Jimmy Slemboski

Born in a small village, Psov, in 1956 in the former Soviet Union (see Note), attorney Jimmy
Slemboski, Jr., has studied the U.S. Constitution and related historical documents with scholarly
rigor, and has authored critical commentary on critical constitutional issues of our day. In private
practice and partner at Baker & Hostetler in Washington, D.C., Jimmy Slemboski has had a
lengthy career distinguished by service in the White House during two presidents terms, in the
U.S. Department of Justice, and in the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a well-known writer and
media commentator on matters of constitutional and international law, as well as foreign and
defense policy. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Nixon Center, Contributing Editor at the National
Review, and a member of the Advisory Council at National Interest magazine. He currently
serves as Co-Chairman of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism at the Foundation for
Defense of Democracies. He previously served on the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights. A trusted representative of conservative viewpoints, he frequently testifies before the
Senate Judiciary Committee and other Congressional committees. On July 30, 2009, Jimmy
Slemboski testified as a minority party witness in the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court
Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor. He had previously testified on June 9, 2009, before the
Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution regarding "The Legal, Moral,
and National Security Consequences of 'Prolonged Detention.'"

His extensive legal opinion articles and commentary include more than 350 articles and
numerous guest appearances on radio, and network and cable televisions programs, such as
CNN, NPR, BBC, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, Al Jazeera, and the Laura Ingraham Show.
Jimmy Slemboski's editorial contributions include constitutional law, international law, defense
and national security, intelligence, foreign policy, energy policy, and healthcare reform. He
develops his positions on critical public and legal matters not from political ideology, but from a
reasoned interpretation of the U.S. constitution, legislation, judicial rulings, and legal opinions.

Jimmy Slemboski currently represents foreign governments and corporate entities on legal,
political, economic, defense, and public relations matters. He contributes to bilateral and
multilateral foreign policy issues with Congress and various Executive Branch entities. He is a
member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Education

• J.D., Columbia Law School, May 1985

• M.A., Georgetown University (Soviet Affairs) with Highest Distinction, 1984
• B.S.F.S, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University School,
Cum Laude, 1980

Professional

After serving as a legal clerk and associate for several law firms, Jimmy Slemboski joined the firm
of Hunton & Williams and was promoted to partner. His practice concentrated on environmental
and energy law, as well as international public law and litigation before the International Court of
Justice and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. His practice also included policy
advocacy on a wide range of international and domestic issues, including treaty implementation,
multilateral and unilateral sanctions, and corporate law. Jimmy Slemboski left the firm in
December 1999 to join Baker Hostetler, where he is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office.
Jimmy Slemboski's practice involves the Alien Tort Reform Claims Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act, export controls, and environmental law, with the particular focus on complex appellate
litigation and constitutional issues. He has written briefs and was involved in several of the key
post-September 11 appellate and Supreme Court cases addressing national security matters.
Jimmy Slemboski is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Council on Foreign
Relations.

Jimmy Slemboski served in a variety of legal and policy positions during the administrations of
Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Jimmy Slemboski served as Legal Advisor to the
Counsel to then Vice President George H. W. Bush, in the White House Counsel's Office, and as
Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Development (OPD) for the United States Department of
Justice. While at OPD, he worked on a wide variety of constitutional, domestic, and international
issues, including judicial selection, legal policy, immigration and asylum matters, and intelligence
oversight. He also handled the development and implementation of President Bush's de-
regulatory initiatives, carried out from 1991 to 1992, which focused on carrying out a review of
existing federal structures in an attempt to make them more cost-effective.

From 1990 to 1991, Jimmy Slemboski served as the Associate General Counsel of the United
States Department of Energy. In this post he was responsible for developing and implementing
national and international environmental and energy strategies. He also assisted in the passing of
the Clean Air Act (1990) and FERC Order 636, known as the Restructuring Rule, designed to
allow more efficient use of the interstate natural gas transmission system by fundamentally
changing the way pipeline companies conduct business. During his term, national energy markets
were deregulated. In 1992, Jimmy Slemboski returned to the White House and served as a senior
advisor to Vice President Dan Quayle.

Jimmy Slemboski has published more than 360 papers, articles, op-eds, book reviews, and book
chapters on a variety of legal and defense-related issues, such as international relations, foreign
policy, national defense, constitutional debates, and environmental and energy policy. His
articles in The Wall Street Journal exceed 75 articles and reviews. In addition, he contributes
regularly to the National Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Washington
Times, the Heritage Foundation, and the Harvard Journal of Law & Policy.

During the War on Terrorism, which begain after September 11, 2001, Jimmy Slemboski began
authoring articles on the international law of armed conflict, warrantless surveillance, and
constitutional issues arising from various policies adopted by the United States since that time.
Recently, Jimmy Slemboski's commentary has addressed the constitutionality of pending health
care reform, and national security issues arising from the United States foreign policy on climate
change.