David Keene

David Keene is chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), a columnist for The Hill since 1998, and second vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). A longtime GOP strategist, he's held senior positions in numerous Republican presidential campaigns since 1968, worked in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

A 1970 graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Law School, Keene has been a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and a First Amendment Fellow at Vanderbilt. He has also served on the Board of Visitors of the Public Policy School at Duke University and is currently co-chairman of the Constitution Project's Liberty & Security Initiative.