Fred F. Fielding — Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Fred F. Fielding has been a Partner in Litigation Practice of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP since April 15, 2009. Mr. Fielding is an internationally known litigator, mediator, counselor, and strategic adviser who focuses his practice on corporate services, government affairs, complex crisis management issues, internal investigations, and white collar litigation, and provides general counseling to corporate and individual clients on a broad array of legal and policy issues. A litigator by training and experience, he has also served as an arbitrator in international and domestic disputes. Mr. Fielding has spent his distinguished legal career in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, he served as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from February 2007 to January 2009. Mr. Fielding also served as White House Counsel to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1986, and served in the Nixon White House as Deputy Counsel from 1972 to 1974 and as Associate Counsel from 1970 to 1972. Mr. Fielding's long record of leadership in public service includes being a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (commonly referred to as the 9/11 Commission), clearance counsel for the 2000 Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition, a member of the Secretary of Transportation's Task Force on Aviation Disasters (1997'1998), a member of the Tribunal on the U.S.'U.K. Air Treaty Dispute (1989'1994), and a member of the President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989). Mr. Fielding previously served at Morgan Lewis as a partner from 1974 to 1981 and as an associate from 1964 to 1970. He also served as a senior partner in and a leader of the government affairs, business and finance, and litigation practices of a national law firm prior to his appointment to the Bush White House. Mr. Fielding received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1964, where he served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review. He received his A.B., cum laude, in political science from Gettysburg College in 1961. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from Detroit College of Law and Pepperdine University School of Law.