•
Martin Faga - Appointed to a four-year term by President
George W. Bush in October 2004 and reappointed for a three-year term in January 2009. In 2005, he was appointed to the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Faga was president and chief executive officer of the
Mitre Corporation from 2000 to 2006 and is currently a member of its board of trustees. Before joining Mitre, Faga served from 1989 until 1993 as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space with primary emphasis on policy, strategy, and planning. At the same time, he served as Director of the
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Faga's career included service as a staff member of the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he headed the program and budget staff; as an engineer at the
Central Intelligence Agency; and as a research and development officer in the
Air Force. Faga received
bachelor's and
master's degrees in
electrical engineering from
Lehigh University in 1963 and 1964. •
Herbert O. Briick - Appointed to a three-year term by President George W. Bush in October 2008. Briick is currently a senior analyst for a subsidiary of
General Dynamics. Briick retired from the
Central Intelligence Agency in January 2008, following a 33-year career which included service in every directorate of the Agency. For the last five years of his career he was responsible for the management of the CIA declassification program. In that capacity he took part in a wide variety of declassification issues involving the
National Security Council, the
National Archives and Records Administration, the
presidential libraries, the
Office of the Historian in the
Department of State, other members of the
Intelligence Community, the Congress, and non-governmental organizations. He promoted a number of successful initiatives to release previously classified
National Intelligence Estimates and other CIA records of historic significance. Briick was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal in recognition of his service to the CIA. Briick graduated from the
University of Notre Dame in 1973 with a
Bachelor of Arts in history and received his
Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy in international security studies from
the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at
Tufts University in 1975. •
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker - Appointed to a three-year term by President George W. Bush in October 2004 and reappointed for 3 years on October 23, 2008. She joined
McGeorge School of Law as its eighth
dean in 2002 from her position as general counsel for the
University of Wisconsin System. Previously, she served as general counsel for the CIA; Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State; general counsel, National Security Agency; and as Acting Assistant Director (Mergers and Acquisitions) at the
Federal Trade Commission. Parker also served as the director of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Early in her career, Parker gained significant experience in the
federal courts with a variety of litigation involving discrimination and civil liberties issues, including two successful
oral arguments before the
Supreme Court of the United States and numerous arguments before various
courts of appeal. Parker graduated
cum laude from the
University of Michigan in 1965 and received her
J.D. from the
University of Michigan Law School in 1968. •
Jennifer Sims - Appointed to a three-year term by President George W. Bush in December 2008. Sims is visiting professor in the Security Studies Program and Director of Intelligence Studies at
Georgetown University. Prior to this, she taught as a professorial lecturer at
School of Advanced International Studies at
Johns Hopkins University. Sims served as Senior Intelligence Advisor to the
Under Secretary of State for Management from December 1998 to May 2001 and as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Policy and Coordination in the
Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 1994 to 1998. From November 1990 to April 1994, she served as a professional staff member on the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and as foreign affairs and defense advisor to Senator
John Danforth. In 1998, Sims received the
National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal for her work on developing intelligence support for diplomatic operations. She has written extensively on nuclear arms control and intelligence, including
Icarus Restrained: An Intellectual History of American Arms Control, 1945-1960 (
Westview Press, 1991) and, most recently, co-edited volumes with Burton Gerber,
Transforming US Intelligence (
Georgetown University Press, 2005) and
Vaults Mirrors and Masks: Problems in US Counterintelligence Policy (Georgetown University Press, 2008). Sims received her Bachelor of Arts from
Oberlin College and her Master of Arts (1978) and
Ph.D (1985) from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. •
David E. Skaggs - David Skaggs was appointed to the PIDB for a 2-year term by the Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2005. He was reappointed for a second term in July 2007, and then reappointed for a third term in June 2009. He is chairman of the board of the
Office of Congressional Ethics and the former executive director of the
Colorado Department of Higher Education (2007-2009). He served 12 years in Congress (1987–1999) as the Representative from the 2nd Congressional District in Colorado, including 8 years on the House Appropriations Committee and 6 years on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he devoted particular attention to classification and
information security issues. After leaving Congress, he was the founding executive director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the Council for Excellence in Government (1999-2006), counsel to a Washington, DC–based law firm, and 3 years as an adjunct professor at the
University of Colorado. Mr. Skaggs was a Colorado State Representative (1981–1987), including two terms as Minority Leader, and was chief of staff for Congressman
Timothy E. Wirth of Colorado from 1974 to 1977. Before serving in elected office, Mr. Skaggs practiced law in Boulder, CO; as a judge advocate in the
United States Marine Corps; and briefly in New York City. He has a B.A. in philosophy from
Wesleyan University (1964) and an LL.B from
Yale Law School (1967). •
William O. (Bill) Studeman - Appointed to a three-year term by Speaker of the House
Dennis Hastert in June 2006, and reappointed for three-year term in June 2009. Studeman is a retired
United States Navy admiral. He is a distinguished graduate of both the
Naval War College and
National War College and as a
restricted line naval intelligence officer, his
flag tours included Director of Long Range Navy Planning in the
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations,
director of the National Security Agency, and
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) with two extended periods as acting
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). As DDCI, he served in both the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations under DCIs
Robert Gates,
R. James Woolsey, Jr., and
John M. Deutch. Studeman retired from the Navy in 1995 after almost 35 years of service and later became vice president of
Northrop Grumman and deputy general manager of Mission Systems. He was recently a commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction, and is currently serving on the
National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. He is a member of the
Defense Science Board, as well as
Defense Intelligence Agency Joint Military Intelligence College, and other advisory boards. Studeman holds a B.A. in history from the
Sewanee: The University of the South and an M.A. in public and international affairs from
George Washington University, as well as several
honorary doctorates. •
Sanford J. Ungar - Appointed to a three-year term by Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid in March 2008. He is the tenth
president of
Goucher College in
Baltimore, Maryland. Ungar obtained his B.A. in government from
Harvard College and a master's degree in international history from the
London School of Economics. In May 1999 he was awarded an honorary
Doctorate of Humane Letters by
Wilkes University in his hometown of
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Prior to assuming his position at Goucher, Ungar was Director of the
Voice of America for two years. From 1986 until 1999, he was dean of the
American University School of Communication. The author of many magazine and newspaper articles on topics of political and international interest, Ungar has spoken frequently around the United States and in other countries on issues of American foreign policy and domestic politics, free expression, human rights, and immigration. Sanford Ungar has been Washington editor of
The Atlantic, managing editor of
Foreign Policy magazine, and a staff writer for The
Washington Post. He was a correspondent for
UPI in Paris and for
Newsweek in
Nairobi, and for many years contributed to
The Economist, as well as
The New York Times Magazine. ==By-Laws==