Members of the Iraq Study Group
Alan K. Simpson
Background: U.S. senator from Wyoming, 1979-97; chairman, Veterans Affairs Committee; Wyoming House of Representatives, 1964-77.
Current positions: Visiting lecturer, University of Wyoming; law partner, Simpson, Kepler & Edwards, Wyoming; consultant, Tongour, Simpson, Holsclaw Group, a government relations group in Washington; author.
Military: Army
Party: Republican
Age: 75
**
William J. Perry
Background: Defense secretary, 1994-97; also deputy Defense secretary and assistant Defense secretary. Has also worked in technology in the private sector.
Current positions: Professor, Stanford University; co-director, Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Stanford and Harvard universities.
Military: Enlistee in Army Corps of Engineers; Army Reserve
Party: Democratic
Age: 79
**
Charles S. Robb
Background: U.S. senator from Virginia, 1989-2001; Virginia governor, 1982-86; Virginia lieutenant governor, 1978-82.
Current position: Professor of law and public policy, George Mason University.
Military: Marine Corps
Party: Democratic
Age: 67
**
Sandra Day O’Connor
Background: Supreme Court justice, 1981-2006; Arizona Court of Appeals, 1979-81; Maricopa County Superior Court judge, 1975-79.
Current position: Chancellor, College of William and Mary.
Party: Republican
Age: 76
**
James A. Baker III, co-chairman
Background: Secretary of State 1989-92; secretary of Treasury 1985-88; White House chief of staff, 1992-93; oversaw 2000 Florida recount for George W. Bush.
Current position: Honorary chairman, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University; senior partner, Houston-based firm Baker Botts; author.
Military: Marine Corps
Party: Republican
Age: 76
**
Lee H. Hamilton, co-chairman
Background: Congressman from Indiana, 1965-99; chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee (now International Relations Committee); House
Intelligence
Committee; co-chairman, Sept. 11 commission,
2002-05.
Current position: Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
Party: Democratic
Age: 75
**
Edwin Meese III
Background: Attorney general, 1985-88; White House counselor, 1981-85; professor of law, University of San Diego,
1977-81.
Current positions: Ronald Reagan chair in public policy, Heritage Foundation; visiting fellow, Hoover Institution.
Military: Army Reserve
Party: Republican
Age: 75
**
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Background: Advisor to President Clinton; president, National Urban League; former executive director, United Negro College Fund.
Current position: Senior managing director, Lazard Freres & Co., a financial advisory and asset management firm in New York.
Party: Democratic
Age: 71
**
Leon E. Panetta
Background: White House chief of staff, 1994-97; director, Office of Management and Budget, 1993-94; congressman from California, 1977-93; chairman, House Budget Committee.
Current positions: Co-director, Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, Cal State Monterey Bay; distinguished scholar, California State University system.
Military: Army
Party: Democratic
Age: 68
**
Lawrence S. Eagleburger
(joined panel in November upon resignation of Robert M. Gates, who was nominated to be Defense secretary)
Background: Secretary of State, 1992-93. Served as a career diplomat, including ambassador to Yugoslavia (1977-80), as well as assistant secretary and undersecretary of State.
Current position: Chairman, International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.
Military: Army
Party: Republican
Age: 76
**
Source: Los Angeles Times
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