Who We Are
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Mrs. Jennifer Kennedy Cassidy
Board of Directors
Mrs. Jennifer Kennedy Cassidy is the daughter of Dr. D. James Kennedy. She serves as a spokeswoman for Coral Ridge Ministries and is a member of the Board of Coral Ridge Ministries. A graduate of Westminster Academy and Auburn University, Mrs. Cassidy pursued an active career in nursing in South Florida hospitals and is a certified Evangelism Explosion trainer. She and her husband Charles, "Chip," Cassidy, Jr., live in Delray Beach, Florida, along with their Jack Russell Terrier, Riley.
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Hector L. Padron
Executive Vice President
Hector L. Padron became Executive Vice President of Coral Ridge Ministries in August of 2008. A seasoned executive with more than 20years of managerial leadership in both the health care industry and in Christian ministry, Mr. Padron has a broad range of experience and expertise in strategic management, information technology, and business operations.
A native of New Jersey, Mr. Padron became a Christian in 1985. He has served as a Bible study leader, Sunday school teacher, and Christian worldview instructor. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Florida International University and a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Miami. Hector and his wife, Marilyn, have been married for 19 years and have three children.
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Dr. Jerry Newcombe
Sr. Producer
Jerry Newcombe, D. Min., serves as host of The Coral Ridge Hour and is Senior Producer for Coral Ridge Ministries television. He has produced or co-produced more than fifty documentaries. The host of two weekly radio shows, he has also been a guest on numerous television and radio talk shows. Dr. Newcombe is the author or co-author of 21 books, including with Dr. Kennedy, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?, How Would Jesus Vote?, and The Presence of a Hidden God. He is the author, most recently, of The Book That Made America. Dr. Newcombe and his wife, Kirsti, have two children and live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Robert Knight
Sr. Writer, Washington, D.C., Correspondant
Robert Knight is Senior Writer and Washington, D.C., Correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries. The author of the new book, Fighting For America's Soul: How Sweeping Change Threatens Our Nation and What We Must Do, he is a former news editor and writer for the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Knight directed the Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute (2006-2008), the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America (2001-2006) and the Cultural Studies Program at the Family Research Council (1992-2001). He was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (1989-1990).
A draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Knight was instrumental in its passage in 1996. He is the author of Not Fair, Not Free: The Fairness Doctrine Campaign to Crush Free Speech (Coral Ridge Ministries, 2009) and The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture (Spence Publishing, (1998, 2000).
Mr. Knight, who is also a Senior Fellow at the American Civil Rights Union, has appeared on all major TV news programs, including Fox News, CBS Evening News, the NBC Nightly News, ABC's World News Tonight, Oprah, Hannity & Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC as well as National Public Radio, Focus on the Family, Point of View, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Glenn Beck Show, the BBC, and American Family Radio. He has published articles in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, National Review, World, and the Wall Street Journal and writes regularly for Townhall.com, Human Events, WorldNetDaily, American Thinker, and OneNewsNow.
Mr. Knight has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in political science from American University, lives in northern Virginia, attends a non-denominational Bible church, and is married with children.
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