been instrumental in selecting candidates for the Trump administration to appoint to federal courts. The New York Times reported the group is "urging their fellow conservatives to speak up about what they say are the Trump administration’s betrayals of bedrock legal norms," with Bellinger stating "Conservative lawyers are not doing enough to protect constitutional principles that are being undermined by the statements and actions of this president." In August 2020, Bellinger was one of 70 former senior security officials who took out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal, saying they would vote for Joe Biden as President. In 2020, Bellinger, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him." Bellinger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, the American Council on Germany, and the British-American Project. He is also member of the Secretary State's Advisory Committee on International Law. In 2012, he was appointed to the Defense Legal Policy Board. In October 2012, the American Law Institute named him as a Counselor for the Restatement Fourth of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Bellinger is a former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of his alma mater, St. Albans School. He is a Trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation and sits on the America Abroad Media advisory board. Personal Bellinger was born into the fourth generation of a United States Army family. His great-grandfather was an 1884 West Point graduate who retired from military service as a brigadier general. His grandfather and father were also West Point graduates who both retired as colonels. References External links State Department Biography (2005). Retrieved January 6, 2006. Office of the Press Secretary, The White House (March 2, 2001). Statement by the Press Secretary. Press Release. This article incorporates public domain text from a Department of State biography and a White House press release. 1960 births Living people Arnold & Porter people Harvard Law School alumni Lawyers who have represented the United States government People from Arlington County, Virginia Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni