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Presidential Citizens Medal Recipient Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr.
Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr.is the Chair of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, an international law firm of more than 900 lawyers with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Century City, Hong Kong, Irvine (California), London, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. Mr. Culvahouse has practiced law with O'Melveny & Myers from 1976 to 1984, and from 1989 to the present.
From March 1987 through January 1989, Mr. Culvahouse served as Counsel to the President of the United States. As White House Counsel, Mr. Culvahouse advised President Ronald Reagan on matters ranging from the Iran-Contra investigations, to the Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Anthony Kennedy, to the legal aspects of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty; and he chaired the inter-agency lawyers Committee on War Powers and the President's Committee on Federal Judicial Nominations. In January 1989, President Reagan awarded Mr. Culvahouse the Presidential Citizens' Medal, an award established in 1969 to "recognize citizens who performed exemplary deeds of service for the country or their fellow citizens."
From June 1973 until November 1976, Mr. Culvahouse was Chief Legislative Assistant and Counsel to United States Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. Concurrently upon designating Senator Baker as White House Chief of Staff in 1987, President Reagan appointed Mr. Culvahouse as Counsel to the President.
From 1989 until 1994, Mr. Culvahouse served as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He was a member of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Naval Academy from 1989 through 1991. From 1990 through 1992, he served as a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Nuclear Failsafe and Risk Reduction, appointed by the Secretary of Defense, to evaluate and recommend improvements in the United States' Nuclear Command and Control System. In December of 1992, Secretary of Defense Cheney awarded Mr. Culvahouse the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
In addition to serving as Chair of the Firm, Mr. Culvahouse has an active corporate governance, transactions, enforcement, internal investigations and compliance, and strategic counseling practice. He also represents individuals entering senior government service from the private sector in complying with public financial disclosure, conflicts-of-interest and related requirements.
Currently, Mr. Culvahouse is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution. He also is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Regulatory DataCorp, Int'l. LLC, an independent company formed by a group of leading financial institutions to assist clients in responding to such global security issues as money laundering, terrorist financing and organized crime, as well as complying with the USA Patriot Act.
Mr. Culvahouse received his J.D. in 1973 from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Survey of American Law. Mr. Culvahouse previously earned his B.S. from the University of Tennessee.
Mr. Culvahouse was born on July 4, 1948, and is a native of Ten Mile, Tennessee.
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Citizens Medal History
