Hugh Hewitt Biography
- Title:
- Executive Editor of Townhall.com
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of June 4, 2007
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Blogger, HughHewitt.com
- Weekly columnist, The Daily Standard (the online edition of the Weekly Standard)
- Executive Editor, Townhall.com, 2006-present
- Professor of Law, Chapman University Law School, 2006-present
- Began hosting his own radio show, Fall, 2001
- Host, Life & Times, KCET, Los Angeles PBS station, 1992-2001
- Hewitt sparked controversy by proposing screening of researchers wishing to use the Richard Nixon Library resources, 1990
- Conceived of and hosted PBS series Searching for God in America, 1996
- Radio Host, KFI, Los Angeles, 1990-1995
- Special Assistant to Attorneys General William French Smith and Edwin Meese, Reagan White House
- Assistant Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office, Reagan White House
- General Counsel for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Reagan White House
- Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Reagan White House
- Clerk, Judges Roger Robb and George MacKinnon, U.S. Court of Appeals and District of Columbia Circuit, 1983-1984
- Executive Director, Richard Nixon Library, from groundbreaking to opening (at request of former President Richard Nixon)
- Education:
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- AB, Government, cum laude, Harvard College, 1978
- JD, School of Law, Order of the Coif, University of Michigan, 1983
- Other:
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- Awarded three Emmys during his decade as an anchor of a nightly news and public affairs show for the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, KCET
- Political/social commentator, The Dennis Miller Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Larry King Live, The O’Reilly Factor and The Today Show
- Guest, The Colbert Report, Apr. 24 2006