Leadership Team
Joy graduated from Liberty University with honors in 2008 with a B.A. in Marketing. An accomplished singer, she has performed as a soloist numerous times on television. She has recorded 4 gospel cd’s, and has toured extensively with her family presenting her music ministry.
Leanne graduated from Reinhardt College in 2008 with a B.A. in Fine Arts. Her concentration was in ceramics and was the Student Government Association – Vice President of Student Activities & Chair of the Student Activities Council 2007 – 2008. She enjoys playing in the hand bell choir of her home town church in Tucker, Georgia.
Ron Futrell has worked for 30 years as a radio and TV journalist. He has worked as a sports and news anchor for network affiliates in Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Yakima, WA. Ron also is a fill-in host on conservative radio talk shows in Las Vegas.
Ron is currently a contributor to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism web site that examines media bias.
Ron currently runs a Las Vegas marketing company, Future Vegas Media.
Ron has served on numerous charity boards in Las Vegas. He is currently serving with Crime Stoppers of Nevada, and is on the Nevada Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Ron and his wife Kathy have 4 children and are active in many church and community activities. You can follow Ron on Twitter @RonFutrell
Regina Brown is a skilled communicator who believes transformation is made possible through knowledge of the truth. That knowledge provides the power to set people free to fulfill their God-given purpose.
She is an advocate for family, faith and patriot values in a world that often minimizes their necessity to the American way of life.
Regina serves as a Truth Project Facilitator, Citizen Action Seminar Host, and small business partner. She is a recipient of the Florida Family Defender of Marriage award for her work on Florida’s Amendment 2.
She and her husband, Rex, are active in their church and community and reside in Largo, Fl. Regina is the proud mother of two adult children.
You can follow Regina on FaceBook at Regina Talks Truth, Politics and Today’s Turkey.
Ken Blackwell is a bestselling author and Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council. He serves on the board of directors of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Club for Growth, the National Rifle Association and the National Taxpayers Union. Mr. Blackwell is a contributing editor for the conservative news and opinion site Townhall.com. His columns frequently appear in the WSJ, Politico, Washington Times, New York Post, National Review Online, American Spectator and World Magazine.
In 2004, the American Conservative Union and the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs honored Mr. Blackwell with the John M. Ashbrook Award for his steadfast conservative leadership.
Mr. Blackwell’s public service includes terms as mayor of Cincinnati, an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. In 1994, he became the first African-American elected to a statewide executive office in Ohio when he was elected treasurer of state. He subsequently was elected to two terms as secretary of state and was the GOP nominee for governor in 2006.
Janice Johnson is currently the founder and President of New Horizons Solutions, Inc.
She graduated from the University of Alabama where she majored in Chemistry and received a B.S. degree in Medical Technology. She completed postgraduate study in Comparative Medicine. Janice worked nine years in the field of medical technology and served as the supervisor of the State of Illinois’ Tissue Typing lab. She retired from that career in 1986 to launch her new career as mother of four children.
It was during this time she became very politically active and was the Executive Director of Tennessee Christian Coalition, a grassroots mobilization organization. Over the past twenty five years, Janice has successfully lobbied hundreds of bills into law at both the state and federal level.
She has coordinated numerous fundraisers and events at the state Capitol, attended by hundreds of leaders from across Tennessee.
Greg Rothman is President/CEO and Broker of Record of RSR REALTORS, LLC, the largest and most versatile real estate company in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He serves on the Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps, President George W. Bush appointed him to the National Veterans Business Development Corporation in 2006. He has served on numerous campaigns and advised elected officials on real estate issues.
Mr. Rothman is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a degree in Political Science. He has a Masters of Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated top in his class. He holds several prestigious real estate designations including: MAI, CCIM and MRICS. Greg has two daughters young Eleanor and Mia. His son Nicholas plays Division 1 soccer at Robert Morris University.
