Dr. Harris Wofford

Head of the Corporation for National and Community Service since the fall of 1995, Harris Wofford has dedicated much of his career to the goal of making citizen service a common expectation and experience for all Americans. As a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1994, he played a key role in both crafting and working to pass the trailblazing legislation that created the Corporation with broad bi-partisan support.

Wofford has been both a law professor and president of two colleges, the State University of New York at Old Westbury and of Bryn Mawr College. Wofford is an alumnus of the University of Chicago, (B.A., 1948) and both Howard University and Yale Law Schools (J.D., 1954). He has also practiced law and authored several books, including Of Kennedys and Kings. He and his late wife Clare, with whom he co-wrote the book India Afire, have three children and four grandchildren.