Learn about the mission of The Dick Thornburgh Forum at a glance.
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February 4, 2021 LIVE STREAM 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. David Thornburgh, President and CEO of The Committee of Seventy....Learn more >
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December 1, 2020. Lisa Scales, CEO & President, Greater Pittburgh Community Food Bank....Learn more >
This award recognizes an outstanding Federal Prosecutor in the Western District of Pennsylvania....Learn more >
November 17, 2020. Bobbi Watt Geer, CEO and President of United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania....Learn more >
Susanne Sachsman Grooms, Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the House Committee on Oversight and Reform....Learn more >
Advisory Committee member features
Mr. David Thornburgh, Mr. David H. Ehrenwerth, and Mr. Sam Zacharias co-chair the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law & Public Policy.
David H. Ehrenwerth
Partner/K&L Gates-Pittsburgh Office View Profile
Sam Zacharias.
Sam is the co-founder and principal of Gateway Financial Group, Inc., which is located in Pittsburgh. View Profile
David Thornburgh
President and CEO of the Committee of Seventy. David is the second eldest son of Dick and Ginny Thornburgh.View Profile
Mark Nordenberg serves as Director
The Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law &
Public Policy will
continue its mission of fostering public education and civic action on
important public policy issues under the stewardship of Chancellor Emeritus
Mark Nordenberg and the University of Pittsburgh Institute of
Politics. Nordenberg, who chairs the Institute of Politics
(IOP), succeeds Ed McCord, formerly the associate dean of the Honors College,
who retired this past summer after serving as the Forum’s director since 2010. Learn more using this link.