Ron SpeersRon Speers is the CEO/Publisher of Anglican House Publishers, the publishing arm (Est. 2013) of the Anglican Church in North America. He was the founding Chairman and CEO of the Association of Western Anglican Congregations and later the first Presidnt and the Co-Chairman, with the Bishop, of the outcome of that group of churches: the Diocese of Western Anglicans, Anglican Church in North America. He is a member of the Governance Committee and the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America and serves as its Parliamentarian. Speers was a GAFCON Delegate and is a member of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. He is a former Senior Warden and current Rector's Council member of St. James Anglican Church, Newport Beach, California. He was made a Canon of the Diocese of Western Anglicans in 2011. Speers, a graduate of UCLA and the UCLA School of Law, is a retired member of the Bar of California and the bars of the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has recently authored amicus curiae briefs for that Court and the California Supreme Court. In the corporate world Speers was General Counsel of two NYSE listed multinational corporations and rose through the ranks to become President of one of them. He has served on various boards of directors, and held a TOP SECRET security clearance for more than twenty years. He was founding and managing partner of a law firm in Orange County, California ranked preeminent in five separate legal fields by Martindale-Hubble's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He has served on the boards and advisory boards of colleges and universities, currently the Board of Visitors of the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy. Speers coauthored the suspense-thriller series The Mallory Chronicles: The Hidden Empire (2003), The Rheingold Legacy (2006), and The Catalyst (2007). He also produced the follow-on Mallory Chronicles audio books with the renowned British actor Patrick Macnee. Ron and Flo Speers have three married children and eleven grandchildren. They live in Newport Beach, California. Read More Read Less