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Dallas Friday Group members and their guests meet once a month at noontime to hear from distinguished speakers. These have included national elected officials, key business figures, political analysts and other experts whose experiences and observations broaden our perspectives. Our subject matter ranges from the Texas political scene to matters of international import. Here is a sample of our past speakers:

 

HONORABLE JAMES C. OBERWETTER
Former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON
Chairman, President and CEO
AT&T
WILLIAM D. BRODY, M.D.
President  ~  The Johns Hopkins University
JOHN F. YOUNG
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Future Holdings

 
Mary Peters HONORABLE MARY E. PETERS
United States Secretary
of Transportation 

 
HONORABLE KAREN HUGHES
Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

 
MAJ. GEN. JEFFREY TALLEY

Chairman, SMU Lyle School of Engineering and

Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship

 

Leader of "engineering the peace" in Sadr City
ROBERT DECHERD
Chairman, President and CEO
A.H. Belo Corp.
JIM LEHRER
Host ~ The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

PBS
HONORABLE RICHARD FISHER
 President ~ Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
KEVIN B. PHILLIPS
Author, Historian, Economist, Commentator
Champion corruption fighter

ALAN L. BOECKMANN

Chairman and CEO

Fluor Corporation

 
JAMES MANN
 

NYT Best-Selling Author and

Author-in-residence at

The Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool for Advanced International Studies
President and CEO of the National Urban League, Marc H. Morial MARC MORIAL
President and CEO
National Urban League
MICHAEL DELL
 Chairman/C.E.O. ~ Dell Computer
Corporation
HONORABLE JOHN F. LEHMAN
 Member, 9/11 Commission
Former Secretary of the Navy
JOHN J. CASTELLANI
President and CEO
Business Roundtable
HONORABLE SUSAN COMBS
Texas State Comptroller
CARL P. LEUBSDORF
Washington Bureau Chief
Dallas Morning News
ARTHUR LEVITT
 Chairman ~  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
JOHN HOFMEISTER
 President ~ Shell Oil Company
GERALDINE "TINCY" MILLER
Texas State Board of Education
RICHARD A. GRASSO
 Chairman/C.E.O. ~ New York Stock Exchange
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
 United States Senator ~ Texas
GEORGE NOLEN
 President and CEO ~ Siemens USA
FRANK L. BOWMAN
 CEO ~ Nuclear Energy Institute
WILLIAM SCHNEIDER
Senior Political Analyst ~ CNN
T. BOONE PICKENS
Chairman
Mesa Water

 
Photo: Photographer Flip Nicklin FLIP NICKLIN
Internationally-known
Whale Photographer,
National Geographic
Society

 
  STEVEN B. HANTLER
 President ~ American Justice Partnership
http://www.thecinemasource.com/v3/list/news.php?filterkey=C JACK VALENTI
 Chairman/C.E.O. ~ Motion Picture Association
  MIKE SLOAN
 Managing Director  ~  The Wind Coalition of Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico
SHARON ALLEN
 Chairman ~ Deloitte & Touche
THOMAS LEPPERT
 Chairman and CEO ~ Turner Corporation
ELLYN A. McCOLGAN
 President ~ Fidelity Brokerage Company
EDWARD M. LIDDY
 Chairman and CEO ~ The Allstate Corporation
MICHAEL L. ESKEW
 Chairman and CEO ~ UPS
JEFF D. MORRIS
 President and CEO ~ ALON USA Energy, Inc.
HON. ROYCE WEST (D)
Texas Senate
District 23

 
HON DAN BRANCH (R)
Texas House of Representatives
District 108
George W. Bush HON. GEORGE W. BUSH
 Governor of Texas
HON. JOHN CARONA
Texas Senate

 
HON RAFAEL ANCHIA
Texas House of Representatives
  HONORABLE CAROLE KEETON STRAYHORN
 Comptroller ~ State of Texas
  WILLIAM A. BLASE, JR.
 President and CEO ~ SBC Communications Southwest
Myles Brand DR. MYLES BRAND
 President ~ National Collegiate Athletic Association
Fred Smith FRED L. SMITH, Jr.
 Founder and President ~ Competitive Enterprise Institute
GARY D. FORSEE
 Chairman/CEO ~ Sprint
JOHN D. GOODMAN, Jr
 President and Founder ~ National Center for Policy Analysis
Sidney Taurel SIDNEY TAUREL
 Chairman and CEO ~ Eli Lilly & Co.
  DENNIS NALLY
 Chairman ~ PricewaterhouseCoopers
 

Robert L. Woodson Sr. is founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Washington, D.C.

 

 ROBERT  L. WOODSON, SR.
Founder and CEO
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise
  KNIGHT KIPLINGER
 Editor-in-chief ~ Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Lockheed Martin CEO Vance Coffman speaks at a Wharton Management lecture on Wednesday. (Samantha Simon/The Daily Pennsylvanian) VANCE COFFMAN, Ph.D.
 Chairman and CEO ~ Lockheed Martin Corporation
Terry D. Garcia TERRY D. GARCIA
 Executive Vice President ~ National Geographic Society
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/12/duPont_winners.html BOB SCHIEFFER
 CBS Washington Bureau Chief ~ Host, "Face the Nation"
  DELOS R. SMITH
 Senior Business Analyst ~ The Conference Board
  HERB KELLEHER
 Chairman ~ Southwest Airlines
Robert Ballard ROBERT BALLARD
 Explorer and Discoverer of the Titanic
  MOLLY IVINS
Political Columnist and Humorist
EDWARD RENDELL
 Mayor ~ City of Philadelphia
  HONORABLE ALPHONSO JACKSON
 Secretary ~ U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  FRANK G. ZARB
 Chairman ~ National Association of Securities Dealers,
Parent of the NASDAQ Market
  DALE PETROSKEY
President
Baseball Hall of Fame
  WILLIAM D. NOVELLI
 Chief Executive Officer AARP
  ROBERT BEST
 Chairman and CEO ~ Atmos Energy Corp. and Chairman, American Gas Association
  JAMES R. JONES
 U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
  ROBERT KRUEGER
 U.S. Ambassador to Botswana
  VICENTE FOX
 Governor ~ Guanajuata, Mexico
  KARL ROVE
 Political Consultant
  LYNNE CHENEY
 Fellow ~ American Enterprise Institute
  PHILIP S. ANDERSON
 President ~ American Bar Association
  THOMAS ENGIBOUS
 Chairman ~ Texas Instruments
  ERLE NYE
 Chairman ~ Texas Utilities
  DAGOBERTO RODRIGUEZ
 Chief, Cuban Interests Section ~ Washington, D.C.
  LINO GUTIERREZ
 Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State ~ Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
  FRANK KEATING
 Governor of Oklahoma
  IRVING WEISER
 President ~ Securities Industry Association

 

 

 

 
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