Kathy Roth-Douquet
Kathryn Roth-Douquet is a writer, lawyer, political activist
and Marine Corps wife. She writes on issues of the military
in society. Her forthcoming book, AWOL: The Unexcused
Absence of America's Upper Classes from the Military and How
it Hurts Our Country, co-authored by Frank Schaeffer, is
published by Collins Books/Harper Collins and will be
available in bookstores in May 2006. It discusses how the
country, its decision-making and democracy are hurt by the
growing disconnect between those who dominate our political,
cultural and professional institutions and those in the
military. Roth-Douquet is a veteran of every presidential campaign of
the past twenty years and has served in the Clinton White
House and the Department of Defense. As associate director
of presidential advance for the Clinton administration, she
traveled with or ahead of the president around the world,
negotiating on behalf of the White House and producing
presidential events, from G-8 summits to rallies of several
hundred thousand to celebrate the end of the Cold War to
town hall meetings in America. At the Pentagon, she served
in the Office of the Secretary of Defense primarily on
defense-reform issues. Her final title was acting Principal
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Industrial
Affairs and Installations). For her work there she was
awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding
Public Service. Roth-Douquet is a member of the Democratic Leadership
Council, a Fellow with the Truman Project, and a strategist
and fundraiser within the Democratic Party. Outside of
politics and government, she has been involved with private
foundations, as vice president of the Revlon Foundation and
as director of special projects for the Nathan Cummings
Foundation. She was a weekly commentator on a
current-affairs television show in Japan and has taught
American Government for the University of Maryland's
University College in Japan. She is as an attorney and
currently serves on the panel for the California Court of
Appeals. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Roth-Douquet holds a
masters in public and international affairs from the Woodrow
Wilson School of Princeton University, where she was a
Woodrow Wilson Fellow and editor in chief of the journal of
public and international affairs. She holds a law degree,
magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University
of San Diego.
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Series
Books:AWOL, May 2006
Hardcover
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