Join special guests editor-in-chief of The Federalist Mollie Hemingway and General Jack Keane for Bellevue's premier policy gala!

Friday, October 25^th
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
5:30pm Reception
6:30pm Dinner
VIP experience available

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WPC’s Annual Dinner events bring together thousands people from all over the state to discuss free-market ideas and celebrate the impact Washington Policy Center has on our state. This year's keynote presentations in Bellevue include Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist and savvy political expert Mollie Hemingway and decorated military leader and foreign policy expert General Jack Keane.

2024 Annual Dinner Keynote Speakers in Bellevue

Mollie Hemingway, Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway provides unique and thoughtful reporting and analysis of American politics and culture. She helped launch and is Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist, which has become one of the most influential voices in politics and has millions of readers. She is a Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College where she teaches journalism. A Fox News contributor, she is a regular member of the Fox News All-Stars panel on “Special Report with Bret Baier." She has been profiled in the New York Times and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Claremont Review of Books, and Christianity Today.

Mollie was a 2004 recipient of a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship and a 2014 Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute. In 2021, her distinguished reporting and commentary earned her the prestigious Bradley Prize, awarded for extraordinary contributions to American scholarship and debate, and in 2019, recognizing her "journalistic integrity and willingness to stand alone beside the truth," the Heritage Foundation conferred on her its Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.

Hemingway holds an honorary doctorate from Concordia Theological Seminary. She is the co-author of the #1 national best seller "Justice On Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court” and the author of “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.”

General Jack Keane

General Jack Keane is a foreign policy and national security expert who provides nationwide analysis and commentary in speeches, articles, congressional testimony and through several hundred television and radio interviews annually. He serves as an advisor to presidents, cabinet officials, members of congress, international leaders, CEOs and business leaders. He is the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, a member of the prestigious Secretary of Defense Policy Board, having advised four Defense Secretaries and a member of the 2018 and 2022 Congressional Commission on the National Defense Strategy.

General Keane, a four-star general, completed 37 years of public service in December 2003, culminating in his appointment as acting Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. As the chief operating officer of the Army for over 4 years, he directed 1.5 million soldiers and civilians in 120 countries, with an annual operating budget of 110 billion dollars. General Keane was in the Pentagon on 9/11 and provided oversight and support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In late 2006 President Bush invited General Keane to the Oval Office among others to discuss Iraq.  Alone among them, General Keane brought the president a concrete strategic concept, later to be known as the troop "surge" which he helped develop, to change American strategy for the war and improve its execution. During the surge period General Keane conducted frequent trips to Iraq and Afghanistan for senior defense officials. General Keane is a career infantry paratrooper, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War decorated for valor, who spent much of his military life in operational commands, including command of the famed 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and the legendary 18th Airborne Corps, the Army’s largest warfighting organization. During his five-year assignment at Fort Lewis, General Keane and his late wife fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. United by their passion for outdoor adventure, they were avid skiers, backpackers and snow and ice mountain climbers to include summitting Mount Rainier together.

General Keane is the son of an immigrant mother, a WWII Marine father, a born and raised New Yorker and lifelong NY Yankee fan. He was commissioned an infantry 2nd Lieutenant from Army ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate at Fordham University receiving a Bachelor of Science degree and received a Master of Arts degree from Western Kentucky University. He is a graduate of the Army War College and the Army Command and General Staff College. 

Among his awards, General Keane was the first military leader to be honored with the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award and the prestigious Bradley Prize. In March of 2020 General Keane was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House. General Keane’s numerous military service medals and citations include two Defense and two Army Distinguished Service Medals, five Legions of Merit, the Silver Star, Bronze Star, three Vietnam Service medals, Combat Infantryman Badge, Master Parachutist Badge and Ranger Tab, to list a few.

Tickets and tables of 10 are available! You can view sponsorship benefits on our form here.

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Tickets for legislators and legislative staff will be made available at cost subject to availability.