[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome. My name is luise welby president Acc National Capital Region region i look at me today. On behalf of the chapter i think i can speak for everyone here about exactly how excited and how honored we are to have Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and former solicitor general ted olson here with us today. [applause] i also want to thank so much James Williams who is a former member of our board of directors , jim vela who was her vp for programming and eileen. Our executive director for all the work that they have put into this event and they deserve a round of applause. [applause] and so with that i want to turn things over to james and he will do the introductions. Thank you. Thank you for this very kind words. Its a tremendous honor to be here today to introduce our guests and its always difficult when you have guests of this caliber to find the right adjectives in terms to describe them. They are few that come to mind. Titans, dedicated, princip
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome. My name is luise welby president Acc National Capital Region region i look at me today. On behalf of the chapter i think i can speak for everyone here about exactly how excited and how honored we are to have Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and former solicitor general ted olson here with us today. [applause] i also want to thank so much James Williams who is a former member of our board of directors , jim vela who was her vp for programming and eileen. Our executive director for all the work that they have put into this event and they deserve a round of applause. [applause] and so with that i want to turn things over to james and he will do the introductions. Thank you. Thank you for this very kind words. Its a tremendous honor to be here today to introduce our guests and its always difficult when you have guests of this caliber to find the right adjectives in terms to describe them. They are few that come to mind. Titans, dedicated, princip
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome. My name is luise welby president Acc National Capital Region region i look at me today. On behalf of the chapter i think i can speak for everyone here about exactly how excited and how honored we are to have Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and former solicitor general ted olson here with us today. [applause] i also want to thank so much James Williams who is a former member of our board of directors , jim vela who was her vp for programming and eileen. Our executive director for all the work that they have put into this event and they deserve a round of applause. [applause] and so with that i want to turn things over to james and he will do the introductions. Thank you. Thank you for this very kind words. Its a tremendous honor to be here today to introduce our guests and its always difficult when you have guests of this caliber to find the right adjectives in terms to describe them. They are few that come to mind. Titans, dedicated, princip
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome. My name is luise welby president Acc National Capital Region region i look at me today. On behalf of the chapter i think i can speak for everyone here about exactly how excited and how honored we are to have Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and former solicitor general ted olson here with us today. [applause] i also want to thank so much James Williams who is a former member of our board of directors , jim vela who was her vp for programming and eileen. Our executive director for all the work that they have put into this event and they deserve a round of applause. [applause] and so with that i want to turn things over to james and he will do the introductions. Thank you. Thank you for this very kind words. Its a tremendous honor to be here today to introduce our guests and its always difficult when you have guests of this caliber to find the right adjectives in terms to describe them. They are few that come to mind. Titans, dedicated, princip