CAP Sunshine

Advisory Board

• Loren Cochran
• Freedom of Information Service Center Director
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Rebecca Daugherty
• Formerly of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Sandra Davidson
• Associate Professor, University of Missouri
• Joe Davis
• Editor, Society of Environmental Journalists
• Kevin Goldberg
• Special Counsel, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C.
• Harry Hammitt
• Editor and Publisher, Access Reports
• Frosty Landon
• Executive Director, Virginia Coalition for Open Government
• Linda Lightfoot
• Retired Executive Editor, The Baton Rouge Advocate
• Ian Marquand
• Special projects coordinator / Broadcast journalist, KPAX TV
• Former co-chair of the FOI Committee for SPJ
• Dr. Shannon Martin
• Professor, University of Indiana
• Patrice McDermott
• Assistant Director of Government Relations
• American Library Association
• Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Graduate Department of Public Administration
• Rutgers University-Newark
• Susan Dente Ross
• Assistant Dean, Washington State University
• Charles D. Tobin
• Partner, Holland and Knight, LLP
• Eric Turner
• Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission

Associate Members

• Sue Hale
• Executive Editor, The Daily Oklahoman

Former Members

• Anne Mullin O'Connor
• Former Indiana Public Access Counselor
• Bob Freeman
• New York State Committee on Open Government
• Tony Mauro
• Supreme Court Correspondent
• American Lawyer Media
• Rick Peltz
• Associate Professor
• William H. Bowen School of Law
• University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• John Watkins
• Professor
• University of Arkansas School of Law
• Suzy Woodford
• Executive Director, Common Cause of Texas
• Carole Wagner Vallianos
• Attorney
• Law Office of Carole Wagner Vallianos

Sue Hale

Sue Hale was named executive editor of The Oklahoman in January 2000, coming from her position as general manager of Connect Oklahoma, NewsOK.com, the internet version of The Oklahoman.

Prior to being named head of Connect Oklahoma in 1996, Hale was assistant managing editor at The Oklahoman since 1989.

Hale is a past president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, a First Amendment rights group, and still serves on its board. She also has served on boards of other state journalism organizations and local non-profit civic organizations. She had channeled an interest in aging issues into a column for The Oklahoman, which she wrote for nine years.

When she was assistant managing editor of The Oklahoman, Hale helped start FOI Oklahoma, a state freedom of information group, in 1990. She also chaired the First Amendment national committee for the Association of Women in Communications. In 1994, Hale received the National Headliner Award from the association for her work on First Amendment issues.

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