WASHINGTON, Dec. 14,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federalist Society's Board
of Directors is delighted to announce that Sheldon Gilbert will become its second president
on January 2, 2025. Gilbert,
currently Walmart's Senior Lead Counsel for Strategic Initiatives,
will succeed Eugene B. Meyer, who
has served as Executive Director, CEO, and/or President of the
organization for more than 40 years.
"Sheldon is a superb choice to take over as President of the
Federalist Society," said co-chairman of the Board of Directors
Steven Calabresi. "His
boundless energy and enthusiasm and deep engagement with all
segments of the legal community, including different strands of the
conservative and libertarian legal movement, make him the right
person to lead the Federalist Society at this time."
"Sheldon is both a thinker and a doer," said co-chairman of the
Board Leonard Leo. "His unmatched strategic sense,
entrepreneurial mindset, leadership qualities, and vision make him
uniquely qualified for leading the generational change the Society
is poised to begin while preserving the Society's core assets and
commitments."
"We are delighted to welcome Sheldon, who is joining the
organization at a pivotal moment," said outgoing President
Eugene Meyer. "He shares a deep
commitment to our mission and purpose, to provide a forum for fair,
serious, and open debate about the role of the courts in saying
what the law is rather than what they wish it to be, and to the
centrality of the rule of law in protecting individual freedom and
traditional values. It's been an honor to have served over many
decades. I am grateful to my colleagues, our members and those who
have supported this mission over the years."
"The Federalist Society's strength comes from our members, and
I'm proud to work alongside them to promote the Society's founding
principles and provide a thoughtful forum for discussion and
debate," said Gilbert. "It's an honor to serve our
members—including law school students and faculty, public servants
in every branch of government, and private sector and non-profit
lawyers—who tirelessly and fearlessly work to defend the
Constitution, preserve freedom, and promote the rule of law."
Before joining Walmart, Gilbert served as Vice President for
Content and Development and Senior Fellow for Constitutional
Studies at the National Constitution Center, as Director for the
Institute for Justice's Center for Judicial Engagement, and as
Associate Chief Counsel for Litigation at the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce's Litigation Center. He is a graduate of the
George Washington University Law School
and the University of Utah.
Gilbert is married with four children, and is himself a child of
the Mountain West, where he was born in a coal mining town in
Utah and raised in Idaho near the Grand Tetons. Before going to
law school, Sheldon's diverse interests led him to work in a wide
range of roles, from software development project management for a
nonprofit, to working in his University's radiobiology research
lab, to volunteer service in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil for his church. Gilbert was selected
following a nationwide search by the Board's Presidential Search
Committee, with key support from Andrea
McDaniel Smith, a partner at CarterBaldwin Executive
Search.
Founded by law students from around the country in 1982, the
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of
conservatives and libertarians dedicated to reforming the current
legal order. Under Eugene Meyer's
leadership, the organization has grown from a small group of law
students to a community of 90,000 lawyers, law students, academics,
judges, and others interested in the rule of law.
Founded in 1982, the Federalist Society for
Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and
libertarians dedicated to reforming the current legal order. We are
committed to the principles that the state exists to preserve
freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to
our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty
of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The
Society seeks to promote awareness of these principles and to
further their application through its activities.
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