Renaissance Weekend

Renaissance Weekend

Illustrative List of Past Participants

Presidents, Prime Ministers, Cabinet Secretaries, Government Ministers & Governors
Some professional notes below reflect past roles.
Gerald Baliles
Former Virginia Governor
Evan Bayh
US Senator and former Indiana Governor
Charles Bolden
Administrator, NASA/Former Astronaut & Marine Corps General
Carol Mosley Braun
Former US Senator
William Brock
Former US Secretary of Labor, Trade Representative & Senator and Chairman, National Republican Party
Richard Bryan
Former US Senator & Nevada Governor
Kim Campbell
Former Canadian Prime Minister
Richard Celeste
Former US Ambassador to India & Ohio Governor; President, Colorado College
Stephen Chu
US Secretary of Energy/Former Director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory/Physics Nobel Laureate
Max Cleland
Former US Secretary of Veterans Affairs & US Senator
William Clinton
Former US President & Arkansas Governor
Hillary Clinton
US Secretary of State/former US Senator
John Dawkins
Former Australian Finance & Education Minister
Howard Dean
Chm., Democratic National Committee; Former Vermont Governor & Physician
Fred Dent
Former US Commerce Secretary
Brian Dorgan
US Senator
Pete DuPont
Former Delaware Governor
David Freudenthal
Wyoming Governor; Former Chairman, Western Governors Assn.
Jim Gilmore
Former Virginia Governor and Chm., Republican National Committee
Bob Graham
Former US Senator & Florida Governor
Alan Greenspan
Former Chm., Federal Reserve Board
Alexis Herman
Corporate Director/Former US Secretary of Labor
Ernest (Fritz) Hollings
Former US Senator & South Carolina Governor
Linwood Holton
Former Virginia Governor & US Assistant Secretary of State
Jon Huntsman
US Ambassador to China/Former Utah Governor & US Ambassador to Singapore
Robert Jordan
Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia & Dir., John Tower Ctr. for Political Studies
Dirk Kempthorne
Former US Interior Secretary, US Senator & Idaho Governor
Madeleine Kunin
Former Vermont Governor & US Ambassador to Switzerland
Richard Lamm
Former Colorado Governor
Manuel Lujan
Former US Secretary of Interior & Congressman
Ray Mabus
US Secretary of the Navy/Former Mississippi Governor & US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Lynn Martin
Former US Secretary of Labor & Congresswoman
David Miliband
UK Foreign Secretary
Janet Napolitano
US Secretary of Homeland Security; former Arizona Governor
Leon Panetta
Director, CIA/Former White House Chief of Staff, OMB Director & US Congressman
Deval Patrick
Massachusetts Governor/Former US Asst. Atty.-Gen. & General Counsel, Coca-Cola Co.
Andrew Peacock
Former Australian Foreign Secretary & Ambassador to US
William Perry
Former US Secretary of Defense
David Pryor
Former US Senator & Arkansas Governor
Bill Richardson
New Mexico Governor/Former US Energy Secretary, Ambassador to UN and Congressman
Richard Riley
Former US Secretary of Education & SC Governor
Charles Robb
Former US Senator and Virginia Governor
Mark Sanford
South Carolina Governor and former US Congressman; former Chm., Republican Governors Assn
Bob Scott
Former North Carolina Governor
Rodney Slater
Former US Secretary of Transportation
Lawrence Summers
Director, National Economic Council; former US Secretary of the Treasury and President, Harvard University
Dick Thornburgh
Former US Attoney General, Pennsylvania Governor & UN Under Secretary-General
Mark Udall
US Senator
Tom Udall
US Senator
Tom Vilsack
US Secretary of Agriculture; former Iowa Governor
William Winter
Former Mississippi Governor
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