{"id":5617,"date":"2013-02-07T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:48:54","slug":"john-ryder-71-named-rnc-general-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/02\/07\/john-ryder-71-named-rnc-general-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ryder \u201971 named RNC General Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/02\/john-ryder.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5618\" title=\"john ryder\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/02\/john-ryder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a> National Committee has announced the appointment of <strong>John Ryder \u201971<\/strong> as the new RNC General Counsel.\u00a0 John has been active with the RNC since 1996, including as Tennessee national committeeman, redistricting committee, presidential nominating committee,\u00a0delegate to the national convention, and he currently serves on the Rules Committee.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/news\/press-releases\/rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-announces-rnc-general-counsel\/\"> Click here <\/a>to read the press release.<\/p>\n<p>After Wabash, John earned his JD from Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 He is a member of the law firm Harris, Shelton, Hanover &amp; Walsh in Memphis.. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Opera Memphis, a member of the Economic Club of Memphis and a member of St. John\u2019s Episcopal Church. Previously, Ryder was the co-chairman of the Southern Region and director of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. He is vice President for Judicial Affairs for the Republican National Lawyers Association and serves as Senior Advisor to the Memphis Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, John!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee has announced the appointment of John Ryder \u201971 as the new RNC General Counsel.\u00a0 John has been active with the RNC since 1996, including as Tennessee national committeeman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}