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Carl A. Anderson
Supreme Knight

As Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, Carl A. Anderson is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the world's largest Catholic family fraternal service organization with more than 1.6 million members.

He has had a distinguished career as an educator and public servant. From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Anderson served in various positions of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, including Special Assistant to the President and acting Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. Following his service at the White House, Mr. Anderson served for nearly a decade as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
From 1983 to 1998, Mr. Anderson taught as a visiting professor of family law at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Since 1988, he has been a member of the faculty and Vice President of the Washington, D.C. session of this graduate school of theology now located at The Catholic University of America.

In 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed Mr. Anderson to the Pontifical Academy for Life. In 2000, Pope John Paul II named him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He was the only layman from North America to serve as an auditor to the October 2001 World Synod of Bishops. In 2002, Mr. Anderson was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity by the pope. Later that year he was named by the Holy Father to be a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family. Also in 2002 he was appointed a consultant to the Pro-Life Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. In 1994, he was a member of the Vatican delegation for the Fifteenth Meeting of the International Jewish Liaison Committee held in Jerusalem.

Mr. Anderson currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Mr. Anderson has served as Assistant Supreme Secretary and Supreme Secretary of the Knights of Columbus until becoming Supreme Knight in October 2000. Prior to that he served as the Order's Vice President for Public Policy from 1987 to 1997. He has been Grand Knight, District Deputy, State Advocate, State Secretary and State Deputy for the District of Columbia jurisdiction.

Mr. Anderson holds degrees in philosophy from Seattle University (1972) and in law from the University of Denver (1975). He is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court.

He and his wife, Dorian, are the parents of five children.

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