Chuck Warren is a partner in Silver Bullet, LLC, a public affairs, crisis communication and initiative qualification company. Chuck has worked for major law firms, municipalities, developers, organizations and companies as diverse as Amazon.com, Overstock.com, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Delta Airlines, IOSTAR, Comcast,
A prolific fundraiser , Mr. Warren has served as the Utah Finance Chair and on the National Finance Committee for Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani; Utah Finance Committee, John McCain for President; and on past finance committees for Lamar Alexander and George W. Bush.
Mr. Warren has appeared on numerous radio programs and his columns have been published in www.biggovernment.com, Daily Caller, Politico, The Tampa Tribune, Cal News, Deseret News, and Washington Times.
Carol Schulstad served as Executive Director of MN Christian Coalition’s founding years, from 1994- 1997. She organized at the grassroots throughout the state, trained activists and equipped people of faith to effective political action. Her successes included founding dozens of chapters while growing volunteers and members to over 5,000 Minnesotans. They distributed millions of voter guides. Among the issues of limited government, life, marriage, and school choice, she was present with the Coalition during the unveiling of the Contract of America. Carol’s raised her family in the Twin Cities, MN where they reside today. She remains active in Eden Prairie, SD 42 as well as choir and FFC Church Liaison at Grace Church. She is employed with Amerprise Financial working in Compliance/Supervision.
Brett Doster is the founder and president of Front Line Strategies.
Over the last 15 years, Brett has been highly involved in Florida politics, first serving as special assistant to former Governor Jeb Bush in his first gubernatorial campaign in 1993. Brett has since served in leadership roles on five other statewide campaigns, including executive director of the Bush-Cheney 2004 Re-election campaign in Florida. He has pursued a variety of interests that include commercial real estate and statewide economic development.
Brett graduated from The Citadel. He resides in Tallahassee with his wife Iris and their daughters.
Senator Martin is a senior member of the standing committees on Education and Health, and serves on the Constitutional Amendments, Reapportionment, Referenda and the Certificates, Oath, and Confirmation Review subcommittees; and serves on the Health Care and Health Professions subcommittees; Local Government and General Laws Committees and Privileges and Elections. He is also active in a number of national organizations and serves on commissions and committees that promote and study health care issues.
Steve was born in Chesterfield County and has seven siblings. He is the proud father of two sons, Chad and Nathan and also has two granddaughters, Olivia and Mckinley. Steve is a member of South Richmond Rotary and Swift Creek Baptist Church where he is involved in several areas of ministry.
Pauley first joined Sagac in 2006 representing the firm’s finance efforts in the gubernatorial contest. In 2007, he joined Governor Mary Fallin’s congressional district staff as field representative. In 2009, he returned to Sagac bringing practical federal and state political, legislative and legal experience to the firm. Pauley provides fundraising, public affairs and public policy support to gubernatorial, congressional and legislative leaders, as well as national corporate, association and issue advocacy organizations.
Pauley holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and a Juris Doctorate from Oklahoma City University. He is licensed to practice law in Oklahoma.
Sagac Public Affairs is a national company providing communications, research and fundraising solutions to hundreds of political, non-profit and corporate organizations. Sagac is recognized as a leader in the political community for strategy and implementation of issue advocacy and political action committee campaigns.
A former Police Detective, Josephine started her political activism in the early 90’s in Los Angeles, California when she joined in leadership with Christian Coalition. While living there, she was keynote speaker for Proposition 187 (illegal immigration) and the school voucher initiative. Her activism included speaking out for family issues like right to life, free adoptions and pro-marriage.
In 2006, Josephine successfully lobbied to pass a law regarding transparency in financial transactions regarding adoptions. Josephine is also a participant with the WA State conservative leadership group.
Josephine and her husband Michael are blessed with five children and two grandchildren. Her family attends LifePoint Church in Vancouver.
