Directors and Advisors

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Andrew Zepeda

President

 Graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and Notre Dame Law School; General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Griffin Industries, Calabasas; Of Counsel to Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz & Hogan, Beverly Hills; Parishioner, St. Therese, Alhambra; Member and past President, Legatus, Pasadena chapter; Former Director, Right to Life League of Southern California; Former director, Life Legal Defense Foundation; Member, Board of Governors, Thomas Aquinas College
Martin Boles

Vice President

 Graduate of Dartmouth College and Stanford University (J.D. and M.B.A.); Litigation partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles; Parishioner, St. Rita, Sierra Madre; Executive Committee Member, Dartmouth Alumni Association; Board of Advisors, Club for Growth, Washington, D.C.; President, Family Enrichment Society of Greater Los Angeles; Member, Federalist Society, Los Angeles Chapter; Member, American Bar Association
Khushro Ghandhi

Treasurer

 Graduate of Swarthmore College and California State University at Los Angeles (M.S. Accountancy and M.B.A.); Certified Public Accountant; Enrolled Agent; Owner, Vista Business Service; Parishioner, St. Barnabas, Eagle Rock; Member National Association of Enrolled Agents
Donald Harrahill

Secretary

 Graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and Claremont Graduate School; Assistant Personnel Director, City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation; Parishioner, Immaculate Conception, Monrovia
Alan Arnall

Member

 Graduate of University of California Los Angeles and Notre Dame Law School; practicing attorney, Glendale; Parishioner, Holy Family, Glendale; Member of the Board, Pregnancy Help Center of San Gabriel Valley, Inc.
Daniel Collins

Member

 Graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School; Litigation Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles; Parishioner, St. Philip the Apostle, Pasadena; Member, St. Philip the Apostle Parish Pastoral Council; Lawyer Representative, Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference; former Law Clerk to the Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to the Hon. Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court; Member, Federalist Society; Member, American Bar Association
Len Golbranson

Member

 Graduate of Santa Clara University (B.S. Chemistry 1986 & M.B.A 1995); Managing Director, Piper Jaffray Corp.–Institution Equity Capital Markets; Santa Clara University Board of Regents 2001-2006; Santa Clara University Men’s Soccer Assistant Coach 1991-1996.
T. Murphy Goodwin

Member

 Graduate of Pomona College, University of Santa Barbara (M.A. in Classics), University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine (M.D.), and University of Arizona (Obstetrics); Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatrics, and Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Southern California; Advisor, Los Angeles Archdiocesan Commission for Life Issues; Member of the Board, Catholic Medical Association; Consultant, National Catholic Bioethics Center; Author, numerous articles on Catholic ethics; Parishioner, St. Andrew, Pasadena; Instructor, St. Andrew Marriage preparation program; Fundraiser, St. Andrew Benefit Concert
R. Scott Turicchi

Member

 Graduate of Claremont McKenna College; President, j2 Global Communications; Board member of Green Hills Software; Parishioner & President of the Finance Council at St.Andrew Church, Pasadena; Trustee, John Paul II Cultural Center/Foundation, Washington D.C.; Vice Chairman, Council for Institutional Advancement, Pontifical North American College, Rome; Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Thomas Aquinas College; Member of the Board of Governors, Legatus, Inc., Naples, Fl ; Member and President, Legatus, Ventura chapter; Member, Legatus, Hollywood chapter; Member of the Advisory Board, Present Vision Center of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles;  Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, Los Angeles, CA; Scott and his wife Lannette are members of the Order of St. Albert; Recipient of the Angel of Life Award from the Pregnancy Counseling Center, Mission Hills, CA and the Umiltà Award from the Pontifical North American College, Washington D.C.

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Mrs. Laura Berquist Author; Founding Director, Mother of Divine Grace School, Ojai, CA
Dr. John C. Eastman Professor of Law and Dean, Chapman University School of Law, Orange, CA; Director, The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Claremont, CA
Dr. Robert P. George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Professor of Politics, and Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Prof. Mary Ann Glendon Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA; Member, Pontifical Council for the Laity, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Rome
Mr. Nicholas H. Healy, Jr. President, Ave Maria University, Naples, FL
Dr. Alice von Hildebrand

 

 Author; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, NY
Dr. Charles R. Kesler

 

 Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College; Senior Fellow, The Claremont Institute; Editor, Claremont Review of Books, Claremont, CA
Rev. Paul Mankowski, S.J. Lector in Biblical Hebrew, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome
Msgr. M. Francis Mannion

 

 Director, The Liturgical Institute, University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, IL; Founding President, Society for Catholic Liturgy
Dr. Ronald P. McArthur Founding President, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA
Dr. Ralph McInerny†

 

 Author; Novelist; Publisher; Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies, and Director, The Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Dr. Timothy O’Donnell President, Christendom College, Front Royal, VA
Mr. Peter M. Robinson

 

 Author; Editor, Hoover Digest, and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Mr. Roy S. Rohter, S.F.O. Co-Founder, St. Monica Academy, Pasadena, CA; Co-Founder, St. Augustine Academy, Ventura, CA
Dr. Kevin Ryan Author; Educator; Founding Director, The Center for Advancement of Ethics and Character, Boston University, Boston, MA
Rev. Michael Scanlan, T.O.R. Author; Educator; Chancellor and Emeritus President, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH
Mr. William Simon, Jr. Chairman, William E. Simon Foundation
Mr. James Stenson Author; Co-Founder, The Heights School, Washington, D.C.; Founding Headmaster, Northridge Preparatory School, Chicago, IL
Dr. Michael Waldstein President, International Theological Institute on Marriage and Family, Gaming, Austria