Justice Evan A. Young was appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas in November 2021 by Governor Greg Abbott. Justice Young subsequently was elected in November 2022 to a term that expires December 31, 2028.

Justice Young clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and served as Counsel to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, during which time he spent nearly a year based at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, helping lead the U.S. Government’s Rule of Law mission.

He joined the law firm Baker Botts L.L.P. and served as chair of the firm’s Supreme Court and Constitutional Law practice group. Justice Young, who served as a member of the Texas Judicial Council from 2017 until his appointment to the Supreme Court, is a former chair of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Texas Regional Office, a member of the Supreme Court Advisory Committee, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Law.

Justice Young received Bachelor of Arts degrees from Duke University and from Oxford University, where he was a British Marshall Scholar, and his law degree from Yale Law School. He is a graduate of Tom C. Clark High School in San Antonio and now resides in Austin with his wife, Tobi, and their daughter.

For fifty years, historian and journalist Richard Brookhiser has covered everything from the Jamestown Colony to pandemics past and present. He is the biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, James Madison and Abraham Lincoln. Most recently, he was the author of “Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution.” He is a senior editor of National Review and a columnist for American History. In 2008 he was awarded the National Medal for the Humanities. He was also the writer and host of the documentary, “Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty.”

Leo Eaton was an Emmy award-winning filmmaker who wrote, produced, directed and executive produced TV series and specials for U.S. and foreign broadcasters for more than three decades. Most recently, Eaton produced, directed the documentary “Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty.” Previously, he executive produced the PBS/BBC 6-part series Story of China and wrote and directed the PBS special Weekend in Havana (all these projects incorporate the ‘history in the present’ narrative style). Other notable work for PBS includes Arts & the Mind, Homeland: Immigration in America and In Search of Ancient Ireland. Eaton produced National Geographic Channel’s Emmy® award-winning Can the Gulf Survive about the BP oil spill, executive produced The Story of India for PBS & BBC-TV, produced PBS’s groundbreaking 21-hour series America at a Crossroads, and co-created the Canadian/US Emmy® award-winning children’s series Zoboomafoo among many other works. Eaton passed away in March 2022.

John Paulson is a veteran creator of documentaries, biographies, and performing arts specials, many of them for public television. Currently he is completing a film on Virgil Thomson, a composer who ranks alongside Copland and Bernstein as a 20th Century master and who more than anyone else originated the American sound in classical music. Paulson produced the television specials, Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like, a Primetime Emmy Award nominee, What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David, and JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala, featuring long-lost footage from the 1961 pre-inaugural concert. He also directed A Raisin in the Sun Revisited, celebrating the legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, and the classical concert program, HOMECOMING: The Kansas City Symphony & Joyce DiDonato. Paulson’s critically acclaimed American Masters biography, Les Paul Chasing Sound, in addition to its Primetime Emmy nomination, also received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Paulson spent more than a decade with the Smithsonian Institution where he produced award-winning media for museum exhibition and television broadcast. Among his work was the acclaimed film, Woody Guthrie Legacy, and a trio of programs celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano: the concert special Piano Grand!, the documentary People and Pianos: 300 Years, and the exhibit film Piano 300. His programs for Maryland Public Television capturing the diverse landscapes and cultures of the Chesapeake Bay region have earned eleven Emmy Awards (NCCB). Paulson is a member of the Director’s Guild of America, and teaches Filmmaking for Public Television in the graduate School of Communication, American University, Washington, D.C.

Barbara Ballow is an award-winning DC-based editor who has been telling compelling stories for more than three decades.  Ballow has cut many of Leo Eaton’s documentaries, including Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty, Weekend in Havana, Sacred Journeys, Arts & the Mind, In Search of Ancient Ireland and Emmy® award-winning Can the Gulf Survive.  Ballow’s work includes programs for Frontline and America at a Crossroads for PBS, Autism is a World for CNN (nominated for an Academy Award), multiple specials and series for National Geographic Channel, and also The Kennedy Center Honors, for which she also won an Emmy.