Vice President, Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law, Advancing American Freedom
John G. Malcolm oversees Advancing American Freedom’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law as Vice President of the organization’s Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law. Malcolm brings to the challenge a wealth of legal expertise and experience in both the public and private sectors.
Prior to joining Advancing American Freedom in 2025, Malcolm was the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government and the Director of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Prior to joining Heritage in 2012, Malcolm was general counsel at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, as well as a distinguished practitioner in residence at Pepperdine Law School. From 2004 to 2009, Malcolm was executive vice president and director of worldwide anti-piracy operations for the Motion Picture Association.
Malcolm served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division from 2001 to 2004, where he oversaw sections on computer crime and intellectual property, domestic security, child exploitation and obscenity, and special investigations. Immediately prior to that, he was a founding partner in the Atlanta law firm of Malcolm & Schroeder, LLP.
From 1990 to 1997, Malcolm was an assistant U.S. attorney in Atlanta, assigned to the fraud and public corruption section, and also an associate independent counsel, investigating fraud and abuse in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was honored with the Director’s Award for Superior Performance for his work in connection with the successful prosecution of Walter Leroy Moody Jr., who assassinated an 11th Circuit judge and the head of the Savannah chapter of the NAACP.
A graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia College, Malcolm began his career as a law clerk to a federal district court judge and a federal appellate court judge, and as an associate at the Atlanta-based law firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan (new Eversheds Sutherland).
Malcolm, who resides in Washington, D.C., serves on the Board of Trustees of the Washington National Opera and is a Senate-confirmed member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of civil legal aid in the United States.
Associate Dean for Academic Advancement and Director, Center for, Seton Hall University School of Law
Professor Kathleen Boozang went to Seton Hall in 1990 as the founder of the Law School’s now top-ranked health law program. Professor Boozang teaches a variety of health law courses in person and on-line including the survey health law course, a course on health care fraud in the life sciences industry, and death and dying. In her scholarship, Professor Boozang has dedicated much of her career to nonprofit governance issues with a special focus on religiously sponsored hospitals. In the last several years, however, she has expanded her research and teaching to explore the legal and policy issues related to the global pharmaceutical and medtech industries, many of which make New Jersey their headquarters.
Professor Boozang is a Fellow of The Hastings Center, an independent nonprofit bioethics research institute, as well as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of legal practitioners. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and participates on the consultant group for the Principles of Nonprofit Law. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law and is a past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. She is past president of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and also previously sat on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Health Law. Professor Boozang served for many years on the serves on the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association, and remains involved in many AHLA projects.
Throughout her legal career, Professor Boozang has been active in public service. She has served on numerous advisory boards and committees for healthcare providers and for the states of New Jersey and New York, including serving as an advisor to the New Jersey Attorney General Task Force on Physician Compensation by Pharmaceutical Companies, which resulted in the promulgation of proposed regulation. She is a former member of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, an interdisciplinary commission with a mandate to develop public policy on bioethical issues.
Professor Boozang currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the St. Joseph Healthcare System in New Jersey and the Crisis Standards Committee of the New Jersey Department of Health. Professor Boozang currently serves as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Academic Advancement with responsibility for the Division of Corporate and Foundations, the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, and the Division of Online Learning. Professor Boozang served as the Vice Provost of Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey in 2010 and 2011. Prior to moving to the university’s main campus, Professor Boozang served for eight years as the Law School’s Associate Dean, and then for two years as the Associate Dean for Academic Advancement, with oversight of two of the Law School’s Centers of Excellence: the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology, and the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy.
In 2013, ASLME conferred upon Professor Boozang the Jay Healy Health Law Teacher Award. Professor Boozang was named the Seton Hall University Woman of the Year in 2006 and the Washington University Law School’s Young Alum of the Year in 2004. She graduated from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as the managing editor of LAW QUARTERLY. She received her LL.M. from Yale Law School in 1990.
Partner, Keller & Heckman LLP
Sheila Millar joined Keller and Heckman in 1980. Ms. Millar counsels corporate and association clients on advertising, privacy, product safety, and other public policy and regulatory compliance issues.
Ms. Millar counsels clients on advertising issues, working on policy questions, as well as claims and advertising challenges. She helps clients develop privacy policies, data security and access procedures, manage trans-border data flows and create training programs. She also works with clients to navigate the array of federal and state requirements related to contests and sweepstakes. Ms. Millar has special expertise in all issues related to the sale, advertising and marketing of children's products, and has appeared at Federal Trade Commission (FTC) workshops on advertising literacy and children's privacy.
