Dr. James Dobson
Focus on the Family
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Dr. James Dobson
James C. Dobson, Ph.D., is founder and chairman emeritus of Focus on the Family, a non-profit organization that produces his internationally syndicated radio programs, heard on over 3,000 radio facilities in North America and in 27 languages in approximately 4,130 additional facilities in over 160 other countries.

His commentaries are heard by more than 220 million people by way of radio every day, including a translation of a program carried on state-owned radio stations in the Republic of China. Dr. Dobson is a licensed psychologist in the state of California and a licensed marriage, family and child counselor in both California and Colorado. He is listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

Dobson was for 14 years an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and served for 17 years on the Attending Staff of Children's Hospital of Los Angeles in the Division of Child Development and Medical Genetics. He has an earned Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (1967) in the field of child development. In addition he has received the following honorary degrees: Doctor of Laws from Pepperdine University (1983); Doctor of Humanities from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio (1988); Doctor of Humane Letters from Seattle Pacific University (1988), Doctor of Humane Letters from Asbury Theological Seminary (1989); Doctor of Humane Letters from MidAmerica Nazarene College (1992); Doctor of Letters from Liberty University (1993); Doctor of Humane Letters from Campbell University (1994); Doctor of Humane Letters from Point Loma Nazarene College (1994); Doctor of Literature from Biola University (1995); Doctor of Humanities from Abilene Christian University (1995); Doctor of Humane Letters from Huntington College (1997); Doctor of Public Service from Greenville College (1997); Doctor of Humane Letters from William Tyndale College (1998); Doctor of Humanities from Harding University (1999); Doctor of Humanities from Olivet Nazarene University (1999); Doctor of Humane Letters from Indiana Wesleyan University (2005); and Doctor of Divinity from Southern Evangelical Seminary (2008).

Advocate for the Family
Dr. Dobson has been heavily involved in governmental activities related to the family. He served on the task force which summarized the White House Conference on Families and received a special commendation from President Jimmy Carter in 1980. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Advisory Commission to the office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1982-84. From 1984-87 he was regularly invited to the White House to consult with President Reagan and his staff on family matters. He served as co-chairman of the Citizens Advisory Panel for Tax Reform, in consultation with President Reagan, and served as a member and later chairman of the United States Army's Family Initiative, 1986-88.

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