Our Team

Derek Lyons
PRESIDENT
Derek Lyons
Derek Lyons is the President and CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE). Mr. Lyons has worked for nearly 15 years at the highest levels of law and public policy, providing strategic advice to policymakers in the White House and the Congress. He served for nearly four years as White House Staff Secretary and Counselor to President Donald J. Trump, in the Senate as the Chief Counsel to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and in the House of Representatives as a Legislative Assistant to Representative Jeb Hensarling. Outside of government, at Boyden Gray & Associates and Gibson Dunn, Mr. Lyons has represented an array of corporate and non-profit clients in high-stakes constitutional, regulatory, and commercial litigation matters in state and federal court, including the Supreme Court. Most recently, Mr. Lyons was the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at AppHarvest, Inc., a publicly traded controlled environment agriculture company headquartered in Morehead, Kentucky, where he was responsible for all legal and corporate governance matters. He began his legal career as a law clerk to then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and he holds degrees in economics and political science from Duke University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to practice law in D.C. and Texas.
The Board of Directors

Bobby Burchfield
Chairman of the Board
Bobby R. Burchfield is a co-founder, with Karl Rove, of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, Inc., and currently serves as RITE’s Chairman of the Board.
Bobby Burchfield
Bobby R. Burchfield is a co-founder, with Karl Rove, of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, Inc., and currently serves as RITE’s Chairman and interim President/Chief Executive Officer. Before retiring from the practice of law in March 2021, after serving as a partner in three international law firms, Bobby was a trial and appellate lawyer who tried cases before judges and juries and argued appeals throughout the United States. His cases addressed a broad range of subjects including antitrust, commercial disputes, constitutional law, election law, and class action issues. Bobby argued two important First Amendment cases in the Supreme Court of the United States (McConnell v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC), as well as two dozen appeals in the lower courts. Over a 40-year career, Bobby never lost a jury trial. Among other recognitions, he was listed for many years in Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers Partners rated Bobby highly for Commercial Litigation and for Election Law. Bobby is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington Law School, teaching a seminar entitled “Fundamentals of Free Speech as Applied to Contemporary Issues.” He also serves on the Board of Trustees at Wake Forest University, is Vice President for Finance for the Executive Board of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts (NCAC), is Chair of two Super PACs, and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the George Washington Law School. A graduate of Wake Forest University (BA 1976 with distinction in Economics and Political Theory) and the George Washington Law School (1979 with high honors), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, Bobby clerked for the Hon. Ruggero J. Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He served as General Counsel of President George H.W. Bush’s Re-Election Campaign in 1992, by appointment of President George W. Bush on the Antitrust Advisory Commission (2005-07), and at the request of President Donald J. Trump as Ethics Advisor to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust (2017-2021).

William P. Barr
Board Member
A native New Yorker, William P. Barr earned his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University. He obtained his J.D. with highest honors at night from George Washington University, while working full time at the Central Intelligence Agency.
William P. Barr
A native New Yorker, William P. Barr earned his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University. He
obtained his J.D. with highest honors at night from George Washington University, while working full time at the Central Intelligence Agency. After clerking for U.S. Circuit Judge Malcolm Wilkey in DC, he spent a decade practicing law at the Washington firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, interrupted by a stint serving in the Reagan White House. President George H. W. Bush successively appointed Barr Assistant Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and, finally, the 77th Attorney General. Barr retired in 2008 after fifteen years as general counsel of GTE Corporation and its successor company, Verizon, after which he served on a number of corporate boards and consulted for corporate clients. Barr agreed to serve as the 85th Attorney General for the last two years of President Trump’s term. Barr’s memoir, One Damn Thing After Another, published in March 2022, was a number one New York Times bestseller.

Jerry Hunter
Board Member
Jerry M. Hunter is Senior Counsel with the law firm of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.
Jerry Hunter
Jerry M. Hunter is Senior Counsel with the law firm of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.
Prior to joining Bryan Cave LLP, Mr. Hunter served, by nomination of President George H.W. Bush and confirmation by the Senate, as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) from 1989 through November 1993.
Mr. Hunter previously served as Director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations from 1986 through 1989.
In 1995, Mr. Hunter was appointed by the Leadership of the United States Congress to serve a four-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance. Mr. Hunter was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association at its Annual Meeting in 1997, where he served as a Member of the Board and its Executive Committee until May 2009.
Mr. Hunter previously served as a Member of the National Board of Directors of Boys Hope Girls Hope. He is a member of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Inc., the American Bar, the National Bar, the Missouri Bar, the Mound City Bar, and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.
Mr. Hunter currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis. Governor Michael L. Parson appointed Mr. Hunter to serve as a Commissioner on the House Independent Bipartisan Citizens Commission. The twenty-member bipartisan commission elected Mr. Hunter to serve as Chairman of the Commission.
Mr. Hunter is a 1974 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and government, and a 1977 graduate of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Hunter has been a regular selection to Best Lawyers in the United States, Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Lawdragon’s the One Hundred Most Powerful Employment Lawyers in America.

