William T. Coleman Jr.is a senior partner and the senior counselor in the Washingtonoffice of O'Melveny and Myers LLP, one of the world's foremost law firms. He joined thefirm after serving as the U.S. secretary of transportation. Donald T. Blisshas had a longcareer in government and the law, having chaired the Transportation Practice Group ofO'Melveny & Myers LLP. Stephen G. Breyeris an associate justice of the U.S. SupremeCourt and the author of Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (Knopf, 2005).
Ambassador Donald Tiffany Bliss (Retired) spent thirteen years in the federal government and thirty years practicing law in Washington, D.C. The great-grandson and grandson of Mark Twain's publishers, he has authored and co-authored books on Mark Twain as well as written a play about Twain's last years, "The Return of Halley's Comet."