Past WWIG Banquet Speakers

2010 – Karen Hughes, Ambassador, former Counselor to President George W Bush and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
2009 – Donna Brazile, Democratic political strategist, commentator, adjunct professor, author, syndicated columnist, and the Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the Democratic National Committee
2008 – Jenna Bush, International and child rights advocate & best-selling author
2007 – Elizabeth Edwards, Attorney and best-selling author
2006 – Christine Todd Whitman, New Jersey’s first female Governor
2005 – Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, former U.S. Senator, and former First Lady
2004 – Mary Matalin, former counselor to President Bush & Vice President Cheney
2003 – The Capitol Steps, musical political satire
2002 – Linda Wertheimer, award-winning broadcaster for National Public Radio
2001 – Catherine Crier, award-winning journalist for Court TV
2000 – Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist and author
1999 – Pat Schroeder, former Colorado congresswoman
1998 – Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas
1997 – Lynne Cheney, former Chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and author
1996 – Dee Dee Myers, former press secretary for President Clinton
1995 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
1994 – Ann Compton, award-winning journalist for ABC
1993 – Janet Steiger, former Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission
1992 – Molly Ivins, award-winning syndicated columnist and best-selling author
1991 – Peggy Noonan, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, author, & former speech writer to President Nixon
1990 – Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist
1989 – Marie Davis Jackson
1988 – Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and former Chancellor of UW-Madison