Senator Shelley Moore Capito
U.S. Senator (West Virginia)
America250 Leadership
The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission was established by Congress in 2016 to plan and orchestrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Appointed by the House and Senate leadership of both parties, the nonpartisan Commission is composed of 16 private citizens, 4 U.S. Representatives and 4 Senators, as well as 12 ex-officio members from all three branches of the federal government and its independent agencies.
Senator Lisa Murkowski
U.S. Senator (Alaska)
Senator Alex Padilla
U.S. Senator (California)
Senator Jeanne Shaheen
U.S. Senator (New Hampshire)
Representative Robert Aderholt
U.S. Representative (Alabama 4th)
Representative Dwight Evans
U.S. Representative (Pennsylvania 3rd)
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman
U.S. Representative (New Jersey 12th)
Representative Maria Elvira Salazar
U.S. Representative (Florida 27th)
Robert A. Brady
Former U.S. Representative (Pennsylvania)
Reginald Browne
Jennifer Condon
Interim Executive Director of the USSC and Executive Vice President of A250
Val Crofts
Joe Crowley
Former U.S. Representative (New York)
Daniel M. DiLella
Cathy Gillespie
Noah Griffin, Jr.
Wilfred M. McClay, Ph.D.
Lucas Morel, Ph.D.
Rosie Rios
Chair
James L. Swanson
Thomas Walker, Jr.
Lynn Forney Young
Deb Haaland
Secretary of the Interior
Antony Blinken
Secretary of State
Merrick Garland
Attorney General of the United States
Lloyd Austin III
Secretary of Defense
Miguel Cardona, Ph.D.
Secretary of Education
Anthony Kennedy
Former Associate Justice
Carla Hayden, Ph.D.
Librarian of Congress
Lonnie Bunch III
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Colleen Shogan
Archivist of the United States
Cyndee Landrum
Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson
Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
Shelly C. Lowe
Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
America’s Field Trip Awardees!
Thousands of students from across the country submitted inspiring entries, responding to the prompt “What does America mean to you?” for the first-ever America’s Field Trip contest. A panel of current and former educators selected 150 students as awardees, hailing from 44 states and territories.