9/11 Commission - Members

Members

  • Thomas Kean (Chairman) - Republican, former Governor of New Jersey
  • Lee H. Hamilton (Vice Chairman) - Democrat, former U.S. Representative from the 9th District of Indiana
  • Richard Ben-Veniste - Democrat, attorney, former chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office
  • Max Cleland - Democrat, former U.S. Senator from Georgia. Resigned December 2003, stating that "the White House has played cover-up"
  • Fred F. Fielding - Republican, attorney and former White House Counsel
  • Jamie Gorelick - Democrat, former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration
  • Slade Gorton - Republican, former U.S. Senator from Washington
  • Bob Kerrey - Democrat, President of the New School University and former U.S. Senator from Nebraska. Replaced Max Cleland as a Democratic Commissioner, after Cleland's resignation.
  • John F. Lehman - Republican, former Secretary of the Navy
  • Timothy J. Roemer - Democrat, former U.S. Representative from the 3rd District of Indiana
  • James R. Thompson - Republican, former Governor of Illinois

The members of the commission's staff included:

  • Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director/Chair
  • Christopher Kojm, Deputy Executive Director
  • Daniel Marcus, General Counsel
  • John J. Farmer, Senior Counsel
  • Janice Kephart, Counsel
  • Alvin S. Felzenberg, Spokesman

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