The annual Ashbrook Memorial Dinner is the most significant political event in Ohio each year, drawing guests from throughout the state. This annual fund-raiser for the Ashbrook Center was inaugurated by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 at the first Ashbrook Memorial Dinner. Since then, we have been honored with distinguished keynote speakers, including Margaret Thatcher, Benjamin Netanyahu, George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, John Boehner, Clarence Thomas, Mitt Romney, and Barbara Bush, among others.

This event consists of three parts: a private, off-the-record conversation with our undergraduate Ashbrook Scholar students, a reception, and then dinner followed by the keynote speech.