In the Legislature, Bob served as a member of the House Water and Agriculture Committee, where he helped promote sound water management policies for our state. He has a wide range of policy experience, having served as Chairman of the House Health Committee; Co-Chair of the Joint Select Committee to Investigate Operations and Conditions at the Arizona Veterans Home; Vice Chair of the Health and Rules committees; and as a member of the Commerce & Military Affairs, Ways & Means, Financial Institutions & Insurance, Ethics and Education committees. Bob also helped craft several multi-billion-dollar budgets for the state.
Before seeking public office, Bob worked as a reporter and editor for leading national and local magazines and newspapers in Washington, D.C., and Tucson.
Bob holds degrees from Harvard University, where he studied political philosophy with columnist George F. Will, as well as American religious history, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied philosophy and social thought, and from which he graduated with High Honors.
In his free time, Bob enjoys music, hiking, travel and exploring our great state of Arizona.
A twelfth generation South Carolinian, Miles Landon Terry was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1982. He attended elementary and middle schools in the upstate of the Palmetto State and graduated from Wade Hampton High School in 2000. The following autumn, he entered the University of South Carolina where he finished his B.A. in Political Science in three years. He later completed graduate studies in Political Science with an emphasis in early American political thought in the areas of religion, the American family, and American culture and received his M.A. in Political Science in 2004 from Appalachian State University.
Mr. Terry spent the next couple of years working in real estate, business, and politics as well as serving as an adjunct instructor in American Government at Greenville Technical College. In the fall of 2006, Miles entered Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia and graduated in May 2009 earning his Juris Doctor degree.
Mile and Michelle C. Kogler (’09 Regent Law) of Dallas, Texas were married in August of 2009. They spent a year residing in Arlington, Virginia as Miles served as Associate Counsel to the ACLJ’s Office of Government Affairs. Miles also served as a representative of the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ) before the United Nations located in New York, NY.
Prior to joining Financial Designs, Ltd., Mr. Ramstead was a wealth manger with Bernstein Global Wealth Management. Before that he was an executive with a Fortune 500 company. Prior to that he helped to successfully start and sell two different businesses. Mr. Ramstead’s early career was as a U.S. Navy F-14 pilot and flew combat sorties in Desert Storm and was an instructor at the Navy Strike Fighter Weapons School at the Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego, CA.
Mr. Ramstead is a Minnesota native and graduated high school from St. Thomas Academy. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a full Navy ROTC scholarship.
John and his wife Donna live in Denver with their three boys. He enjoys time with his family, coaching, travel, reading and any outdoor activity. He is active in the community and serves on the board of the Colorado Make A Wish Foundation, Colorado Faith and Freedom Coalition and the Colorado Rough Riders.
While in college, Mary used part of her time to serve on the Student Senate as the Chair of Internal Affairs. In compliance with her degree’s requisites, Mary completed an extensive thesis focusing on the Progressive Era’s impact on the United States Constitution. Prior to joining the Minnesota Faith & Freedom Coalition’s team, Mary stayed involved in conservative politics through volunteer work, including: CPAC 2010, the 2010 Michele Bachmann Congressional Campaign, the 2010 Tom Emmer Gubernatorial Campaign, the 2011 RightOnline Conference in Minneapolis, the 2011 Tax Cut Rally in St. Paul, and the 2011 GOP Midwest Leadership Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Mary has a degree in Broad Field Social Studies and currently serves as a receptionist, administrative assistant, and accounting assistant at a packaging company near her hometown. In addition to her duties with MNFFC, she spends a great deal of time maintaining freelance projects, including her blog,www.afuturefree.com. She currently lives in the Twin Cities with her husband Gilberto, and their dog Zuzu.
Speaker Request FormTo request a member of the FFC Team to speak at an event, please fill out and return by fax/ email to (678)-869-0235 or joy@ffcoalition.com.
FFC Speakers Include: Founder & Chairman Ralph Reed, Executive Director Gary Marx, and National Field Director Billy Kirkland.
