Tom Fitton is the President and Chief Spokesman of Judicial Watch, promoting transparency and integrity in government and in the judiciary in order to create a return to ethics and morality in our Nation’s public life. With over 17 years experience in conservative public policy, Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch President, has helped lead the organization since 1998 and overseen its tremendous growth and success in recent years.
Fitton is also a political analyst, previously working for America’s Voice and National Empowerment Television. He is a former employee of the International Policy Forum, the Leadership Institute and Accuracy in Media.
Mr. Fitton is an expert in campaign finance corruption, and has earned a reputation as a top television political analyst during Senator Fred Thompson’s campaign finance hearings in 1997. Fitton also provides strategic guidance and leadership on Judicial Watch’s other efforts to fight government corruption.
A former talk radio and television host and analyst, he is well known across the country as a national spokesperson for the conservative cause, having appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, C-SPAN and dozens of national talk radio programs. He is regularly quoted in hundreds of newspapers and magazines nationwide.
Fitton has authored articles such as “Judicial Activism Hurts our Courts,” “What Bill Clinton Knew About bin Laden,” “Following Terrorism’s Money Trail,” “Senate Abandons Judicial Nominees,” “Every Town is a Border Town,” “The Clinton’s War on Gun Rights” and “Jesse Jackson Exposed.”
Judicial Watch publishes the monthly newsletter, the Verdict, which has a circulation of over 100,000, and runs the cutting-edge Internet sites JudicialWatch.org and CorruptionChroncles.com.
Under Fitton’s leadership, Judicial Watch was named one of Washington’s top ten most effective government watchdog organizations by The Hill. Fitton has B.A. English from George Washington University.
Paul J. Orfanedes heads Judicial Watch’s Litigation Department and has been with Judicial Watch since its inception. Paul is a distinguished civil litigator who has argued in front of the Supreme Court and in the federal appeal courts on behalf of Judicial Watch and it clients.
As Director of Litigation, he has been a spokesperson for Judicial Watch with his legal commentary appearing in major radio and print media outlets. In addition to managing the day-to-day operations of the Legal Department, Paul is Corporate Secretary and Treasurer of Judicial Watch. He is also member of the Board of Directors.
Paul is a native of Illinois. He graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986. He received his Juris Doctorate from American University in 1990.
Christopher J. Farrell joined Judicial Watch in 1999 as the organization’s Director of Investigations & Research, and has been a member of the Board of Directors since September 2003.
Chris is a native of Long Island, New York. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate from Fordham University with a B.A. in History, whereupon he accepted a Regular Army Commission and served as a Military Intelligence Officer – specializing in Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence. Chris is a graduate of the Military IntelligenceOfficers Basic and Advanced Courses, the U.S. Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Course, the Combined Arms Services Staff School of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Military Operations Training Course, and the Haus Rissen Institut für Politik und Wirtschaft in Hamburg, Germany.
He has pursued additional graduate studies in National Security Studies, specializing in unconventional warfare and terrorism. Following command and staff assignments that included three tours of duty in the Federal Republic of Germany, and one tour at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Chris returned to civilian life as a contractor to the defense and intelligence communities. He also provided management and training consulting services to non-profit organizations, and was active in the establishment of a small, private, co-ed Christian high school where he both taught and served as director.
Chris has appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows, and has authored dozens of articles. He recently contributed a chapter on terrorism to Dr. Irwin Redlener’s book “Americans at Risk” (Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2006). Chris maintains a busy lecture schedule on both government corruption issues and intelligence matters.
He is a Senior Staff Associate of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Mailman School of Public Health. He is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers; the American Society of Access Professionals; the International Counter-Terrorism Officers Association; the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals; and is a constituent member of the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council.
On December 15, 2006, the United Nations Department of Public Information accredited Judicial Watch with association as a non-governmental organization. Chris serves as the Judicial Watch main representative to United Nations Headquarters in New York. Chris and his family reside in Virginia.
