Decosimo's Managing Principal elected to EPPC Board

November 19, 2004
Chattanooga, Tennessee

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Joseph D. (Nick) Decosimo, Managing Principal of Joseph Decosimo and Company, PLLC, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) along with William P. Barr, the former Attorney General of the United States and current Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Verizon

Mr. Decosimo joins newly-elected Board Chairman William P. Burleigh, chairman of the E.W. Scripps Company, and  returning directors, Amb. Kirkpatrick  Robert P. George, Mary Ann Glendon, Paul J. Klaassen, and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus.  

The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues. Its program includes research, writing, publication, and conferences.

EPPC affirms the political relevance of the great Western ethical imperatives--respect for the dignity of every person, individual freedom and responsibility, justice, the rule of law, and limited government. It maintains that moral reasoning is an essential complement to empirical calculation in the shaping of public policy.