Mickey Gardner

Michael R. Gardner is a communications policy lawyer in Washington, D.C. Mr. Gardner also serves as the pro bono Chairman of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), a non-profit international training initiative which he founded in 1982 while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. To date, the USTTI has graduated more than 6,700 women and men who are currently managing the communications systems in 165 developing countries.

In addition to his professional activities, Mr. Gardner lectured for eight years as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. where he taught a course on the Modern American Presidency. His book, Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks, published in February 2002 by Southern Illinois University Press, was awarded the Henry Adams Prize for 2003 by the Society for History in the Federal Government. The book also received the coveted "star" from the Library Journal.

Mr. Gardner currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Home Library Foundation of Washington, D.C., the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, and the Dean's Advisory Board of UCLA School of Public Health. He has served on four Presidential Commissions under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush senior, including membership on the President's Committee for Mental Retardation (PCMR), the Council for the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (PADC) and the International Cultural Trade Center Commission (ICTC). Mr. Gardner also served for six years as Chairman of the Dean's Board of Advisors of the College at Georgetown University.

Mr. Gardner is a 1964 graduate of the College at Georgetown University and a 1977 graduate of the Georgetown University Law School.

In addition to his prior adjunct professor duties at Georgetown University, Mr. Gardner has lectured at the Stern Business School at New York University; Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts; Hofstra University in New York; George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; Witts University in Johannesburg, South Africa; University of Missouri in St. Louis, Missouri; Villanova University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

Mr. Gardner lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Theresa Lennon Gardner; they have two adult daughters.