 Tom Minnery is senior vice president of Government and Public Policy for Focus on the Family.
His staff produces Citizen magazine, a monthly issues magazine with a circulation of 75,000; Family News in Focus, a daily information and analysis radio program broadcast on approximately 1,600 radio outlets; Teachers in Focus magazine; Boundless, an online “webzine” for college students; and Citizen Issues Alert, a weekly fax on hot issues. In addition, the Public Policy Division trains people for effective grassroots involvement via state-based family policy councils, which now operate in 40 states, and through field seminars on specific issues. The staff also researches and publishes books, videos and position papers on a variety of public policy issues.
A founding member of the Alliance Defence Fund, he has served on the ADF Board of Directors and as a former chairman of the board. He currently serves as member-at-large. His interest in ADF was most influenced by what he believes is the need to reclaim the court system for Christian moral principles.
Minnery is a former senior editor of Christianity Today magazine and Capitol Hill correspondent for Gannett News Service. His service to other boards, non-profit organizations, and the local community includes Regent University School of Government Board of Visitors and local political campaigns. He has been a church elder for many years and the recipient of several recognition awards from local civic and church groups.
Minnery and his family reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is a graduate of Ohio University, B.A. Journalism, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, M.A. Religion.
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Dr. David A. Noebel is founder and president of Summit Ministries and edits and writes Summit's monthly publication, The Journal. Dr. Noebel has been a college professor, college president, and candidate for the U.S. Congress.
Dr. Noebel has a B.A. from Hope College in Holland, a M.A. from the University of Tulsa, and was a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is an author, editor, public speaker, and ordained minister. He is recognized as an expert on worldview analysis and the decline of morality and spirituality in Western Civilization. He travels worldwide lecturing in high schools, universities, and churches.
David has been a guest on numerous national radio and television programs. He has authored a number of books and has written extensively on the subject of Western Civilization's moral and spiritual decline. His most popular works include Understanding the Times (which has sold over 500,000 copies), the New York Times' best selling Mind Siege (co-authored with Tim LaHaye), and Clergy in the Classroom (co-authored with Kevin Bywater and J.F. Baldwin).
He and his wife Alice live in Manitou Springs, CO. They have two children and five grandchildren.
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 Lila Rose is a student activist at UCLA who has dedicated herself to building a culture of life and ending abortion. At age fifteen, Lila founded Live Action, which is now a growing nonprofit with several chapters in California. Live Action is a student-led organization and uses "new media" to educate and mobilize both local and national audiences to demand accountability from the abortion industry and human rights for the pre-born.
In Fall 2006, Lila began her undergraduate studies at UCLA and soon founded the pro-life student magazine The Advocate, administered through the new UCLA student chapter of Live Action. The Advocate ran its inaugural issue in January 2007, reporting on Lila’s first undercover investigation—an expose of pro-abortion counseling at UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Health Center and institutional support for abortion for pregnant students. The Advocate has since gone national and is distributed at over two dozen different high school and college campuses across the country.
Lila has led numerous undercover stings through Live Action, exposing corruption and illegal activity within Planned Parenthood, the Nation's number one Abortion provider. “The Mona Lisa Project,” vividly illustrates how Planned Parenthood’s ‘abortion-first mentality’ leads it to disregard state laws meant to protect young girls, instead sending them back into the arms of their sexual abusers. It has prompted officials in several states to take action against Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood affiliates are the subject of ongoing investigations in Indiana and Alabama, and the Tennessee legislature recently voted to end up to $1.1 million in taxpayer subsidies to the abortion provider.
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 Aaron Stern pastors theMILL, the college / 20-somethings ministry at New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Under his leadership the weekly attendance has gone from 30 to over 1000 and has become one of the most effective and innovative young adult ministries in the country. He graduated from Oral Roberts University with a degree in business and later finished a graduate degree in theology. His first book, published by David C Cook, will be coming out in Spring 2011 about secrets and the power of confession. Aaron likes triple tall, one pump mochas from Starbucks, Home Depot and getting the mail; he dislikes tomatoes, the NFL off-season and folding laundry. Aaron and his wife Jossie have four boys.
