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A Sampling of Select Amicus Brief Signers

Major American Business Enterprises

  • Accenture
  • Adobe Inc.
  • Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
  • Airbnb Inc.
  • Alaska Airlines Inc.
  • American Airlines Inc.
  • American Express Co.
  • American International Group Inc.
  • Amgen Inc.
  • Apple Inc.
  • Ariel Investments LLC
  • Bain & Co.
  • Bayer US LLC
  • Biogen Inc.
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Chamber of Progress
  • Cigna Corp.
  • Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Corning Inc.
  • Cruise LLC
  • Dell Technologies Inc.
  • Eaton Corp.
  • Engine Advocacy
  • Etsy Inc.
  • General Dynamics Corp.
  • General Electric Co.
  • General Motors Co.
  • GlaxoSmithKline LLC
  • Google LLC, HP Inc.
  • IKEA Retail US
  • Illinois Tool Works Inc.
  • Intel Corp.
  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC
  • JetBlue Airways
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.
  • KPMG LLP
  • Leidos Holdings Inc.
  • Levi Strauss & Co.
  • Logitech Inc.
  • Lyft Inc.
  • Match Group LLC
  • Mattel Inc.
  • Merck & Co Inc.
  • Meta Platforms Inc.
  • Northrop Grumman Corp.
  • Paramount Global, PayPal Inc.
  • Pinterest Inc.
  • Procter & Gamble Co.
  • RealNetworks Inc.
  • Red Hat Inc.
  • Ripple Labs Inc.
  • Salesforce Inc.
  • Silicon Valley Leadership Group
  • Starbucks Corp.
  • Steelcase Inc.
  • The Hershey Co.
  • The Kraft Heinz Co.
  • The Prudential Insurance Company of America,
  • Twilio Inc. Uber Technologies, Inc.
  • United Airlines Inc.
  • Verily Life Sciences LLC
  • ViiV Healthcare Co.
  • VMware Inc.
  • Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
  • Zazzle Inc.

Leading Science and Technology Companies

  • Applied Materials Inc.
  • Corteva Agriscience; Cummins Inc.
  • DuPont de Nemours Inc.
  • Gilead Sciences Inc.; LinkedIn Corp.
  • Mastercard Inc.
  • Micron Technology Inc.
  • Microsoft Corp.
  • Shell USA Inc.
  • Verizon Services Corp.

STEM Field Advocates

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  • Stanford University
  • IBM Corp.
  • Aeris Communications Inc.

