{{Short description|American activist (born 1948)}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Ken Cribb |image = Ken Cribb 1983.jpg |office = Director of the Domestic Policy Council |president = Ronald Reagan |term_start = March 30, 1987 |term_end = December 2, 1987 |predecessor = Ralph Bledsoe |successor = David McIntosh |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|8|7}} |birth_place = Spartanburg, South Carolina, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |education = {{nowrap|Washington and Lee University}} {{small|(BA)}}<br>University of Virginia {{small|(JD)}} }} '''Troy Kenneth "Ken" Cribb Jr.''' is a former presidential advisor to President Ronald Reagan.
==Early life and education== Cribb was born August 7, 1948, in Spartanburg, South Carolina.<ref>{{cite web |title=Appointment of T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., as a Member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States, July 14, 1986 |url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/appointment-t-kenneth-cribb-jr-member-council-administrative-conference-united |website=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum|date=1986-07-14 |access-date=2025-07-01}}</ref> His parents were T. Kenneth Cribb Sr. and Dicksie Brown Cribb. His father was an agribusinessman, merchandising and marketing expert, civic and religious leader, a trustee of Clemson University, and held an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Francisco Marroquin.
Cribb attended Washington and Lee University, where he graduated in 1970.<ref name=RRLM>{{cite web |title=Appointment of T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs |url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/appointment-t-kenneth-cribb-jr-assistant-president-domestic-affairs |website=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum |date=1987-03-30 |access-date=2025-07-01}}</ref> From 1971 to 1977, Cribb served as national director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. After that, he attended the University of Virginia Law School, where he graduated in 1980.<ref name=RRLM/>
==Career== He was deputy to the chief counsel of the Reagan campaign the same year. After working as a Wall Street lawyer, he served as a counselor to the Attorney General and then as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs in the Reagan Administration.
He was president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute from 1989 to 2011 and served on its board until May 2012. During his tenure, ISI expanded its educational programs.<ref name=feulner>Edwin J. Feulner Jr.: [http://www.mmisi.org/galatext/intro_to_cribb.pdf Introduction to T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.] Presentation at ISI's 50th Anniversary, 2003.</ref> He also served as vice chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 1989 to 1992. He was also president of the Collegiate Network, an association of alternative college newspapers; president of the Council for National Policy, a conservative umbrella organization; member of the board of advisors for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; is counselor to the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a conservative legal organization. Cribb also serves on the board of advisors of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, an educational organization that continues the intellectual legacy of noted conservative icon Russell Kirk, and on the Board of Visitors of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.ralston.ac/ |title = Ralston College}}</ref> He also served as president of the Philadelphia Society.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://phillysoc.org/presiden.htm |title=Presidents of the Philadelphia Society |accessdate=2012-08-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223102538/http://phillysoc.org/presiden.htm |archivedate=2010-02-23 }}</ref>
Cribb has been published in ''National Review,'' ''The American Spectator'', ''The Intercollegiate Review'', ''Modern Age'', and ''Human Events''.
Edwin Feulner, co-founder and former president of The Heritage Foundation, stated that "the conservative movement had no better friend in the highest councils of state during the Reagan era than Ken Cribb".<ref name=feulner />
==Sources== *T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.: ''All American Colleges. Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-fashioned Liberals, And People of Faith,'' ISI Books 2006. {{ISBN|1-932236-88-0}}
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==External links== * Estuardo Zapeta: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070610215204/http://www.newmedia.ufm.edu.gt/pagina.asp?nom=cribbdoctorado Interview with T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.] New Media, UFM, Guatemala, November 18, 2005. * T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908092748/http://www.phillysoc.org//cribbphi.htm The Founders and the Rising Generation] Speech at the Philadelphia Society Meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia November 23, 1996. * {{C-SPAN|1378}}
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