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 Four years ago Dr. Jeff Myers was teaching about “Personal Vision” to students in his popular leadership class at Bryan College. “What’s your personal vision?” they asked. Without thinking of the implications, Jeff replied, “To mobilize this entire generation of adults to pass the baton of godly faithfulness to the next generation of leaders by recovering the ancient art of mentoring.” God took this small seed and watered it through the support of education and business leaders, and since 2005 Passing the Baton International has trained more than 200,000 people in 500 schools, churches, non-profits and political groups in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Africa on the principles of mentoring.
Dr. Myers is Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, where he teaches undergraduate courses and MBA courses in leadership and communication. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Colorado-based Summit Ministries, a youth leadership training program endorsed by evangelical leaders such as James Dobson and Chuck Colson. Dr. Myers is the author of five video coaching systems and seven books, including Handoff: The Only Way to Win the Race of Life. His current book project, CULTIVATE, presents his findings from teaching and implementing mentoring principles around the world, and offers a transformational new approach to creating cultures (in schools, churches, businesses and families) that cultivate souls and equip people to impact their culture. Myers earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Denver. He and his wife Danielle have four children and live in Tennessee.
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 Jeff Crank is a strong voice for social and fiscal conservative issues in Colorado. As the host of the Jeff Crank Show, he brings a great deal of knowledge and nearly 20 years of experience in government and politics to the airwaves.
Jeff is currently the Colorado State Director of Americans for Prosperity, a grassroots free-market, free-enterprise organization. He also owns Rocky Mountain Consultants, a Colorado Springs based company providing business development consulting services to several business clients.
He was also a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 5th Congressional District Republican Primary in 2008 and 2006. Jeff has served as Vice President, Government Sales for XAware Corporation, a data integration company and previously served as the Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs for the Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce.
Jeff served on the Washington staff of U.S. Congressman Joel Hefley from 1991-1998 where he focused on military issues and served as the Administrative Director. During this time he helped author several pieces of legislation including the Military Family Housing Privatization Act and legislation to stop the transfer of U.S. missile technology to China.
Jeff’s favorite things to do are pheasant and big game hunting throughout the western United States – but only with his favorite hunting buddies – his son, Joel and his dog, Indy – a great friend and fierce hunting Hungarian Vizsla. He also enjoys spending time with his wife, who has put up with him for nearly two decades and his daughter who melts his heart.
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 Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), works on pro-family and pro-life issues, trains grassroots activists and students, testifies at government hearings, and advocates for ethical policies at the United Nations.
Miss Wright’s exercise of freedom of speech against abortion has resulted in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court. Her international work includes teaching at the Sri Lanka Bible College, training pro-family leaders in Mexico, and advising Kosovo’s new government.
A frequent guest on national TV (such as FOX, CNN, MSNBC, ABC World News Tonight and others), her editorials and articles have been published in USA Today, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Federalist Society, Washington Times, Human Events and other outlets. Wendy was named among “The 100 Most Powerful Women of Washington” in 2006 by the Washingtonian Magazine. The National Pro-Life Religious Council awarded Wendy for her “continuous leadership in the cause of life.”
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  Ken Cuccinelli was a member of the Virginia Senate from 2002 to 2009 when he was elected as the Attorney General of Virginia
. His experience as a small business owner, an attorney, and Homeschool Father has uniquely prepared him for his role in the General Assembly where he served on the influential Senate Courts of Justice Committee.
Now as the Attorney General of Virginia, Ken is one of the primary architects in the constitutional challenge to the recently passed health care bill.
As a statesman, Ken Cuccinelli has led the fight to defend constitutional rights, stop tax increases, protect life and families, and keep Virginia a low-regulation and pro-business state.
In the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Legislative Sessions, Ken worked tirelessly to pass meaningful eminent domain laws that now prevent local and state governments from taking private homes and businesses for developers’ projects instead of for true public uses.
Ken also has a strong record of supporting our police officers as they protect our communities. He passed legislation that stopped local governments from unfairly exploiting our law enforcement officers’ overtime work.
Ken’s wife, Teiro, was almost the girl next door. Actually, she lived three doors down from his family’s Northern Virginia home. Ken and Teiro married in 1991, after Ken graduated from the Engineering School at The University of Virginia and Teiro graduated from James Madison University. After over 17 years of marriage, they have been blessed with five daughters and two sons.
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Michael P. Farris is Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association and Chancellor of Patrick
Henry College. He also serves as President of ParentalRights.org.