Steven Law
Board Member
Steven Law brings three decades of diverse experience in politics, government, management and ethics to his role as chief executive officer of Senate Leadership Fund
Steven Law
Steven Law brings three decades of diverse experience in politics, government, management and ethics to his role as chief executive officer of Senate Leadership Fund, One Nation, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS – four organizations that have transformed independent advocacy, inspired imitators on the left and right, and helped elect new leadership in Congress that is dedicated to the cause of limited government, free markets and national security.
Law previously served as chief legal officer and general counsel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he led a successful grassroots advocacy campaign to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act; counseled the Chamber’s audit and employee benefits committees; designed compliance programs on ethics, lobbying, and international activity; and oversaw the Chamber’s litigation portfolio.
Law was the deputy secretary of labor under President George W. Bush. He promoted new financial transparency rules and ethics reforms for labor unions. Law also helped craft Administration policy on Trade Adjustment Assistance, immigration reform, post-9/11 economic response and overtime regulatory reform.

Ashley Macleay
Board Member
Ashley C. MacLeay joined the RITE board in 2022 and also serves on the RNC’s Election Integrity Committee.
Ashley Macleay
Ashley C. MacLeay joined the RITE board in 2022 and also serves on the RNC’s Election Integrity Committee. She was elected in 2020 to serve as DC’s National Committeewoman to the RNC. From 2017-2021 she served as the at-large representative for the DC State Board of Education and was the highest ranking and only registered Republican elected to citywide office in Washington, DC.
In addition, Ashley is the director of external relations for Independent Women’s Forum and Independent Women’s Voice, the preeminent organizations of women who promote free markets, limited government, and personal liberty. She was a 2016 Washington, DC fellow for National Review Institute and regularly speaks on issues affecting women in politics.
Prior to joining IW, Ashley worked in political consulting and was involved with political campaigns at the national and state level including Mitt Romney for President, Ken Cuccinelli for Governor (VA), and Martha McSally for Congress (AZ). A native Marylander, Ashley cut her teeth in politics in the office of Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett (MD-06) and worked for the Maryland General Assembly during the administration of Governor Bob Ehrlich. She also worked with state party counsels and leaders across the country at the Republican National Lawyers Association. Ashley received her B.A in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park and holds a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law. She also spent time studying at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.
Ashley is actively involved in the DC community. She is as member of the DC Republican Committee and is the president of the DC chapter of the League of Republican Women. She served on the board of directors for the Junior League of Washington, is a member of the advisory council for the Washington Literacy Center and promotes literacy development by working with several area nonprofits.
Ashley lives in the neighborhood of Capitol Hill with her husband and two children.

Andrew C. McCarthy
Board Member
He is a former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York
Andrew C. McCarthy
Bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy is a contributing editor at National Review, a senior fellow at National Review Institute, and a Fox News contributor. He is a former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and led the terrorism prosecution against the “Blind Sheikh” (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists for conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks. After working on other national security cases, including investigations in Africa after the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, he helped supervise the Justice Department’s command center near ground-zero in lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks. During his 20-year career as a prosecutor, he received numerous honors, including the Justice Department’s highest awards. He taught trial advocacy at New York Law School, and constitutional issues in criminal law at Fordham Law School. Andy speaks and writes widely on law and national security, radical Islam, politics, and culture. He has testified before Congress as an expert on issues of constitutional law, counterterrorism, and law-enforcement. In addition to his regular columns at National Review, Andy writes frequently for other major national publications. His most recent New York Times bestselling book is Ball of Collusion(Encounter Books, 2019), about the Russiagate controversy (an updated version was published in 2020). His other books include Willful Blindness (2008), The Grand Jihad (2010), Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (2012), and Faithless Execution (2014). He has also written several pamphlets in the Broadside series published by Encounter Books, most recently Islam and Free Speech (2015).
Our Team

Karl Rove
Founder and Advisor
Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007.
Karl Rove
Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public Liaison, and Intergovernmental Affairs and was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, coordinating the White House policy-making process.
Before Karl became known as “The Architect” of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, he was president of Karl Rove + Company, an Austin-based public affairs firm that worked for Republican candidates, non-partisan causes, and non-profit groups. His clients included over 75 Republican U.S. Senate, Congressional, and gubernatorial candidates in 24 states, as well as the Moderate Party of Sweden.
Karl writes a weekly op-ed for the Wall Street Journal and is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.” He has written for various publications, including The Daily Beast, Financial Times, Forbes, FoxNews.com, HumanEvents.com, Newsweek, The Times, Washington Post, and The Weekly Standard.
A Colorado native, he attended the University of Utah, the University of Maryland-College Park, George Mason University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Karl has taught graduate students at UT Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and undergraduates in a joint appointment from the Journalism and Government departments at the university. He was also a faculty member at the Salzburg Seminar.
He was previously a member of the Board of International Broadcasting, which oversaw the operations of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, and served on the White House Fellows regional selection panel. He was also a member of the Boards of Regents at Texas Women’s University and East Texas State University.
Karl now serves on the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee and on the Board of Trustees for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation and the Texas State History Museum Foundation. He is a member of the McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors and the Texas Philosophical Society. He was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame in 2009 and the American Association of Political Consultants Hall of Fame in 2012.

