Thurgood Marshall, Jr.

Thurgood Marshall, Jr. is an American lawyer and son of the late Supreme Court of the United States Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is also the brother of John W. Marshall, the current Virginia Secretary of Public Safety, and former Director of the U.S. Marshals Service.

Thurgood Marshall Jr. worked in the Clinton White House and is currently a partner at the international law firm Bingham McCutchen, LLP and a principal at its lobbying subsidiary, Bingham Consulting. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation. According to documents filed with the SEC, he is a director serving on the board of Corrections Corporation of America, the largest commercial vendor of federal detainment and prisoner transport in the United States. [citation needed]

Private practice

Bingham McCutchen gained Marshall as a partner when it acquired Swidler Berlin, where he had been a partner since 2001. In addition to counseling clients, Marshall provided internal advice to Swidler Berlin on ethics compliance and corporate governance. He became a managing director of Swidler Berlin's Harbour Group in 2005. [http://www.harbourgrp.com/news_pr_011005.html] . He is now part of Bingham McCutchen’s Government Affairs practice, counseling clients on relations with Congress, the Executive Branch and independent regulatory agencies. He has provided legislative and regulatory counsel on corporate mergers, professional and amateur sports, commercial aviation, utilities and banking regulation, and legal process reforms.

Marshall has been named one of Washington's top campaign and election by Washingtonian Magazine, a leading lawyer in government relations law by The Best Lawyers in America, and included on the Best Lawyers List of the Washington Post Magazine. Newsweek named him one of the 100 people to watch in the new century.

Government service

Marshall came to Swidler Berlin from the Clinton Administration, where he had served since 1997 as Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet. In that role, he managed White House relations with the executive departments; his responsibilities included organizing cabinet meetings and briefings, compiling a daily update of cabinet department activities, and coordinating responses to natural and transportation disasters. As vice chair of the White House Olympic Task Force, he coordinated federal government’s preparations for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. He was also a member of the Interagency Task Force on U.S. Coast Guard Roles and Missions. [http://www.uscg.mil/history/21stcentury.pdf]

He had previously served as Director of Legislative Affairs and Deputy Counsel to Vice President Al Gore, for whom he had previously worked in the United States Senate.

Early in his career, Marshall clerked for United States District Judge Barrington D. Parker and then served as a Counsel with the Senate's Judiciary Committee; Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee; and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Personal life and civic involvement

Marshall is currently a senior advisor to AllAmerica Political action committee, a political organization set up by Senator Evan Bayh, who briefly sought the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. [http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/06/] He has been involved with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, serving on the board of the Foundation for seven years and promoting environmental science and other science education. He also volunteers at a local food bank and other community service outlets in the Washington, D.C. area.

Marshall is member of the following boards: United States Postal Service Board of Governors [http://www.usps.com] , Ford Foundation [http://www.fordfound.org] , Corrections Corporation of America [http://www.correctionscorp.com] , The Third Way [http://www.thethirdway.org] , National Women's Law Center [http://www.nwlc.org] , the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service [http://www.clintonschool.uasys.edu] , and the Supreme Court Historical Society [http://www.supremecourthistory.org] . He has been a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the United States Olympic Committee [http://www.usoc.org] since its inception in 2001 and chairs the Advisory Commission of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Election Law [http://www.abanet.org] .

Marshall earned a Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1978.

Of his father's legacy, Marshall has said "One, he was part of a group of people... who all came together at the right time to steer the country on the right course with regard to equality, especially in education," and "I also like to think of his legacy as one of encouraging lawyers of every color to contribute their skills to society." [ [http://www.sacbar.org/members/saclawyer/may_june04/marshall.html] ]

Marshall and his wife Teddi Marshall (Vice President and Founder of [http://www.rollinggreensinc.com Rolling Greens Inc.] were married on April 25, 2008. They were married at the Supreme Court of the United States and Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer performed the ceremony. The couple lives in the Washington, D.C. area with their teenage sons, Thurgood William and Edward Patrick.

References

* [http://www.bingham.com/Lawyer.aspx?LawyerID=752 Biography at Bingham website]