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Judith Hope Joins PSI Board
WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2007 — Judith Richards Hope, a lawyer whose
career combines the worlds of law and academia, was elected to the
PSI Board
of Directors
at its last meeting.
An adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, Hope focuses,
in her work and teaching, on the resolution of complex matters before
the US government, particularly those involving high profile political
litigation, international negotiations and multi-national disputes.
She has held faculty appointments as lecturer in trial advocacy at
Harvard Law School, executive in residence at the University of Richmond
and lecturer on constitutional law at Pepperdine University. She has
been a practicing lawyer, first with the firm of Williams & Connolly
and, from 1981 through 2004, as a partner in and senior advisor to
the international law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
based in New York and Los Angeles, and founded the firm’s Washington
office in 1981.
Hope is a member of the boards of directors of General Mills, Union
Pacific Corporation, Russell Reynolds Associates and Altius Holdings
Ltd.
She served as vice chairman of President Reagan’s Commission on Organized
Crime and as associate director of the White House Domestic Council
during the Ford Administration. She was the first woman named to the
Harvard Corporation, the seven-person senior governing board of Harvard
University, where she served from 1989 to 2000.
Hope is a graduate of Defiance (Ohio) High School, Wellesley College
and the Harvard Law School. In 2000, Harvard awarded her an honorary
doctor of laws degree.
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PSI's newest board member Judith Hope
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