Since founding HSLDA in 1983, Farris has used his extensive experience in both politics and appellate litigation to defend parental rights and help grow the organization to over 80,000 member families. He is also the founder of Patrick Henry College, a Christian institution with the mission of training students through a classical liberal arts curriculum and apprenticeship methodology.
Most recently, Farris started an organization called ParentalRights.org. This campaign exists to secure a constitutional amendment that defends the rights of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
Mike and Vickie Farris live in Purcellville, Virginia, and have ten children and eleven grandchildren.
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Mike Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana, graduated from Hanover College in 1981 and earned his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 1986.
Pence began his career in radio broadcasting in 1992 and two years later, Network Indiana syndicated his show throughout the state of Indiana. "The Mike Pence Show" aired Monday through Friday on 18 stations.
Pence was first elected to Congress in 2000 and was most recently elected to a fifth term in November of 2008. He also was elected unanimously by House Republicans to serve as House Republican Conference Chairman in November 2008. In his role as Conference Chairman, he helps to develop and disseminate the message of the Republican Conference and to promote its Members.
Congressman Pence describes himself as "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order."
Congressman Pence and his wife Karen have three children and reside in Columbus, Indiana. The Pence family lives in Arlington, Virginia, while Congress is in session.
In November of 2007, Congressman Pence was named one of the top 20 most influential conservatives in America, coming in at nineteen according to the London Daily Telegraph.
The ACU honored Congressman Pence in 2006 with the Courage Under Fire Award, which recognizes those who have stood for principle when doing so puts them at risk physically, politically or economically. Past recipients include Charlton Heston, Wayne LaPierre, and Ambassador John Bolton.
In 2005, Congressman Pence was named "Man of the Year" by the leading conservative publication Human Events for his leadership on behalf of fiscal discipline. Previous honorees include President Ronald Reagan and the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.
He was also awarded the Friend of the Family Award by the Indiana Family Institute, and the Distinguished Christian Statesmanship Award by the Center for Christian Statesmanship. Congressman Pence has repeatedly received the "True Blue Award" from the Family Research Council for his commitment to the family and sanctity of human life and the "Tax Payers' Friend" award from the National Taxpayers' Union for his commitment to advocating for responsible tax and spending policies.
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 A homeschool graduate from Pennsylvania, Will began working for HSLDA in January 2004 as a legal assistant to Staff Attorney Scott Woodruff. After graduating from Oak Brook College of Law with his J.D., he moved on to direct HSLDA’s Federal Relations department and to serve as HSLDA’s federal lobbyist.
As HSLDA’s representative on Capitol Hill, Will uses his passion for homeschooling to advocate for all homeschoolers before Congress and the federal departments. He has testified before Congress and met with senior officials from federal agencies and the executive branch. In October, 2007, Will became the director of Generation Joshua, a division of HSLDA, where he works with young people who are passionate about making a difference in politics, along with continuing to serve as HSLDA’s federal lobbyist. He is a member of the California bar.
Will and his wife, Rachel, also a homeschool graduate as well as an accomplished portrait artist, reside in northern Virginia.
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Elected in 2006, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. In only her first term, Congresswoman Bachmann developed a reputation as a "principled reformer" who stays true to her conservative beliefs while pushing for real reform of the broken ways of Washington. And, her strong advocacy for her constituents earned her a second term in Congress in November 2008.
She is a leading advocate for bipartisan earmark reform and tax relief and is a staunch opponent of wasteful government spending. She is among the leaders in the U.S. House pushing for increased energy exploration in the U.S. to provide much needed relief at the pump for hard-working Americans and put our nation on the path to energy independence.
Congresswoman Bachmann currently sits on the Financial Services Committee. This committee is tasked with the oversight of numerous financial sectors including housing, real estate and banking. This also gives the Congresswoman keen insight into the housing crisis and credit crunch, leading her to be a staunch opponent of the taxpayer-funded bailout of Wall Street.
Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, live in Stillwater where they own a small business mental health care practice that employs 42 people. The Bachmanns have five children, Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia. In addition, the Bachmanns have opened their home to 23 foster children, which has inspired Congresswoman Bachmann to become one of Congress’ leading advocates for foster and adopted children. She was recently honored with an appointment to the bipartisan Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s Advisory Board.
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