Former Senior U.S. Military Leaders

  • Admiral Charles S. Abbot, Navy 4-star; Commander U.S. 6th Fleet (1996-98); European Deputy Commander in Chief, (1998-2000); Rhodes Scholar
  • Admiral Dennis C. Blair, Navy 4-star; Director, National Intelligence (2009-10); Pacific Commander-in-Chief, (1999-2002); Rhodes Scholar
  • General Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Astronaut; Marine 2-star; (four space shuttle missions, commanding two); Administrator, NASA (2009-17)
  • General Thomas P. Bostick, Army 3-star; Director, Army Personnel (2010-12); Chief, Army Corps of Engineers (2012-16); Commander, Army Recruiting Command (2005-09)
  • General Vincent K. Brooks, Army 4-star; Commander, 1st Infantry Division (2009-11); Commander, U.S. Army Pacific (2013-16); Commander, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, Korea (2016-18)
  • Admiral Walter E. Carter, Jr., Navy 3-star; Naval Academy Superintendent, (2014-19); President, Naval War College (2013-14).
  • General Robert L. Caslen, Army 3-star; West Point Superintendent, (2013-18); President, University of South Carolina (2019-2021)
  • General Daniel W. Christman, Army 3-star; West Point Superintendent, (1996-2001)
  • General Wesley K. Clark, Army 4-star; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1997-2000); Commander, U.S. Southern Command (1996-97); Commander, 1st Calvary Division (1992-94); Rhodes Scholar
  • General Richard A. Cody, Army 4-star; Army Vice Chief of Staff (2004-08), Commander 101st Airborne Division (2000-02)
  • General Joseph Dunford, Marine Corps 4-star; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2015-19); Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (2014-15); Commander General I Marine Expeditionary Force (2009-10)
  • Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Navy 4-star; Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (2013-16); Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (2012-13)
  • General James T. Hill, Army 4-star; Commander, U.S. Southern Command (2002-04); Commander, I Corps and Fort Lewis (1999-2002); Commander, 25th Infantry Division (1997-99)
  • Admiral Bobby Inman, Navy 4-star; University of Texas at Austin LBJ Centennial Chair in National Policy (2000- 2021); Deputy Director, CIA (1981-82)
  • General Michelle D. Johnson, Air Force 3-star; Air Force Academy Superintendent (2013-17); Rhodes Scholar
  • General John P. Jumper, Air Force 4-star; Air Force Chief of Staff (2001-05); Commander, Air Combat Command (1999-2001); Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (1997-99); President, VMI Board of Visitors (2016- 17); Chairman/CEO, Museum of the American Revolution (2017-18)
  • Senator Joseph Robert (Bob) Kerrey, Congressional Medal of Honor, U.S. Navy SEAL, Special Forces; President, New School University (2001-11); U.S. Senator (1989-2001); Nebraska Governor (1983-87)
  • General William J. Lennox, Army 3-star; West Point Superintendent (2001-06)
  • General Lester L. Lyles, Jr., Air Force 4-star; Commander, Air Force Material Command (2000-03); Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, (1999-2000)
  • Admiral William H. McRaven, Navy 4-star; Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (2011-14); Chancellor, University of Texas System (2015-18)
  • General Richard B. Myers, Air Force 4-star; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-05); Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (1998-2000), President, Kansas State University (2016-2022)
  • Admiral Michael H. Miller, Navy 3-star; Naval Academy Superintendent, (2010-14)
  • Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Navy 4-star; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007-11); Chief, Naval Operations (2005-07)
  • General Tad J. Oelstrom, Air Force 3-star; Director, National Security Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2001-2017); Air Force Academy Superintendent (1997-2000)
  • Honorable Joe R. Reeder, Army Under Secretary (1993- 97); after West Point, served as an 82nd Airborne Division soldier
  • General Lori Robinson, Air Force 4-star; Commander, U.S. Northern Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command (2016-2018); Commander, Pacific Air Forces (2014-2016)
  • Admiral John R. Ryan, Navy 3-star; Naval Academy Superintendent (1998-2002); Chancellor, State University of New York (2005-07)
  • General Curtis M. Scaparotti, Army 4-star; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (2016-19); Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division (2008-10); West Point Commandant (2004-06)
  • General Henry H. Shelton, Army 4-star; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1997-2001); Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (1996-97)
  • General Larry O. Spencer, Air Force 4-star; Vice Chief of Staff (2012-15); Joint Staff Director, Force Structure, Resources & Assessments (2010-12)
  • General Gordon R. Sullivan, Army 4-star; Army Chief of Staff (1991-1995); President, Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) (1998-2016)
  • General Dennis L. Via, Army 4-star; Commander, U.S. Army Materiel Command (2012-16)
  • General Carl E. Vuono, Army 4-star; Army Chief of Staff (1987-91); Commander, Army Training and Doctrine Command (1986-87); Commandant, Army Command and General Staff College (1983-85)
  • General Darrell K. Williams, Army 3-star; Director, Defense Logistics Agency (2017-20); President, Hampton University (2022-Present)
  • General Johnnie E. Wilson, Army 4-star; Commander, U.S. Army Material Command (1996-99)

American Council of Education and 39 Other Higher Education Associations

  • American Council on Education: American Association of Community Colleges
  • American Association of State Colleges and Universities
  • American Association of University Professors
  • American Indian Higher Education Consortium
  • American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • APPA: Leadership in Educational Facilities
  • Association of American Colleges and Universities
  • Association of American Law Schools; Association of American Universities
  • Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
  • Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
  • Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
  • Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
  • Association of Research Libraries
  • College and University Professional Association for Human Resources
  • Council for Advancement and Support of Education
  • Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
  • Council for Higher Education Accreditation
  • Council for Opportunity in Education
  • Council of Graduate Schools
  • Council of Independent Colleges
  • EDUCAUSE
  • Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
  • Law School Admissions Council
  • Middle States Commission on Higher Education
  • NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
  • National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
  • National Association of College and University Business Officers
  • National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education
  • National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
  • National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
  • National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
  • The Common Application
  • Thurgood Marshall College Fund
  • United Negro College Fund
  • the WASC Senior College and University Commission