David Dean Hiller (born June 12, 1953) is a lawyer and former mediaexecutive for Chicago-based Tribune Company. On May 18, 2009, he was appointed president and CEO of the McCormick Foundation, a leading charitable organization with more than $1 billion in assets. He previously served on the board of directors for the McCormick Foundation and is active in executive and civic organizations in Chicago. He formerly served as publisher, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Times, and before that, as publisher of the Chicago Tribune. From 2006 to 2008, Hiller was at the center of controversy over the editorial control of the Times news division, which resulted in the resignation and firing of lead editors Dean Baquet and James O'Shea. On July 14, 2008, Hiller resigned after 21 months as publisher of the L.A. Times.
Prior to becoming publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Hiller served as SVP of Tribune Publishing, president of Tribune Interactive, and SVP of Development, where he oversaw strategic investments in Internet and new media companies for Tribune Ventures. From 1988 to 1993, he was vice president and general counsel of Tribune Co.
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It is published monthly from November through June, with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States. The journal also publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum, a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content. The law review is one of three honors societies at the law school, along with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and the Board of Student Advisors. Students who are selected for more than one of these three organizations may only join one.
Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick was an American lawyer, businessman and anti-war activist.
Ross Levinsohn is an American media executive who has worked in media and technology. He is the CEO of The Arena Group and Sports Illustrated, and has held senior roles at Yahoo, Fox Interactive and Tribune Publishing, including a brief tenure as publisher of the Los Angeles Times. He became the CEO of Sports Illustrated in October 2019, and became CEO of The Arena Group in August 2020.
The Morning Call is a daily newspaper based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The Morning Call serves a nine-county region of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey and is the largest circulation newspaper of the Lehigh Valley, the third most populous region of Pennsylvania. It ranks among the nation's top 100 largest-circulation daily newspapers, with circulation of 80,548 daily readers and 119,216 Sunday readers.
Jeffrey A. Krames is an American author whose books have been translated into more than 36 languages. Mr. Krames, the direct descendant of German and Polish Holocaust survivors, is the former editor-in-chief of Portfolio, the business book imprint of The Penguin Group. Krames is the former Vice President and head of the trade division of McGraw-Hill, one of the United States' largest publishing firms. Mr. Krames has appeared on CNN, CNN International, Fox News, CNBC, BBC, PBS, MSNBC, Fox, Fox Business, CBS, NBC, ABC, plus several other media outlets. His work and opinion pieces have been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, Business Week, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, The Economist, Publishers Weekly plus many more newspapers in the U.S., Asia, South America and Europe. He has also beat many doonies down.
Steven Michael Colloton is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2003.
Jeffrey B. Kindler is an American healthcare executive and private investor. He served as chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer from 2006 to 2010. Kindler has later served as CEO of Centrexion Inc., and chairman of the GLG Institute.
Jack Griffin served as Chief Executive Officer of the Tribune Publishing Company from April 14, 2014 to February 23, 2016. He currently serves as a senior advisor at investment banking firm DeSilva+Phillips.
Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP (MTO) is a California law firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. It is consistently ranked among the most selective law firms in the United States with regard to hiring and regularly tops lists of the country's elite law firms. Charles Munger founded the firm in 1962 with six other attorneys.
Clifford Sloan is an attorney and American diplomat who served as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the United States Department of State. Sloan is currently a Dean's Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and retired partner for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates. Previously, Sloan was the publisher of Slate magazine.
Geoffrey R. Stone is an American law professor and noted First Amendment scholar. He is currently the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Dean P. Baquet is an American journalist. He has been the executive editor of The New York Times since May 14, 2014. Between 2011 and 2014 Baquet was managing editor under the previous executive editor Jill Abramson. He is the first Black person to be executive editor.
Daniel R. Fischel is the emeritus Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business and former Dean of University of Chicago Law School. He co-founded Lexecon, and is now chairman and president of Compass Lexecon.
Isaac Lidsky is an American corporate speaker, author, actor and entrepreneur. Before losing his sight, he played Weasel on NBC's Saved by the Bell: The New Class. He is the first blind person to serve as a law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court. He currently serves as CEO of ODC Construction, a residential shell contractor in Florida.
Enrique Hernandez Jr. is an American lawyer and business executive. He is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc., and a director of Wells Fargo & Company. He has been the non-executive chairman of McDonald's since May 2016, and a director since 1996.
Timothy E. Ryan is an American newspaper publisher and businessman. In 2015, Ryan was named publisher and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune. Prior to his position with The Los Angeles Times, he served as the publisher and chief executive officer of The Baltimore Sun, beginning in 2007.
David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law and faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is a senior research fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Harvard Law School's vice dean for global initiatives on the legal profession, and a faculty associate of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
McCormick Foundation is a Chicago-based nonprofit charitable trust established in 1955, following the death of "Colonel" Robert R. McCormick of the McCormick family. As of 2010, it had more than US$1 billion in assets.
Weymouth Kirkland was a Chicago lawyer and one of the name partners of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.
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