Ms. Millar counsels clients on risk management and product safety strategies, as well as on compliance with Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requirements, including new requirements under the Consumer Product Safety Improvements Act (CPSIA), green chemistry and other product safety laws. Ms. Millar's environmental regulatory expertise includes ozone depletion, global warming, clean air matters, energy use and green claims.
Ms. Millar chairs the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Marketing and Advertising Commission Working Group on Sustainability and has represented the ICC at international intergovernmental meetings on environmental marketing. She is a frequent speaker at conferences on product safety, advertising law and environmental regulation, and has authored many articles. Ms. Millar is AV® PreeminentTM Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Executive Vice President, The Federalist Society
Dean Reuter is Executive Vice President at the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. He has served in two federal government agency Offices of the Inspector General, as Counsel to the Inspector General and Deputy Inspector General, responsible for policing the use of federal funds granted and contracted through those agencies. As such, he helped conduct and oversee criminal investigations across the country. He is the principal author of the non-fiction book, The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil, and editor of Liberty’s Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State and Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security. He was appointed by the President and served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and recently served as an appointee on the U.S. Commission on Presidential Scholars. He is a graduate of Hood College (BA with Honors) and the University of Maryland School of Law.
Associate Dean for Academic Advancement and Director, Center for, Seton Hall University School of Law
Professor Kathleen Boozang went to Seton Hall in 1990 as the founder of the Law School’s now top-ranked health law program. Professor Boozang teaches a variety of health law courses in person and on-line including the survey health law course, a course on health care fraud in the life sciences industry, and death and dying. In her scholarship, Professor Boozang has dedicated much of her career to nonprofit governance issues with a special focus on religiously sponsored hospitals. In the last several years, however, she has expanded her research and teaching to explore the legal and policy issues related to the global pharmaceutical and medtech industries, many of which make New Jersey their headquarters.
Professor Boozang is a Fellow of The Hastings Center, an independent nonprofit bioethics research institute, as well as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of legal practitioners. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and participates on the consultant group for the Principles of Nonprofit Law. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law and is a past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. She is past president of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and also previously sat on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Health Law. Professor Boozang served for many years on the serves on the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association, and remains involved in many AHLA projects.
Throughout her legal career, Professor Boozang has been active in public service. She has served on numerous advisory boards and committees for healthcare providers and for the states of New Jersey and New York, including serving as an advisor to the New Jersey Attorney General Task Force on Physician Compensation by Pharmaceutical Companies, which resulted in the promulgation of proposed regulation. She is a former member of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, an interdisciplinary commission with a mandate to develop public policy on bioethical issues.
Professor Boozang currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the St. Joseph Healthcare System in New Jersey and the Crisis Standards Committee of the New Jersey Department of Health. Professor Boozang currently serves as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Academic Advancement with responsibility for the Division of Corporate and Foundations, the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, and the Division of Online Learning. Professor Boozang served as the Vice Provost of Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey in 2010 and 2011. Prior to moving to the university’s main campus, Professor Boozang served for eight years as the Law School’s Associate Dean, and then for two years as the Associate Dean for Academic Advancement, with oversight of two of the Law School’s Centers of Excellence: the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology, and the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy.
In 2013, ASLME conferred upon Professor Boozang the Jay Healy Health Law Teacher Award. Professor Boozang was named the Seton Hall University Woman of the Year in 2006 and the Washington University Law School’s Young Alum of the Year in 2004. She graduated from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as the managing editor of LAW QUARTERLY. She received her LL.M. from Yale Law School in 1990.
Partner, Keller & Heckman LLP
Sheila Millar joined Keller and Heckman in 1980. Ms. Millar counsels corporate and association clients on advertising, privacy, product safety, and other public policy and regulatory compliance issues.
Ms. Millar counsels clients on advertising issues, working on policy questions, as well as claims and advertising challenges. She helps clients develop privacy policies, data security and access procedures, manage trans-border data flows and create training programs. She also works with clients to navigate the array of federal and state requirements related to contests and sweepstakes. Ms. Millar has special expertise in all issues related to the sale, advertising and marketing of children's products, and has appeared at Federal Trade Commission (FTC) workshops on advertising literacy and children's privacy.
Ms. Millar counsels clients on risk management and product safety strategies, as well as on compliance with Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requirements, including new requirements under the Consumer Product Safety Improvements Act (CPSIA), green chemistry and other product safety laws. Ms. Millar's environmental regulatory expertise includes ozone depletion, global warming, clean air matters, energy use and green claims.
Ms. Millar chairs the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Marketing and Advertising Commission Working Group on Sustainability and has represented the ICC at international intergovernmental meetings on environmental marketing. She is a frequent speaker at conferences on product safety, advertising law and environmental regulation, and has authored many articles. Ms. Millar is AV® PreeminentTM Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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