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This new award is available each year to a University of Pittsburgh student from any campus whose service has made a difference in the lives of children and adults with disabilities....Learn more >
Share your good wishes, reminiscences, anecdotes, or actions that may have been inspired by Dick on his 85th birthday....Learn more >
Sept. 11, 2017. Christine Todd Whitman, President of the Whitman Strategy Group and former Governor of New Jersey....Learn more >
April 13, 2017. Mayor William Peduto presented, Pittsburgh - The Resilient City....Learn more >
The Dick Thornburgh Summer Fellowship award....Learn more >
February 22, 2017. Michael Missal, Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs....Learn more >
Advisory Committee member features
Mr. David H. Ehrenwerth is a co-chair of the Thornburgh Forum Advisory Committee along with Mr. Sam Zacharias.
David H. Ehrenwerth
Partner/K&L Gates-Pittsburgh Office
By Presidential appointment, Mr. Ehrenwerth served from 2010 to 2012 as Associate Commissioner of the United States Public Buildings Service and previously as Regional Administrator of the General Services Administration. View Profile
Sam Zacharias is a co-chair of the Thornburgh Forum for
Law and Public Policy. Sam is the co-founder and principal of Gateway
Financial Group, Inc., which is located in Pittsburgh. View Profile
Message from the Director
The Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy supports a wide variety of programs that reflect the aspirations for public service of Governor Thornburgh in an extraordinary life of leadership. It is not an instrument of a single administrative unit but a versatile association of programs anchored throughout the campus. Among its goals are to promote able and principled governance at all levels, to advance the rule of law at home and abroad, and to assist the government’s response to the special needs of persons with disabilities, many of them wounded in service to our country. Read More
