Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
On April 4, 2019, Judge Altman was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. At 36, he became the youngest federal district court judge in the country—and the youngest federal judge ever appointed in the Southern District of Florida.
Judge Altman received a BA from Columbia University, where he played quarterback on the football team and pitched for the baseball team—earning All-Ivy honors. Judge Altman received his JD from the Yale Law School, where he was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, the Judge clerked on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Stanley Marcus.
Judge Altman then became a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, where he twice received the Director of the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys’ Award for Superior Performance by a federal prosecutor. In 2013, Judge Altman was named “Federal Prosecutor of the Year” by the Miami-Dade Chiefs of Police and the Law Enforcement Officers’ Charitable Foundation.
In 2014, Judge Altman became a partner at the Miami law firm of Podhurst Orseck, where he represented the victims of airplane crashes and bank fraud conspiracies.
Founder, Groisman LLC
Gabriel Groisman is a nationally recognized attorney, policy strategist, public speaker, and advocate for the Jewish community. He is the Founder of Groisman, LLC, a boutique government affairs and consulting firm with offices in Miami and Washington, D.C., where he provides strategic advisory services, public affairs, and advocacy for select clients. He is also a practicing attorney and the principal of Groisman Law, where he handles select litigation and legal matters.
Gabe is a weekly columnist for JNS.org, where he writes on issues relating to antisemitism, U.S. and Israeli politics, and the future of the Jewish people. He is also the host of the political podcast Standpoint with Gabe Groisman, featuring high-level interviews with U.S. Senators, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and thought leaders from across the conservative and pro-Israel landscape.
Groisman is an internationally sought-after speaker and legal scholar on antisemitism and the BDS movement. He has addressed audiences at the United Nations, the Italian Parliament, and the Israeli Knesset, as well as conferences and institutions around the globe. He serves as a Senior Advisor to the Combat Antisemitism Movement and is a member of the Jewish National Fund’s Speakers Bureau.
Previously, Gabe served as Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida, from 2016 to 2022, after first being elected to the Village Council. During his tenure, he authored and passed the nation’s first municipal ordinance banning BDS (December 2015) and became the first elected official in the U.S. to codify the IHRA definition of antisemitism (December 2017).
He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and is a national board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
In recognition of his work, Gabe received the Pursuit of Justice Award from the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in 2018 and the Voices of Iron Award from the Israeli Knesset in 2025 for his unwavering defense of Israel and the Jewish people.
Gabe earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law. He lives in Bal Harbour with his wife Lisa and their five daughters.
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Lawrence VanDyke serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to that appointment in January 2020, he served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice. Before that, he served consecutively as the Solicitor General of two western states – Nevada and Montana. At the beginning of his legal career, he worked as an attorney in the Appellate and Constitutional Issues practice group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP.
Judge VanDyke received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. He has engineering and theology undergraduate degrees and a masters degree in engineering management. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge VanDyke and his wife Cheryl live in Reno, Nevada, and they have three children.
Attorney, Hicks Thomas LLP
Associate Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
Bryan K. Gould is the 112th Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Justice Gould was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on September 18, 2025 after confirmation by the Executive Council. Justice Gould was nominated to the bench by Governor Kelly Ayotte. Prior to his appointment, Justice Gould practiced law in New Hampshire for more than 35 years, primarily in the field of civil litigation. He represented a diverse array of clients before state and federal courts and state administrative tribunals. Justice Gould’s law practice included commercial litigation, appellate litigation, state and federal constitutional law, municipal law, land-use law, election law, and environmental law. He also represented clients before the New Hampshire legislature with respect to legislation affecting their interests. Justice Gould previously served as special counsel both to New Hampshire Governor Craig Benson and to the New Hampshire Executive Council. Justice Gould received his Bachelor of Science degree from Utah State University in 1980 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah College of Law in 1984.
General Counsel & Wealth Advisor, Ullmann Wealth Partners
Patrick Kilbane is the General Counsel and a Wealth Advisor for Ullmann Wealth Partners headquartered in Jacksonville Beach, FL. Ullmann Wealth Partners is an independent wealth management firm that manages half a billion dollars of client assets in custody at Fidelity. Before joining Ullmann Wealth Partners, Pat was a Shareholder at Gray Robinson, P.A. where he had a thriving specialty litigation practice. Pat was recognized multiple times by Florida Trend and Super Lawyers Magazine for his skills and professionalism.
Pat serves the Northeast Florida Region in several roles. He’s received five gubernatorial appointments to the Judicial Nominating Commission for Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit and the Jacksonville Aviation Authority Board of Directors. His fellow board members elected him Chairman of both boards. Further, Pat is the President of the Jacksonville Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society. In 2014-2015, Pat was elected President of the Young Lawyers Section of the Jacksonville Bar Association.
