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11 October 2024 President’s Forum Series: Hugh Hewitt
Attorney, author, and conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt joins the President’s Forum Series for a conversation about the 2024 elections.
On Thursday, Oct. 17, the President’s Forum Series welcomes Hugh Hewitt, attorney, author, and conservative radio host.
Hewitt will join the HWS community virtually for a conversation with President Mark D. Gearan and the campus audience about contemporary politics and the presidential and congressional races this cycle. The conversation will be held in Froelich Hall in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts at 5 p.m.
Hewitt is the host of a nationally syndicated radio show broadcast in more than 120 cities across the country every weekday afternoon. He writes daily for his blog, HughHewitt.com, as well as a weekly column for The Washington Examiner and Townhall.com. He also hosts two podcasts daily, “Highly Concentrated Hugh” and “The Interview with Hugh Hewitt,” and teaches constitutional law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, where he serves as faculty advisor for the Nexus Journal of Law & Public Policy. In 2023, Hewitt moderated the third Republican primary debate alongside NBC’s Lester Holt and Kristen Welker. He moderated several Republican primary debates during the 2016 election cycle alongside CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
An honors graduate in government from Harvard College, Hewitt received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School where he graduated Order of the Coif. He served for nearly six years in the Reagan Administration in a variety of posts including Assistant Counsel in the White House and Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States. Since returning to California in 1989 to oversee the construction of the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Hewitt has served as a member of the California Arts Council, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the Orange County Children and Families Commission.
A frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network and MSNBC, Hewitt has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He received three Emmys during his decade as co-host of the week-night television news and public affairs show Life & Times on PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET-TV. He also conceived of and hosted the eight-part 1996 PBS television series Searching For God In America, and he authored a companion book by the same name. Hewitt is the author of more than a dozen books, including two New York Times best sellers including The Queen: The Epic Ambition of Hillary and the Coming of a Second “Clinton Era,” GOP 5.0: Republican Renewal Under President Obama and First Principles: A Primer of Ideas for the College Bound Student.
Established in 2000 by President Mark D. Gearan, the President's Forum brings a variety of speakers to campus to share their knowledge and ideas with students, faculty and staff, as well as with interested community members.
John King, a veteran political correspondent and CNN’s award-winning chief national correspondent, joins the President’s Forum Series on Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. to discuss his experience reporting on elections and the issues at play in the 2024 presidential contest.
