975.
Dr. Ann Halliday currently serves as the Associate Secretary, Special Assistant to the President and Special Assistant to the Dean of the College, in the Office of the Vice President and Secretary.
Dean Avens is starting his sixth year as Dean of Rocky College. As an assistant professor in the Politics Department at Princeton, he taught political philosophy, as well as ethics and public policy in the Woodrow Wilson School. As dean, he still teaches occasionally in the Princeton Writing Program. He grew up in Queens, NY, studied politics and history as an undergraduate at Williams, and received his Ph.D. from Yale. His specialty is democratic theory and justice; currently, he’s working on a book about the idea of inheritance in Western political thought.
Tom Byrne is President of Byrne Asset Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor. Tom serves as an officer and trustee of two endowed non-profit enterprises. He is a former board chair of an independent school in the Princeton area, and serves as treasurer of the $75 million Fund for New Jersey. More recently, Governor Chris Christie appointed Tom to the New Jersey State Investment Council. The Council formulates policies governing New Jersey’s public pension fund assets, currently about $68 billion.
Christina Paxson is the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2000, she founded the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School.
Steven Schoenfeld received his A.B. from Princeton in 1987, where he was President of the Whig-Clio, a member of the Debate Team, and a writer for the Princeton Tory. He received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1990. He is currently a Trial Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP.
Keith E. Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University and currently director of graduate studies in the Department of Politics. He has published widely on American constitutional theory and development, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency. He is currently completing a two-volume casebook American Constitutionalism (with Howard Gillman and Mark Graber) and working on a political history of the judicial review of federal statutes.