In 2005, Pat received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Notre Dame. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree, summa cum laude, from Adrian College, where he earned the full-ride, merit-based Dawson Scholarship and was named the Outstanding Graduate by faculty vote for the Class of 2002.
Justice, Florida Supreme Court
On May 23, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Justice Meredith L. Sasso to be the 93rd justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
Justice Sasso was raised in Tallahassee. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida in 2005 and her law degree from the University of Florida in 2008, where she was a member of the Justice Campbell Thornal Moot Court Board. She began her career in private practice, representing clients in large loss general liability, auto negligence, and complex commercial claims in state and federal courts at trial and on appeal. She also served as guardian ad litem, representing abused or neglected children.
In August 2016, Justice Sasso joined the Office of the General Counsel to Governor Rick Scott, serving as Chief Deputy General Counsel. In this role, she represented the Governor in litigation before the Florida Supreme Court, the First District Court of Appeal, and state and federal trial courts, among other duties. In January 2019, Governor Rick Scott appointed her to the Fifth District Court of Appeal. Governor Ron DeSantis recommissioned her to the newly created Sixth District Court of Appeal on January 1, 2023, where she was elected by her colleagues to serve as its first Chief Judge.
She is an appointed member of the Florida Bar Appellate Court Rules Committee. She is also a member of the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network and the Federalist Society.
Attorney General of Kentucky
On November 7, 2023, Russell Coleman was elected the 52nd Attorney General of Kentucky, winning 117 out of 120 counties.
Prior to that, Coleman spent most of the past two decades in public service. In 2017, he was nominated by President Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. In that capacity, he was the chief federal law enforcement officer for Kentucky's 53 western counties ranging from Louisville to the Jackson Purchase Region.
Coleman previously served as a Partner in the law firm of Frost, Brown, Todd; as a prosecutor in the Oldham Commonwealth's Attorney's Office; and as Legal Counsel to U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell.
A former FBI Special Agent, he was assigned to multiple field offices and served a temporary assignment in Iraq in support of the Global War on Terror. A significant spinal cord injury cut short his career with the FBI. After substantial therapy at Louisville’s Frazier Rehab Institute, Coleman learned to walk again.
Coleman was raised in Graves, Daviess, and Logan Counties, graduating from Logan County High School. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kentucky.
Russell lives in Oldham County with his wife, Ashley, and their three children.
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Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma
Founding Director of the Center for Energy Law and Policy, William & Mary Law School; Former Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Former Chairman, Virginia State Corporation Commission
Mark Christie is the Founding Director of the Center for Energy Law and Policy at William & Mary Law School. He also teaches courses on energy law at the law school as a visiting professor from practice.
Christie is a former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). He served as a FERC commissioner from January 2021 to August 2025, the final seven months as Chairman.
Prior to serving on FERC, Christie was the Chairman of the Virginia State Corporation Commission (Virginia SCC), on which he served as a commissioner for nearly 17 years. He was elected to the Virginia SCC, which regulates utilities, insurance and banking, three times by the Virginia legislature on bipartisan votes.
During Christie’s service as a state regulator, he was elected president of the Organization of PJM States, Inc. (OPSI), an organization of utility regulators representing the 13 states and the District of Columbia which participate in the PJM transmission and markets organization. He served for more than a decade on the OPSI governing board. Christie also served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners (MACRUC), a regional chapter of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).
Former Chairman Christie taught regulatory law for a decade as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Law and constitutional law and government for 20 years in a doctoral program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Christie received his law degree from Georgetown University and his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University, where he graduated Magna cum Laude and earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. To help pay for college, he worked as an underground coal miner during summers.
He served as an officer in the U. S. Marine Corps. Semper fi.
Over the course of a legal career spanning more than four decades, Richard Cullen has built an exemplary record of consequential public service and distinguished private practice.
Mr. Cullen joined McGuireWoods in 1977. His wide-ranging practice has included complex commercial litigation, high profile government investigations, and white-collar defense. He led the firm as Chairman for over ten years.
Since joining McGuireWoods, Mr. Cullen has taken leave several times for significant public service assignments. In 1987, he served as special counsel to U.S. Senator Paul Trible, Jr. during the Iran-Contra investigation. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1991 as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, serving until 1993.
In 1997, Governor George Allen appointed Mr. Cullen Attorney General of Virginia to fill the unexpired term of Jim Gilmore, who had resigned to run for governor. Mr. Cullen was a member of George W. Bush’s legal team for the Florida recount during the 2000 presidential election and Vice President Mike Pence’s legal team following the 2016 presidential election. Mr. Cullen has for the last four years served as Counselor to Governor Glenn Youngkin.
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