Captain Hudgens is AUD's former Chairman of the Board and currently Honorary Chairman of the Board of the Ashburn Institute. He served as President and CEO of the Association to Unite the Democracies for six years in the 1990's. He is currently serving as Honorary Vice-President of the Campaign for UN Reform and a Certified Lay Speaker of the United Methodist Church . He previously served as Vice-President of the World Federalist Association, President of the World Citizens Assembly, and President of the Denver Executives Club. He is the author of "Let's Abolish War" which has sold over 110,000 copies. He has also written "The Night Jesus Christ Returned to Earth" which is currently in circulation. During WWII, Captain Hudgens was a flight instructor and Chief Pilot at an Army Air Corps Flight Training School at Cimarron Field , Oklahoma . After the war he served United Airlines as Captain and Flight Manager for 36 years.