CAMIE AWARDS!

Dr. R. Christopher Barden is president of CAMIE® AWARDS, INC. With a unique background as an attorney and psychologist, and as one of the country's foremost experts in the role of science in the legal system, Dr. Barden has led a crusade to reform the mental health system, focusing on protecting children and families from dangerous, pseudoscientific theories and treatments.

Dr. Barden has published in the leading journals in psychology, psychiatry, law, pediatrics, surgery, and legislation. He has served as an expert witness in many states as well as an invited speaker at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and at many other universities, professional associations, and state legislatures. Dr. Barden has been interviewed by U.S. Congressional Quarterly, TIME, NEWSWEEK, the WALL STREET JOURNAL, the NY TIMES, the LA TIMES, the BBC, CBS, ABC 20/20, NBC Dateline, National Public Radio, and many national media outlets. Chris and his wife, Robin, are the parents of four children who enjoy uplifting movies. They live near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mike Lee is an attorney known for his expertise in constitutional law with cases pending before various appellate courts throughout the country, including the US Supreme Court. Following law school, Mr. Lee served as a clerk to District Court Judge Dee V. Benson and then to Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Alito. After several years in private practice, Mr. Lee became an Assistant US Attorney, before being named General Counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman.

Then when Justice Alito was appointed to the Supreme Court, he asked Mike to join him for a year’s clerkship, which he did. Since then Mike has been a partner with the law firm of Howrey LLP. Becoming a trustee of CAMIE® AWARDS was a natural for a value-conscious Mike Lee, who has been concerned all his life about what is taught to children and adults in motion pictures. To Mike, his most important role is as a dedicated husband to his wife Sharon and father to their children, John, James, and Eliza.

Richard (Dee) Bradford, is a partner in the law firm of Bradford & Brady, P.C. and legal counsel for the CAMIE® AWARDS. He is a strong family advocate and has served in many capacities in scouting and youth organizations.

Dee and his wife, Susan, are the parents of nine children.

Levor Oldham is a retired businessman. He spent his professional life in the newspaper publishing, printing and software industries. He worked for 38 years with his eight siblings who together built a business beginning in a college apartment, to an international company recognized as a world leader in newspaper publishing technology.

He continues to serve on the board of directors of Liberty Press, a nationwide printing company that specializes in the printing of independent telephone directories across north America.

Levor and his wife, Christine, as the parents of eleven children and 22 grandchildren, are very concerned about the influence of entertainment in our culture.

Dr. Griffin founded the CAMIE® AWARDS and www.moviepicks.org and serves as chairman after years of being a family pediatrician, clinical professor, writer, and editor. Stories about his no-waiting-room clinic appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, on CNN, and in USA Today.

He wrote a syndicated column on parenting, several books including It Takes a Parent to Raise a Child and co-authored the best-seller, Good Fat Bad Fat—how to lower your cholesterol and beat the odds of a heart attack with Dr. William Castelli. Dr. Griffin was editor-in-chief of Postgraduate Medicine, editorial director of a major healthcare publishing company, and the first editor of the magazine, Marriage and Families. He has spoken at the International Congress on Families in Moscow, the World Congress on Families in Geneva, as well as in London, Paris, Malaysia, Singapore, Mongolia, and Indonesia. Dr. Griffin has also been a leader in the abstinence movement, explaining that sex is only for marriage while exposing the medically flawed condom-strategy. He serves on the national advisory board of The Medical Institute. Glen and his wife, Mary Ella, have six children and sixteen grandchildren.

Janet Lee Chamberlain is a founding member of the board of directors of the CAMIE® AWARDS. Although her background is in elementary education, she found herself in the spotlight as the wife of Rex E. Lee, the founding dean of the BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School, Solicitor General of the United States, and later president of Brigham Young University.

Through all this and Rex's death from cancer, Janet was "the wind beneath his wings." Janet is a well-known public speaker, author, member of the Deseret Book Publishing Co. editorial board, and for her service on the board of the world's largest organization for young women. With her husband, Wayne Chamberlain, they are loving grandparents who spend what time is left in church and community service.

John P. (Phil) Colton retired as a senior scientist from the US State Department and from the International Atomic Energy Agency specializing in Nuclear Technologies.  He and his wife Barbara lived in the Washington D.C. area for 14 years, 13 years in Vienna Austria and 3 years in South East Asia before returning to Utah.

He remains active in the energy area acting as an advisor and consultant for private, State and National interests.  He retired from the USAR as a Colonel having spent thirty-seven years in the reserves, active duty and mobilization (Desert Storm being the last.)

In 2005, in part because of work that Phil did, the IAEA Director General and staff were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to bring peace into the world through peaceful applications of the atom.

Ed Bak is the CFO of SDQ, Inc., a corporate consultant, and an adjunct professor at the College of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. His career in banking and finance in Europe and in the United States included directing banking operations in Poland, Germany, and other countries after which he was Assistant Treasurer of Metronic, Inc.

Ed is an extraordinary teacher, lecturer, and humorist. He is a problem solver and has a unique ability to analyze situations and to provide wise counsel in a business setting, with friends and family, and also in church service. Ed and his wife, Marie, are the parents of two sons.

Son of the well-known documentary/adventure filmmaker/explorer, John Goddard, Jeffery grew up surrounded by film production. He was a news anchor and TV reporter for while attending college majoring in Communications / Broadcasting. Soon after joining Ogilvy & Mather, Jeffery became their youngest-ever manager as well as chief liaison with Ogilvy’s partner, Tokyu Agency International.

Jeffery is CEO of TVA Productions which he founded in 1987 and today is one of the leading media production and news placement syndicates in North America. He is a much sought after lecturer and speaker. Since 1991 he has been the annual keynote speaker (in Japanese) at the graduation of 2000 students at the HAL Institute of Computer Technology (Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka). Jeffery is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (and on the Production Executives Committee and judge for the Emmy Awards since 1992), Adventurers Club, American Business Awards, Large Format Cinema Association, National Association of Television Program Executives, and Themed Entertainment Association. Jeffery’s best productions to date are his six vivacious children.