Dr. W. Hodding Carter III

Denomination: The Episcopal Church (TEC)

W. Hodding Carter III is a distinguished journalist, statesman, and educator. He is professor of leadership and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Carter began his career as a reporter with his family's Pulitzer Prize-winning Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi. He worked on two successful presidential campaigns, those of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976 whom he later served as State Department spokesman, notably during the Iran hostage crisis.

He went on to become a nationally known television commentator and newspaper correspondent on public affairs, working with PBS, BBC, The New York Times, and other major news publications and cable networks. More recently he served as president of the Knight Foundation. He has authored two books, The Reagan Years and The South Strikes Back. He is a member of an Episcopal church.