The Justice Access Coalition board met quarterly in Washington.
My first meeting was in November, a two-day affair at a conference center near the Capitol. I took the train down on a Sunday evening and checked into the hotel and sat at the desk and looked at the agenda and felt, for the first time since the co-CEO appointment, genuinely out of my depth.
Not incompetent. Out of depth is different. It is the feeling of the water being deeper than you expected, not the feeling of not knowing how to swim.
There were fourteen board members. Federal judges, former attorneys general, law school deans, a retired senator who had spent two decades on judiciary committees. I was the youngest in the room by twelve years. I was the only one who had come from a corporate background rather than a poli
