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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
William R. Brody, M.D.
President
  ~  The Johns Hopkins University
JOHN F. YOUNG
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Future Holdings

 

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
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
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
  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.
  GEORGE W. BUSH
Governor of Texas
  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
  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
  MARSHA EVANS
President ~ American Red Cross
  FRANK G. ZARB
Chairman ~ National Association of Securities Dealers,
Parent of the NASDAQ Market
  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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