Velma Redmond is the retired Division General Counsel of American Water. She was formerly Chief Counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of State, Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission and Assistant Attorney General in the Pennsylvania Department of…
Tom Vanaskie served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He is a member of Stevens & Lee’s Litigation Department and…
Ann Womble lives in Lancaster PA. She served as Chair of the Republican Committee of Lancaster County and was a delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention. She worked on Capitol Hill for a Republican member of Congress during the…
Tracey Brame is the Associate Dean of Experiential and Practice Preparation and the Director of the WMU-Cooley Innocence Project, and she is the Immediate Past President of the Grand Rapids Bar Association. Professor Brame has a history of service to…
Ken Cockrel is an American journalist, nonprofit executive, businessman, and former elected official who served on the Detroit City Council for 16 years including one term as Council President, and was the 73rd mayor of Detroit from September 2008 to…
Gary Gordon is a Michigan attorney with extensive experience in election law, regulatory law, and litigation. Before entering private practice at Dykema, Gordon served as the Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Michigan. Gordon frequently speaks to groups…
Kelly Keenan served as Deputy Attorney General for Attorney General Dana Nessel from 2019 through 2020. Keenan had served as Legal Counsel for Governor Jennifer Granholm and as Deputy Attorney General for Attorney General Granholm. Prior to that Kelly had…
Anne is President of Mervenne & Company, a public affairs consulting firm that she founded after 20 years in state government. She began her tenure as a staffer in the state legislature and concluded her service as Special Advisor to…
Michael B. Staebler is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He practiced law in Detroit, Michigan and Washington D.C. for 47 years before his retirement in 2016. During the last 35 years of Mike’s legal career he was a partner…
Dave Trott represented Michigan in the 11th district from 2015 to 2019. He was the chairman and CEO of Trott & Trott PC, which represents banks and lenders in homeowner foreclosure and bankruptcy litigation. Dave has served on the boards…