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| |  Featured Speaker--Doc Thompson
The highlight of the Friday evening dinner (open to non-members) is our Conservative Leadership Recognition, featuring Marconi Award recipient and talk show host Doc Thompson. There will be other special guests and awards will be given for Conservative Leader of the Year and Conservative Thinker of the Year. Register for the Friday Evening Dinner HERE. 
2010 Conservative Leadership WINNERS ANNOUNCED Conservative Leader of the Year (FINALISTS) (The Conservative Leader of the Year Award is not an endorsement of any campaign...it is based on actions this year, and emphasizes that actions speaks louder than words) - Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey (WINNER!)
- Gov. Jan Brewer, Arizona
Conservative Thinker of the Year (FINALISTS) - Glenn Beck--Radio and TV Talk Show Host, Author (WINNER!)
- Angelo Codevilla--Author, Professor
We had 7 or 8 nominations in each category, which were narrowed down the top two and voted on by the ACP Board of Directors.
Conference Speakers
 Major General Jerry Curry
Jerry R. Curry is a statesman, a courageous soldier, a diplomat, and a government leader. Curry is a man of great intelligence, integrity, honesty, and proven character. He is a person who has taken a stand for his country and devoted his life in its service. He is a person who has lived out in practice what others just seem to talk about. Jerry was born into humble beginnings--the son of a steel worker--and like most Americans has worked hard to better himself. He recognizes that only through the unique opportunities offered by this nation was he able to succeed. He enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Private during the Korean War and rose to the rank of a two star Major General--an uncommon achievement and a near impossibility for a soldier of mixed European, African and Native American ancestry. To find out about Jerry, go to his "GenerallySpeaking" blog at generallyspeaking.curryforamerica.com. Also find some of his published work on Human Events.
 Leslie Carbone
Leslie Carbone served as the director of Family Tax Policy at the Family Research Council, chief of staff to the late assemblyman Gil Ferguson of California, and a speechwriter for former U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao. Her writing has been published in the Weekly Standard, the American Enterprise, the San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other magazines and journals. She has lectured at more than 100 college campuses and has been interviewed on more than 250 radio shows. She lives in Fairfax, VA. You can buy her book, Slaying Leviathan, the Moral Case for Tax Reform on Amazon
 Adam Schaeffer
Adam B. Schaeffer is a policy analyst with Cato's Center for Educational Freedom. Schaeffer is a former NRI Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He has commented on a range of political issues in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, and RealClearPolitics. Schaeffer received his Ph.D. in American politics, with a focus in political behavior, media effects, and coalitional politics, from the University of Virginia and his MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. His dissertation assessed the potential for different combinations of private school choice policies and messages to expand and mobilize elite and mass support. Schaeffer has an extensive background in online survey development, messaging experiments, and the strategic analysis of message, policy, and audience interactions.
 Donna Holt--Speaking on "Agenda 21 and Sustainable Dev."
Donna Holt is the Executive Director of Virginia Campaign for Liberty and has served as a State Coordinator for Campaign for Liberty National since August of 2008. She is a graduate of Kent State University School of Business in Ohio and a former Entrepreneur and Interior Designer and has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations. In 2007, she joined Ron Paul’s presidential campaign as the 7th District co-whip for Virginia and in 2008 worked on a statewide campaign for a candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. In 2008, Mrs. Holt launched a successful legislative campaign for the passage of legislation that would prohibit the implementation of certain provisions of Real ID in Virginia. HB1587 & SB417 were signed into law in July of 2009. In 2009, she launched a legislative campaign and built a coalition of more than 30,000 citizen activists in Virginia called the VA 10th Amendment Revolution and went on to successfully lobby for the passage of the Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act that was signed into law in March of 2010. | | | | |
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