The SCJI is guided by the following members of its Board of Overseers that implements a detailed research protocol for its large-scale empirical studies.
- Fern P. O’Brian (Chair) – Partner, Thomson Hine LLP
- Dan R. Brouillette — Senior Vice President, Government and Industry Relations, USAA
- P. Brent Brown – Brown & Jennings, PLC
- Henry N. Butler – Executive Director, George Mason University Law & Economics Center
- Richard O. Faulk – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Joseph Goldberg — Partner, Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Ives & Duncan P.A.
- Markus Green — Senior Corporate Counsel, Pfizer, Inc.
- Harris L Hartz – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- Thomas H. Hill — Senior Executive Counsel, General Electric Co.
- Jeffrey W. Jackson – Senior Vice President and General Counsel, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Janet Langford Kelly – Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, ConocoPhillips
- Bruce Kobayashi – Professor, George Mason University School of Law
- Geoffrey J. Lysaught – Vice President of Strategy and Finance, The Heritage Foundation
- William B. Lytton – Senior Counsel, Dechert LLP
- Paul K. Mancini — Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, AT&T
- Alan B. Morrison — Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Sally B. Narey — General Counsel, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company
- Judyth Pendell – Pendell Consulting
- William Ray Price – Judge, Missouri Supreme Court
- Marsha Rabiteau — Legal Policy Strategies Group
- Victor E. Schwartz – Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Kelley D. Sears – Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Marschall I. Smith – Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel, 3M Company
- Joseph F. Speelman – Partner, Blank Rome LLP
- Gerald Bard Tjoflat – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Daniel E. Troy – Senior Vice President and General Counsel, GlaxoSmithKline PLC