Fred F. Fielding new White House counsel

A Commissioner on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Fred Fisher Fielding [DOB March 21, 1939] is senior partner and head of Wiley, Rein, & Fielding's Government Affairs, Business & Finance, Litigation and Crisis Management/White Collar Crime Practices. Fred F. Fielding, 202.719.7320 ffielding@wrf.com

From 1981-1986, he served as Counsel to the President of the United States, as deputy counsel from 1972-1974 and as Associate Counsel from 1970-1972. He also served as clearance counsel during the Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition. In addition to his public service as White House counsel, Fielding has served as the U.S.-designated arbitrator at the Tribunal on the U.S.-U.K. Air Treaty Dispute (1989-1994), as a member of the president's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989) and as a member of the secretary of transportation's Task Force on Aviation Disasters, (1997-1998), as well as numerous other commissions.

He is a member of the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Bars, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Federal, First, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits; the U.S. Court of Military Appeals; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He holds an A.B., with honors, from Gettysburg College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Counsel to the President of the United States, The White House (1981-1986); Deputy Counsel (1972-1974); Associate Counsel (1970-1972).
• Commissioner, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States (9/11 Commission) (2002-2004).
• Member, Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (1987-1995, 2002-2007).
• Member, President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989).
• U.S. Designated Arbitrator, Arbitration Tribunal on U.S.-U.K. Air Treaty Dispute (1989-1994).
• Clearance Counsel, Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition (2000-2001).
• Member, Secretary of Transportation’s Task Force on Aviation Disasters (1997-1998).
• Member, National Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution (2000-Present).
• Chairman, Board of Directors, National Legal Center for the Public Interest (2002-Present).
• Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors, Ethics Resource Center (1993-Present).
• Trustee, Gettysburg College (1998-Present).
• Chairman, Compliance Committee and Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Hospital Center (1994-Present).
• Chair, Board of Directors, Eisenhower Institute (1999-Present).

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

• Director, American Bar Association, Central and East European Law Initiative (2002-Present).
• Member, American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary (1996-2002).
• Former Director, Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

AFFILIATIONS

• Member, Barristers Club.
• Member, Lawyers Club.
• Member, Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Awarded Medal of Honor, Gettysburg College (2005).
• Recognized as a “Top Criminal Defense Lawyer” and “Top Appointments Lawyer” by Washingtonian magazine (2004).
• Named “Lawyer of the Year” by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2004).
• Selected by the District of Columbia Bar as a “Legend in the Law” for professional prominence and individual impact on the law and legal profession in Washington, DC (January 2001).
• Recognized as one of "The Best Lawyers in America” for commercial litigation and government relations law (1996-2007).

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Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus (Biography)

04/08/08 - Petraeus & Crocker Testify - Windows Media. FULL STREAMING VIDEO

Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, U.S. Army, Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth. Commandant, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Deputy Commanding General for Combined Arms, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. Director, Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance.

Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus assumed command of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth on October 20th, 2005 following deployment in Iraq as the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq, which he led from June 2004 to September 2005, and the NATO Training Mission – Iraq, which he commanded from October 2004 to September 2005. Prior to that deployment, he commanded the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), leading the “Screaming Eagles” in combat during the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His command of the 101st followed a year deployed on Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, where he was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations of the NATO Stabilization Force and the Deputy Commander of the US Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force – Bosnia. Prior to his tour in Bosnia, he spent two years at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, serving first as the Assistant Division Commander for Operations of the 82nd Airborne Division and then as the Chief of Staff of XVIII Airborne Corps.

Lieutenant General Petraeus was commissioned in the Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1974. He has held leadership positions in airborne, mechanized, and air assault infantry units in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, including command of a battalion in the 101st Airborne Division and a brigade in the 82nd Airborne Division. In addition, he has held a number of staff assignments: Aide to the Chief of Staff of the Army; service as a battalion, brigade, and division operations officer; Military Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Chief of Operations of the United Nations Force in Haiti; and Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Lieutenant General Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class of 1983. He subsequently earned MPA and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and later served as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the US Military Academy. He also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University.

Awards and decorations earned by General Petraeus include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Defense Superior Service Medal, four awards of the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal for valor, the State Department Superior Honor Award, the NATO Meritorious Service Medal, and the Gold Award of the Iraqi Order of the Date Palm. He is a Master Parachutist and is Air Assault and Ranger qualified. He has also earned the Combat Action Badge and French, British, and German Jump Wings. In the fall of 2005, he was recognized by the U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s 25 Best Leaders.

LTG Petraeus and his wife have two children, a son and a daughter.

Last Reviewed: September 25, 2006

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• UPDATE: 09/10/07 - General Petraeus the Situation in Iraq VIDEO - General Petraeus: Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq - Part One. FULL STREAMING VIDEO, file is real media format running time is 2:51:10. House Joint Hearing on the Petraeus Report - Part Two (9/10/2007) FULL STREAMING VIDEO, file is real media format running time is 3:17:37. Full PDF of Gereal Petraeus's opening statement and 13 charts.
• UPDATE: 01/23/07, Senate Committee, Iraq Commander (Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus) Nomination Hearing, Armed Services, Carl Levin , D-MI, David H. Petraeus , U.S. Army. File is real media format, running time is 4:00:23
• UPDATE: Freedom Journal Iraq - FULL STREAMING VIDEO, A daily news program produced by American Forces Network Iraq. The program focuses on military missions, operations and U.S. military forces in Iraq.

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