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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Thomas Beall Griffith |
| Address |
Provo, Utah , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
July 05, 1954
(69 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
Jun 12, 2005 03:20am |
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| Info | DOJ website bio: [Link]
"Mr. Griffith is Assistant to the President and General Counsel of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brigham Young University and with High Honors with Distinction from its Honors Program. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the editorial and articles review boards of the Virginia Law Review.
Following graduation from law school, Mr. Griffith became an associate with the law firm of Robinson, Bradshaw, and Hinson in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1989, he joined the Washington, D. C. law firm of Wiley, Rein, and Fielding as an associate. He was elected to the partnership of that firm in 1993. Mr. Griffith’s practice involved commercial, corporate, employment, and First Amendment litigation, government investigations, and a significant pro bono representation of a death row inmate that led to a commutation of his sentence by the Governor of Virginia. In 1995, the United States Senate, by a unanimous resolution sponsored by the Republican and Democratic Leaders, appointed Mr. Griffith to the non-partisan position of Senate Legal Counsel of the United States, an office he held until 1999. As the chief legal officer of the United States Senate, Mr. Griffith represented the Senate, its committees, Members, officers, and employees in litigation relating to their constitutional powers and privileges and advised committees about their investigatory powers and procedures. Mr. Griffith represented the institutional interests of the Senate in the impeachment trial of President Clinton, the Line Item Veto Act litigation, which resulted in two landmark decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States, and in numerous committee investigations. Following his service as Senate Legal Counsel, Mr. Griffith returned to Wiley, Rein, and Fielding in 1999 where he was a partner in that firm’s litigation and government affairs practices. Mr. Griffith is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Since 1995, Mr. Griffith has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative of the American Bar Association, a project that helps build the rule of law in former communist countries of the Soviet bloc. From 1996 to 1999, he was an ex officio Council Member of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association. In 1999 and 2000, he served as General Counsel to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, which was created by Congress to study the implications of the growth of electronic commerce on tax policies for states and the Nation. In 2002 and 2003, Mr. Griffith served on the United States Secretary of Education’s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which was created to review and analyze the progress made in creating equal opportunities in intercollegiate athletics for men and women as a result of Title IX.
Mr. Griffith and his wife are natives of McLean, Virginia and were educated in the public schools of Fairfax County, Virginia. They are the parents of five daughters, two of whom are married, and a son."
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