RIF is grateful to the leaders who helped to make the gala a success:

Leadership Committee Co-Chairs:
Carol H. Rasco, President and CEO, RIF
Vivian Creigton Bishop, Georgia
Gayle Wicker, Mississippi

Leadership Committee:
Honey Alexander 
Alexandra Armstrong, Chairman, Armstrong, Fleming & Moore, Inc.
Loretta Barrett, President, Loretta Barrett Books
Aurelia Benton, Meetings/Marketing Associate, COMPTEL
Elizabeth Brakebill, Ford Motor Company
Marcia Myers Carlucci
Carolyn Coburn
Katelin Dial
Robert S. Diamond
Diana Enzi
Kathleen Gregg
Marty Hinojosa
Carolyn Hobson
Roberta Horton, Arnold & Porter
Juanita T. James, Chief Communications Officer, Pitney Bowes Inc.
Charlene Lugar
William Madsen, IV, Newark RIF
Catherine Mason, Program Coordinator, Global Strategy Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Dr. Claude A. Mayberry, Jr., Founder and CEO, Science Weekly, Inc.
Margaret Wicker McPhillips, Office of Senator Thad Cochran
Alida Melancon, Louisiana
Emily Milward, Development Assistant, Annual Giving, The National Gallery of Art
Margaret McNamara Pastor
Pamela K. Pfeffer, The Pfeffer Foundation
John F. Remondi, PAR Capital Management, Inc.
Jean Hall Rutherfoord
Adriana Sahliyeh, Assistant Manager, Corporate and Foundation Relations, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Betty Ann Tanner
David Carl Weinstein, Executive Vice President, Fidelity Investments

Honorary Committee Co-Chairs:
The Honorable Thad Cochran The Honorable Elizabeth Dole The Honorable Tom Harkin The Honorable Rubén Hinojosa		The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson The Honorable Debbie Stabenow The Honorable Don Young

Honorary Committee:
The Honorable Neil Abercrombie The Honorable Gary L. Ackerman The Honorable Wayne Allard The Honorable Thomas H. Allen The Honorable Brian Baird The Honorable Tammy Baldwin The Honorable Max S. Baucus The Honorable Evan Bayh The Honorable Howard L. Berman The Honorable Timothy H. Bishop The Honorable John A. Boehner The Honorable Mary Bono The Honorable Leonard L. Boswell The Honorable Allen F. Boyd, Jr. The Honorable Michael C. Burgess The Honorable Lois Capps The Honorable Michael Capuano The Honorable Ben Cardin The Honorable Julia Carson The Honorable Saxby Chambliss The Honorable Steve Cohen The Honorable Norm Coleman The Honorable Mike Conaway The Honorable John Cornyn The Honorable Jim Costa The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings The Honorable Artur Davis The Honorable David Davis The Honorable Geoff Davis The Honorable Jo Ann S. Davis The Honorable Susan A. Davis The Honorable John D. Dingell The Honorable Lloyd Doggett The Honorable Byron Dorgan The Honorable Vernon J. Ehlers The Honorable Jo Ann Emerson The Honorable Elliot Engel The Honorable Michael Enzi The Honorable Chaka Fattah The Honorable Dianne Feinstein The Honorable Luis Fortuño The Honorable Scott Garrett The Honorable Jim Gerlach The Honorable Gabrielle Giffords The Honorable Paul E. Gillmor The Honorable Phil Gingrey The Honorable Virgil H. Goode, Jr. The Honorable Lindsey O. Graham The Honorable Kay Granger The Honorable Charles E. Grassley The Honorable Gene Green The Honorable Luis V. Gutierrez The Honorable Phil Hare The Honorable Jane Harman The Honorable Baron P. Hill The Honorable Paul Hodes The Honorable Peter Hoekstra The Honorable Tim Holden The Honorable Daniel Inouye The Honorable Darrell E. Issa The Honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr. The Honorable William J. Jefferson The Honorable Tim Johnson The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones The Honorable Walter B. Jones, Jr. The Honorable Jim Jordan The Honorable Marcy Kaptur The Honorable John Kerry The Honorable Ron J. Kind The Honorabel Joe Knollenberg The Honorable Herbert Kohl The Honorable Dennis Kucinich		The Honorable John Randy Kuhl, Jr. The Honorable Frank Lautenberg The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy The Honorable John R. Lewis The Honorable Joseph I Lieberman The Honorable Trent Lott The Honorable Nita M. Lowey The Honorable Frank D. Lucas The Honorable Dan Lungren The Honorable Carolyn B. Maloney The Honorable Mel Martinez The Honorable John McCain The Honorable Thaddeus McCotter The Honorable James A. McDermott The Honorable Jerry McNerney The Honorable Gregory W. Meeks The Honorable Mike Michaud The Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski The Honorable Candice S. Miller The Honorable Harry Mitchell The Honorable James P. Moran The Honorable Lisa Murkowski The Honorable Jerrold Nadler The Honorable Grace Napolitano The Honorable Ben Nelson The Honorable Ed Pastor The Honorable Edwin Perlmutter The Honorable Charles W. Pickering, Jr. The Honorable Todd R. Platts The Honorable Tom Price The Honorable Deborah Pryce The Honorable Adam Putnam The Honorable James Ramstad The Honorable Jack Reed The Honorable Dennis Rehberg The Honorable Dave Reichert The Honorable Pat Roberts The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen The Honorable Peter Roskam The Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard The Honorable C.A. Ruppersberger The Honorable Timothy J. Ryan The Honorable John Salazar The Honorable Linda Sanchez The Honorable Bernie Sanders The Honorable John Sarbanes The Honorable Adam Schiff The Honorable Allyson Schwartz The Honorable Christopher H. Shays The Honorable Carol Shea-Porter The Honorable Olympia Snowe The Honorable Mark E. Souder The Honorable Fortney Pete Stark The Honorable Ted Stevens The Honorable Bart Stupak The Honorable Betty Sutton The Honorable Lee Terry The Honorable John Thune The Honorable Todd Tiahrt The Honorable Edolphus Towns The Honorable Tom Udall The Honorable Chris Van Hollen, Jr. The Honorable David Vitter The Honorable George Voinovich The Honorable Zach Wamp The Honorable John W. Warner The Honorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz The Honorable Diane Watson The Honorable Melvin L. Watt The Honorable Robert Wexler The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse The Honorable Roger F. Wicker The Honorable Frank R. Wolf The Honorable Lynn Woolsey The Honorable David Wu