Millikan served as " Chairman of the Executive Council " ( effectively Caltech's president ) from 1921 to 1945, and his influence was such that the Institute was occasionally referred to as " Millikan's School.

Krulak has served as the Senior Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MBNA Europe ( 2001 – 2005 ) and was based at the Chester campus in the UK.

Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year.

He also served as the bank's first Chairman of the Board.

In retirement Fraser served as Chairman of the UN Panel of Eminent Persons on the Role of Transnational Corporations in South Africa 1985, as Co-Chairman of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa in 1985 – 86, and as Chairman of the UN Secretary-General's Expert Group on African Commodity Issues in 1989 – 90.

He also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004.

Richard Bowman Myers ( born March 1, 1942 ) is a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Prior to becoming Chairman, he served as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from March 2000 to September 2001.

As Vice Chairman, General Myers served as the Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, Vice Chairman of the Defense Acquisition Board, and as a member of the National Security Council Deputies Committee and the Nuclear Weapons Council.

From July 1996 to July 1997 he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon ; and from November 1993 to June 1996 General Myers was Commander of U. S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

He officially took position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( CJCS ) on October 1, 2001. he served as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council during the earliest stages of the War on Terror, including planning of the War in Afghanistan and planning and execution of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Reed served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891 and then from 1895 to 1899, as well as being Chairman of the powerful Rules Committee.

Putin also served as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus from 2008 to 2012.

He was an early member and officer of the Kappa Alpha Society, which included a number of these individuals ( two future Ontario Supreme Court Justices and the future Chairman of the University itself ) and served as a location for the debate of political ideas.

Peter Adams served as the first Chairman of the Anguilla Island Council.

Li Peng ( born 20 October 1928 ) served as the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China, between 1987 and 1998, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003.

At various times he served as President pro tempore of the U. S. Senate, Chairman of the Finance Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee, Committee on Engrossed Bills, Committee on Private Land Claims, Library Committee and the Committee on the revision of laws.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

In addition to his public service work for charitable organizations for the handicapped, Capp also served on the National Reading Council, which was organized to combat illiteracy.

Druyan has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ( NORML ) for over 10 years ,< ref >

As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.

He gave the Democratic response to President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

The AAFC was to compete with the dominant National Football League once it began operations at the end of World War II, which had forced many professional teams to curtail activity, merge or go on hiatus as their players served in the U. S. military.

Powell served as Reagan's National Security Advisor from 1987 – 1989.

The first democratic elections since 1976 were held in December 1984 and were won by the Grenada National Party under Herbert Blaize who won 14 out of 15 seats in elections and served as Prime Minister until his death in December 1989.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the CGT leadership developed close ties to the National Party of Honduras ( Partido Nacional de Honduaras — PNH ), and several leaders served in the Callejas government.

A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

He was appointed to the prestigious portfolios of Minister for Labour and National Service ( 1949 – 1958 ; he had previously served in this portfolio 1940 – 41 ) and Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), by which time he was being touted in the press as a " certain successor to Menzies and a potential Prime Minister ".

The National Volunteers, with over 100, 000 members, were prepared to continue under Redmond, and about 20, 000 of them served in the war in the British Army.

Robinson also chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's ( NAACP ) million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957, and served on the organization's board until 1967.

She also served on the board of the Freedom National Bank until it closed in 1990.

His father, Motilal Nehru ( 1861-1931 ), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.

He is the only scholar to have served on both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.

He served as chairman of the Atlantic Council from June 2007 to January 2009, when he assumed the post of National Security Advisor which he held until November 2010.

During World War II, Mead served as executive secretary of the National Research Council's Committee on Food Habits.

In 1929, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, which served as the focal point of her lobbying efforts to legalize contraception in the United States.

After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he logged over 900 flights.

In 1899 Bell's son-in-law Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was named the first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine and served the organization for fifty-five years ( 1954 ), and members of the Grosvenor family have played important roles in the organization since.

Hackerman served on advisory committees and boards of several technical societies and government agencies, including the National Science Board, the Texas Governor's Task Force on Higher Education and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Welch Foundation.

Marangella previously served on the National Spiritual Assembly of France in 1961, and was declared a Covenant-breaker when he accepted Mason Remey as the next Guardian.