About Len

Len Munsil, a third-generation Arizonan, has an accomplished record as a public policy expert, a conservative organizational entrepreneur, a lawyer, a journalist, and an author.

He has been a principled conservative leader in Arizona for more than 20 years, going back to his days as editor in chief of the daily newspaper at Arizona State University.

He has experience in all three branches of government, and has devoted nearly two decades to influencing public policy on behalf of children and families.

He helped found a public policy organization, The Center for Arizona Policy, that quickly became one of the largest and most influential state-based groups in the United States.

Out of more than a dozen declared or potential candidates for Governor of Arizona in 2006, only two were interviewed by The Arizona Republic as among 22 “integral” leaders in Arizona at the beginning of 2005 – Len Munsil and Janet Napolitano.

Munsil, 42, has been a licensed attorney for 17 years. He is admitted to practice in Arizona and federal courts, including eight U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He has authored numerous amicus curiae briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court.

He served a prestigious judicial clerkship for Judge Daniel A. Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

He was appointed by Gov. Fife Symington to the Arizona Juvenile Justice Advisory Council.

As founding President and General Counsel for The Center for Arizona Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization, he presided over CAP's rapid growth into one of the largest and most powerful state public policy organizations in the United States, with a staff of 18 and a 2005 budget of nearly 1.8 million.

During his tenure at The Center for Arizona Policy, he has made hundreds of media appearances and spoken to thousands of Arizonans through public appearances annually. His daily radio commentaries have been heard multiple times each day on radio stations throughout Arizona by thousands of listeners. His e-mail updates have reached thousands of families each week.

He is an Arizona native, graduating from Scottsdale High School and Arizona State University. At ASU, he served as Editor of the university's daily newspaper where he hired and supervised 40 paid student employees; he was named Outstanding Journalism Graduate of the Walter Cronkite School. From 1981 to 1985 he was a professional sportswriter for the Scottsdale Daily Progress (now Tribune).

Mr. Munsil and his wife, Tracy, have eight children. Tracy is a summa cum laude graduate of ASU and holds a Master's Degree in Political Science. She is also an Outstanding Journalism Graduate of the Walter Cronkite School at ASU, has served as a journalist in Washington D.C. and as a political media consultant to legislative candidates. She has served as Director of Research and Publications for The Center for Arizona Policy, and was editor of Arizona Citizen from 1993 to 2002.