After the death from brain cancer of his late wife, Barbara McDowell, in 2009, Jerry Hartman established the Barbara McDowell Foundation to commemorate her life and passion for social justice. Since then, he has served as the Foundation’s President and Board Chair, guiding it to a nationally recognized charitable institution.

Bill retired from the partnership at the Jones Day law firm in 2019. He was in the Business and Tort Litigation Practice, with a focus on antitrust, class actions, consumer protection, and other complex litigation. After 20 years at Jones Day (including practicing with Barbara McDowell during her time at the firm), Bill left to serve from 2006-2008 as Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Ethics Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

Joshua, a Management Consultant with JKD Consultants Inc., served as a Director on the Boards of technology-based public companies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan, and of private companies. Joshua has been successful with respect to mergers and acquisitions, shareholder liquidity transactions, new product introductions, and operational improvements in a business-to-business environment.

Deborah started her legal career in the Honors Program of the US Department of Justice. She litigated pattern and practice cases in the Civil Rights Division’s Employment Section. She handled cases against public and private employers and defended challenges to the federal governments affirmative action requirements for contractors. After moving to California, she worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District, handling a wide variety of civil suits against federal agencies.

Dana Foster is a partner in the Antitrust Group of White & Case. He has over 21 years of trial and appellate litigation experience, advising domestic and foreign clients in all aspects of complex civil and criminal matters, both at the federal and the state level. Dana’s trial achievements include representing Anthem as trial counsel in an action related to the efforts by Cigna’s management to undermine Anthem's $54 billion acquisition of Cigna. He also successfully defended Toshiba at two separate trials—one brought by a direct purchaser class and another by an opt-out Fortune 500 company—involving price-fixing claims in the LCD industry.

Jennifer is a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department of the law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP and a member of the Firm’s Global Antitrust & Competition Practice. She is an experienced antitrust litigator and trial lawyer who has successfully defended clients in cutting-edge federal antitrust cases at both the trial and appellate level. She focuses on complex antitrust cases, including multidistrict litigation, class actions, and strategic business-to-business litigation.

Prior to joining the faculty of the George Washington University Law School in 1994, Jeffrey S. Gutman served as a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice (DOJ). His work at the DOJ principally involved representing the federal government in constitutional and administrative challenges to federal statutes and regulations in federal courts throughout the country. Among the cases he litigated were challenges to the military base closing statute, firearms control legislation and regulations, legislation governing the receipt of honoraria by federal employees, the savings and loan reform statutes, and private meetings of government advisers.

Andrew S. Rosen is Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., among the world’s largest, most diverse education organizations. He also serves as Executive Vice President of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC), Kaplan’s parent company. Since he joined the company in 1992, Kaplan has transformed from an unprofitable test prep firm to a broad global educational enterprise known for its innovation in higher education, professional licensure, certifications and workforce development, international university pathway programs, English-language training, university hosting and transnational education, while restoring its pre-eminence in test preparation.

Laura is a nationally recognized trial lawyer whose practice focuses on antitrust litigation and government investigations. Her experience includes substantial antitrust class action experience representing clients in the life sciences industries, as well as the representation of individuals in criminal cases at trial and on appeal. Laura has represented victims of gender discrimination on a pro bono basis at trial and on appeal; she currently represents an Alabama prison inmate in a high-profile civil rights lawsuit against the State of Alabama.

Sandra retired from her position as a Special Victim Litigation Expert in the U.S. Army Legal Services Agency in December 2021, having spent the years from 2009 until her retirement as a civilian expert providing direct advice, training, and assistance to Army JAG Corps prosecutors around the world in the investigation and prosecution of cases involving special victims, including: sexual assault; interpersonal violence; child abuse; and homicide.

Peggy retired from the partnership at Latham & Watkins LLP in December 2019. Prior to joining Latham in 2005, she had practiced at Howrey LLP for many years, and was one of the first women to join the firm as an associate in 1976.