Justin Riemer
Advisor
Justin has been advising clients and high-ranking public officials on election administration and voting rights matters for nearly 15 years.
Justin Riemer
Justin has been advising clients and high-ranking public officials on election administration and voting rights matters for nearly 15 years. Unusual for an election law practitioner, Justin actually administered elections and understands them from the perspective of a practitioner and election official. Justin served as the Deputy Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections in the McDonnell Administration where he coordinated implementation of the state’s 2011 redistricting process and its administration of the 2012 presidential and the 2013 gubernatorial elections, which included a statewide recount for Attorney General. Justindrafted and helped implement numerous important election integrity reforms in Virginia during his tenure, including a statewide photo ID requirement and online voter registration.
Justin most recently served as Chief Counsel of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2018 to 2022 during a critical period for the party. He also served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration which has congressional oversight over election issues. Justin got his start working as an attorney for Senator John McCain’s 2008 Presidential Election.
Justin has written and presented extensively on election law matters, including testifying before the U.S. Senate Rules Committee and the Virginia General Assembly. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Review, New York Times, and Breitbart. In 2021, Justin Riemer was the recipient of the Republican National Lawyers Association’s Robert J. Horn Chairman’s Award for nationally distinguished service to the citizens of the United States of America for protecting the honesty and accuracy of elections.
Justin received his B.A. in History and Religion from Gettysburg College and his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He is licensed to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia (inactive status).

Lindsey Hagan
Director of Operations
Lindsey Hagan has more than 15 years of experience in non-profit, public entities, and political committees and campaigns.
Lindsey Hagan
Lindsey Hagan has more than 15 years of experience in non-profit, public entities, and political committees and campaigns. Prior to joining RITE, she ran her own research and management consulting firm contracting with lobbying groups, private sector companies and organizations. She focused on strategic development and planning, gauging political risk, proposal writing and program management. Lindsey served on the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee and worked on the 2016 Republican Presidential Campaign. Prior to this, she contracted with the Smithsonian Institution where she conducted market research and created programming for the Warner Brothers Film Project at The National Museum of American History. Lindsey has also had extensive experience working with both domestic and international non-profits and policy institutes focusing on institutional strategy and business development.
Lindsey earned a BA in History from the University of Colorado in Boulder and holds two MAs and an MBA in Management from The Johns Hopkins University. Originally from New Orleans, and after living all over the world, Lindsey now lives with her husband and 3 sons in Northern Virginia.

Kateland Jackson
Senior Counsel
Kateland Jackson
Katie is an experienced lawyer and political strategist.
Before joining RITE, Katie worked at a major law firm in D.C. where she focused her practice on appellate litigation, federal and constitutional law, biometric data privacy, and the protection of individual civil liberties. Katie has experience representing clients in complex litigation in both federal and state courts.
Previously, Katie served as Chief Counsel to Senator Jeff Flake on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and Special Counsel to Senator Jim Inhofe. In those roles, she managed judicial and executive nominations, drafted and negotiated legislation, and filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of federal and state stakeholders. Katie also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael B. Brennan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Katie is a member of the Executive Committee of The Federalist Society’s Litigation Practice Group. She received a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and a B.A. in Government Relations and Political Science from Liberty University.
Katie is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kisa Motiwala
Junior Counsel
Kisa Motiwala
Kisa Motiwala serves as Junior Counsel to Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE).
Prior to joining RITE, Ms. Motiwala worked at a boutique litigation firm specializing in trial and appellate litigation matters, and she served as an intern for the Office of White House Counsel where she worked on various public policy matters.
Ms. Motiwala graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a BA in Criminal Justice and received her JD from The George Washington University Law School in the spring of 2020.
During law school, Ms. Motiwala was a student attorney with the Criminal Appeals & Post-Conviction Services Clinic. She was part of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission’s Student Honors Program. She was a law clerk for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section; and she interned at the State of Florida’s Office of the Attorney General. Ms. Motiwala was also the Managing Editor of the Federal Circuit Bar Journal. She served as the Vice President of her law school’s Federalist Society chapter and the Mock Trial Board, in addition to the Anti-Corruption & Compliance Association.
Ms. Motiwala is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and is awaiting formal admission to the District of Columbia.

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