NATIONAL STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION JURY
Chair: Philip G. McCarthey
Trustee
McCarthey Family Foundation
Robert Austin
Education Specialist
Utah State Office of Education
Richard Badenhausen
Honors College Dean
Westminster College
Leslie Francis
Emery Distinguished Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University of Utah
Jodi Graham
Executive Director
Utah Humanities
Heidi Legg
Host of SWING STATE podcast, Founder of TheEditorial.com
media theorist
Thomas A. Lund
Professor, College Of Law
University of Utah
Mark Matheson
Professor, English
University of Utah
Chris Matthews
Author, Journalist, Hosted “Hardball,” Lecturer at Fulbright University
Carmen Nobel
Program Director
Journalist’s Resource, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Bill Plante
Veteran journalist, former CBS News Senior White House Correspondent
David Plazas
Director of Opinion and Engagement, The Tennessean
Marjorie Pritchard
Op Ed Page Editor
Boston Globe
Noella Sudbury, J.D.
Founder
Sudbury Consulting
Sylvia Torti
Honors College Dean
University of Utah