Common Good

Common Good is a nonprofit organization organization that focuses on health care, education, and civil justice.


 * Common Good is a United States nonprofit organization that advocates a basic shift in legal structures "to restore common sense to American law." The organization, founded in 2002 by Philip K. Howard, a lawyer and author of The Death of Common Sense, advocates, among other things, the creation of special health courts to address medical malpractice complaints. Pilot health courts are currently being designed by Common Good in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health.

Trustees
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 * Philip K. Howard, Chairman of the Board, Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling
 * Kim S. Fennebresque, Chairman and CEO, SG Cowen & Co., LLC
 * Eric Holder, Partner, Covington & Burling, former Deputy United States Attorney General
 * Anthony C. M. Kiser, President, The William & Mary Greve Foundation
 * Marc Lipschultz, Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
 * J. Michael Shepherd, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bank of the West
 * Scott F. Smith, Partner, Covington & Burling
 * Missie Rennie Taylor, Media Consultant

Advisory Board
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 * Howard H. Baker, Jr., former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to Japan
 * Griffin B. Bell, Partner, King & Spalding; former U.S. Attorney General and Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
 * Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and National Basketball Association player
 * William R. Brody, President, Johns Hopkins University
 * John C. Danforth, Partner, Bryan Cave; former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations
 * Christopher DeMuth, President, American Enterprise Institute
 * Alain C. Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Stanford University
 * Thomas F. Frist, Jr., Chairman, The Frist Foundation
 * Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
 * Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
 * Eric Holder, former Deputy U.S. Attorney General
 * Frank W. Hunger, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General
 * Robert D. Joffe, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
 * Robert A. Kagan, Professor of Political Science and Law, University of California, Berkeley
 * Harry P. Kamen, retired Chairman and CEO, MetLife
 * Tom Kean, Co-Chair, President, Drew University, and former Governor of New Jersey
 * Steven Kelman, Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, Harvard University
 * Charles Kolb, President, Committee for Economic Development
 * Shelly Lazarus, CEO, Ogilvy & Mather, and Chair, Board of Trustees, Smith College
 * Paul A. Marks, President Emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 * George McGovern, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
 * Lawrence J. Mone, President, The Manhattan Institute
 * Glen D. Nelson, Chairman, GDN Holdings, LLC
 * Jeffrey O'Connell, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law, University of Virginia
 * Margaret O'Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
 * Herbert Pardes, President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 * William A. Peck, Director, Washington University Center for Health Policy
 * Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, The Blackstone Group and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
 * Stephen Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University Law School
 * Diane Ravitch, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, and Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution
 * George Rupp, former President, Columbia University; President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
 * John Silber, President Emeritus, Boston University
 * Alan K. Simpson, former U.S. Senator
 * Shelby Steele, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
 * Richard Thornburgh, former U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania
 * Deborah Wadsworth, Senior Advisor and Board Member, Public Agenda
 * John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corp and former Deputy Secretary of State

Contact
477 Madison Avenue 7th Floor New York, NY 10022 Phone: (212) 681-8199 Fax: (212) 681-8221 Web: http://commongood.org