WASHINGTON -- The anti-gay hate group National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has ousted Maggie Gallagher as chairman of the board and named college professor John C. Eastman in her place.

Californians will recognize Eastman for his failed campaign to be elected state Attorney General in 2010. He finished second in a three-man race in the Republican primary and did not qualify for the general election. Eastman also lost a 1990 bid for Congress from California's 34th District.

Eastman, 51, is a professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, Calif.