Board of Advisors

Timothy S. Goeglein brings to CJA his love of championing God’s welcomed role in the public square, as his years of public service and private initiative have been devoted to faith, freedom, and family. Goeglein has served in many high-level government posts for two decades. He worked as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, where he was the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison from 2001 to 2008. He was the President’s principal outreach contact for conservatives, think tanks, veteran’s groups, faith-based groups, and some of America’s leading cultural organizations. Goeglein was also a member of the President’s original 2000 campaign and White House staff, serving for nearly eight years. He has also served as a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and as a professor of government at Liberty University.

Goeglein is currently Focus on the Family’s Vice President for External and Government Relations.

In addition to his many political positions, Goeglein is the author of the political memoir The Man in the Middle: Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era (B and H Books, 2011) and American Restoration: How Faith, Family and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation (Regnery, 2019). American culture. His latest work is Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story (Fidelis Books, 2023).

Goeglein is the secretary of the Coalitions for America board, a member of the board for the National Civic Art Society, a member of the board of Family Policy Alliance, and a member of the board of governors of the Young America’s Foundation, which owns and operates the Ronald Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California.

Goeglein also serves on the Institute for American Universities Advisory Board. Goeglein served as Board Secretary of the American Conservative Union Foundation. He is a member of the Philadelphia Society, and the Capitol Hill Club. Tim serves on the Sanctity of Life Commission for his church body, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; is a board member of The Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty; and has served as a deacon in his church in northern Virginia for 30 years. He has been married to his wife Jenny for 31 years, and they have two grown sons.