The Center for Governmental Studies is privileged to have the following members on its board.

Stephen D. Rountree, Chairman

President, The Music Center of Los Angeles; Former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the J. Paul Getty Trust; Board of Directors, Los Angeles Philharmonic; Board of Directors, Disney Concert Hall; Board of Trustees, Oberlin College; Board of Trustees, Claremont Graduate University; Board of Advisors, UCLA Medical Center; former Assistant Executive Vice President and Director of Personnel, Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Rocco C. Siciliano, Chairman Emeritus

Chair, Dwight D. Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, Washington, D.C.; appointed by President Clinton Member of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission; Co-Chairman, California Commission on Campaign Financing; Trustee, National Academy of Public Administration; Trustee, Committee for Economic Development; retired Chairman and CEO of Ticor, Los Angeles; former Chairman, California Business Roundtable; served as Under Secretary of U.S. Department of Commerce, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Personnel Management, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor, and Member, Federal Pay Board; trustee emeritus, J. Paul Getty Trust and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.

Aileen Adams

Vice Provost for Strategic Alliances, University of Southern California, and Chair, Women's Foundation of California. Board Member, National Organization for Victim Assistance, Los Angeles Conservation Corps, Common Sense Media and Rape Foundation. Former Secretary, California State and Consumer Services Agency; Director, Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Justice Department (Presidential appointee); Los Angeles City Fire Commissioner; Los Angeles Police Reserve Officer; Chair, State Consumer Advisory Council; Deputy Los Angeles City Attorney in Charge of Legislation; and Legal Counsel, Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center. Former Board Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association and Bet Tzedek Legal Services.

Art Agnos

Former Regional Executive, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii); former Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing; former Federal Housing Administration Commissioner; former Board Member, California State Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board; former Mayor of San Francisco; former Assembly member, 16th District, California State Assembly.

Rebecca Avila

Associate Dean, Administration, USC Annenberg School for Communication; former Director, Campaign Finance Project, USC Annenberg School for Communication; former Executive Director of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission; former Associate Director of Grassroots Lobbying for Common Cause; former member, Los Angeles City Police Commission; former Board Member of the Southern California ACLU.

Stephen G. Contopulos

Partner at Sidley Austin Law Firm in the Los Angeles office; more than thirty-five years of litigation experience has ranged from defamation (libel and slander), privacy, copyright, theft of idea and trademark to reporter's privileges, access to courtrooms and public records acts; his practice focuses on both federal and state courts, focusing on representing media companies, particularly in the areas of libel, privacy, copyright and trademark; represents newspapers, magazines, book publishers, television stations and entertainment companies; experience in trial level as well as appellate courts including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court; contributing author for the last several years to the "50-State Survey: Media Privacy and Related Law," published by the Media Law Resource Center, Inc; selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers of Southern California.

Elizabeth Daley

Dean of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California and Executive Director Annenberg Center for Communications; former Director of Taper Media Enterprises and producer for MGM/UA Television; former professor of television and film in the School of Communications at American University; twice nominated for a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award.

Kathay Feng

Executive Director of California Common Cause; helped write and pass landmark redistricting reform initiative, Prop. 11 in 2008; founded the California Voter Empowerment Circle; directed the Voting Rights and Hate Crimes at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC); created state and national models for compliance with the Voting Rights Act and the Help America Vote Act; led APALC's redistricting team to spearhead a statewide organizing effort to engage the APIA community in California's redistricting process; named one of the Top 40 Lawyers under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association; awarded the League of Women Voters of LA's Carrie Chapman Catt Leadership Award; has served on the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council Board, the California Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Help America Vote Act, the California Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Voter Participation and Outreach, the California Common Cause Board, LA County's Community Voter Outreach Committee (founder), the LA County Human Relations Commission, the LAPD Police Chief's API Forum, the Asian Pacific American Police Advisory Council, OCA, and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.

Rabbi Allen I. Freehling

Executive Director, Human Relations Commission, City of Los Angeles; Rabbi Emeritus, University Synagogue, Los Angeles (following 30 years of service as Senior Rabbi); Board Chair, International Association of Physician in AIDS care; Treasurer, Heal the Bay, Los Angeles; well known Advocate for Social Justice and Environment; highly honored leader/member of many religious and secular boards, committees, commissions and councils.

Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr.

Dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science; Senior Fellow at the Frame Works Institute and was a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University; served as the first-ever Associate Vice Chancellor, Community Partnerships in the University of California system (2002–2008); Founding Director of the Center for Communications and Community at the University of California, Los Angeles; previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grinnell College, and the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; taught with former Vice President Al Gore at Columbia University, Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University.

Aileen C. Hernandez

President, Aileen C. Hernandez Associates, San Francisco; member, California Commission on Campaign Financing; former member, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (appointed by President Johnson); former President, National Organization for Women.

Robert M. Hertzberg

Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw; former Speaker & Member, California State Assembly; former Director, Solar Integrated Technologies; Board Member, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), Town Hall Los Angeles, Century Housing Corporation, Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA) and California Historical Society. Former Chair of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation; Fellow, USC Keston Institute for Infrastructure; and Charter Member, Southern California Leadership Council.

Cindy Miscikowski

Served for over 30 years in the City of Los Angeles, as a staff member and then an elected official on the City Council from 1997-2005. She is widely recognized as an authority on urban planning, revitalizing the city's land use policies and spear-heading the adoption of a new Master Plan for Los Angeles International Airport. She also authored two pioneering initiatives adopted by the voters in Los Angeles, one banning oil drilling on the city's coastline and another cutting in half the density permitted in most of the city's commercial areas. She has received awards from the American Planning Association, the American Association of University Women and a Public Service Award from UCLA.

Dan Schnur

Founding Principal, CommandFocus; Visiting Instructor, University of California at Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies; Adjunct Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication; former Press Secretary and Communications Director, Governor Pete Wilson; former Director of Communications, John McCain for President.

Robert M. Stern, Secretary

President, Center for Governmental Studies; former Staff Director, Council on Governmental Ethics Laws; former Lecturer, UCLA and UCLA Law School; former General Counsel, California Fair Political Practices Commission; former Elections Counsel, California Secretary of State; former Committee Counsel to the California State Assembly's Election and Reapportionment Committee; principal co-author of the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Proposition 9).

Margita Thompson

Vice President for Corporate Communications at Health Net, Inc.; serves on the Board of the Women's Conference and the California State Summer School for the Arts; former Press Secretary for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; former Political Producer for Larry King Live; former Press Secretary to Mrs. Lynne Cheney in the Office of the Vice President; California Press Secretary for Bush for President during the 2000 campaign; Co-Chair of Latina Action Day for HOPE (Hispanas Organized for Political Equality.

Tracy Westen, Vice Chairman

Chief Executive Officer, Center for Governmental Studies; former Chairman, Grassroots.com; Adjunct Professor of Law, USC-Annenberg School for Communication; former Lecturer, UCLA Law School; Co-Director, Democracy Network; founder and former Vice President, The California Channel; former Deputy Director, Federal Trade Commission, Washington D.C.

Harold M. Williams

of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP; President Emeritus, J. Paul Getty Trust; former Dean of the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA; former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; former member of the Board of Directors of the Times-Mirror Corporation of Los Angeles; former member of the University of California's Board of Regents; former member of the Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education; former co-chair, California Citizens' Commission for Higher Education; Chair, Committee for Effective School Governance.