Supreme Knight of The Knights of Columbus
As supreme knight, Anderson is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the world’s largest Catholic family fraternal service organization, which has more than 1.8 million members. Before his election in 2000, Anderson served as assistant supreme secretary and supreme secretary for the Order. Prior to that, he served for 10 years as the vice president for public policy and two years as the State Deputy of the District of Columbia jurisdiction. Anderson is a member and Past Grand Knight of Potomac Council #433 and a member of the James Cardinal Hickey Prince of the Church fourth degree assembly, both in Washington, DC. According to Form 990 filed with the Internal Revenue Service by the Knights of Columbus for the 2009 tax year, Anderson received a total compensation of $1,179,762 from the Knights of Columbus in the year 2009. Anderson has been active in promoting the Catholic Church's recent Religious Liberty campaign. In an article in the Knights of Columbus publication, Columbia, written in September 2012, he argues that certain actions taken by the Department of Health and Human Services at the request of the Obama administration violate the religious liberty of Catholic institutions by requiring them to provide services on employee health care plans that are contrary to official Church teachings. He sees this as an attack on the type of religious freedom guaranteed in the first amendment.
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