These dedicated educators play a critical role in the preparation of the Course Description and exam for AP Government and Politics: United States. They represent a diversity of knowledge and points of view in their fields and, as a group, are the authority when it comes to making subject-matter decisions in the exam-construction process. The AP Development Committees represent a unique collaboration between high school and college educators.
Committee Chair
Kathleen A. Bratton, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Committee Members
Joseph P. Cammarano, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island
Jenny A. Esler, Round Rock High School, Round Rock, Texas
Byron D’Andra Orey, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
Julie U. Strong, Albermarle High School, Charlottesville, Virginia

College Board Advisor
Andrée E. Reeves, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama

Chief Reader
Gary W. Copeland, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

ETS Assessment Specialists
Vinod Menon
Ed Wagner