Roger Mudd to Moderate Discussion on Crisis Leadership at University of Richmond
March 15, 2004
Five-time Emmy Award-winner Roger Mudd will moderate a discussion on "Leadership in Times of Crisis" March 30 at the University of Richmond. The program is part of the 2003-04 Jepson Leadership Forum sponsored by the Jepson School of Leadership Studies.
The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Modlin Center for the Arts. Tickets are free but required. They may be reserved by calling the box office at (804) 289-8980.
Joining Mudd will be James Blight, professor of international relations at Brown University; former Virginia Attorney General Mary Sue Terry; Richard Thornburgh, governor of Pennsylvania during the Three Mile Island disaster and bankruptcy examiner during the WorldCom crisis; and Eugene W. Hickok, U.S. undersecretary of education and acting deputy secretary.
Mudd was a congressional and national affairs correspondent for CBS,
chief Washington and political correspondent and co-anchor of "Nightly
News" and "Meet the Press" for NBC, and an essayist and
correspondent for the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." He began his
career as a reporter at The Richmond News Leader and radio station WRNL
in Richmond. Currently Mudd serves as documentary host on The History
Channel. Besides his five Emmys, he has received the George Foster Peabody
Award and the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting.
Blight has undertaken several critical oral history projects, including
studies of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the collapse of U.S.-Soviet détente
and the war in Vietnam. He was a consultant to the documentary film "Fog
of War," which won the 2004 Academy Award for best documentary. The
film was based on the book "Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of
Conflict, Killing and Catastrophe in the 21st Century" by Blight
and Robert S. McNamara.
Terry is the first woman to hold an elected statewide office in Virginia and the second woman in the country to be elected attorney general. During her tenure, she was elected president of the National Association of Attorneys General and received that organization's highest honor, the Wyman Award, for distinguished achievements.
Thornburgh served two terms as governor of Pennsylvania and was the United States attorney general from 1988-91. He also served as under-secretary-general of the United Nations and was attorney general for the Western district of Pennsylvania.
Hickok formerly was secretary of education for Pennsylvania, where he helped implement education reforms, including a stronger accountability system; locally designed charter public schools; stronger reading, literacy and library programs; and a model education technology initiative.