Stephen Rademaker

Stephen Geoffrey Rademaker joined Barbour Griffith and Rogers in January 2007 following a distinguished career in all three branches of government. He came to the firm from the staff of Senate majority Leader Bill Frist, where he served as Policy Director for National Security Affairs and Senior Counsel.

In 2002 he was confirmed by the Senate as an Assistant Secretary of State, and from then until 2006 he headed at various times three bureaus of the Department of State, including the Bureau of Arms Control and the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.

Immediately prior to joining the State Department, Stephen was Chief Counsel to the Select Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he had lead responsibility for drafting the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security.

For most of the previous decade, he held positions on the staff of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives, including Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel (2001-2002), Chief Counsel (1995-2001), and Minority Chief Counsel (1993-1995). From 1992 to 1993, Stephen served as General Counsel of the Peace Corps. He returned briefly to the agency in 2000-2001 as the Bush-Cheney Transition’s Director of Transition for the Peace Corps.

From 1989 to 1992, Rademaker held a joint appointment as Associate Counsel to the President in the Office of Counsel to the President and as Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council.

From 1987 to 1989, Stephen served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. From 1986 to 1987, he served as Counsel to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission. In 1986 he was a law clerk for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1984 to 1986, he was an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling.

Education

Rademaker attended the University of Virginia where he received a B.A. (1981) in Foreign Affairs, a J.D. (1984), and a M.A. in Foreign Affairs (1985). He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Student Council, and the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society during his time at the university.

Previous positions

Prior to his current position, he served in a variety of Chief Counsel positions within the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives beginning in 1993. He also served as General Counsel to the Peace Corps in the early 1990s. Under the first Bush administration, Rademaker served as legal adviser to the National Security Agency and as associate counsel to the President. During the late 1980s, he served in positions related to international trade and foreign affairs. Before these roles, he served as a law clerk to James L. Buckley, and as an associate in a private law firm in Washington, D.C..

Controversies

A report written by Siddharth Varadarajan and published in The Hindu [http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/16/stories/2007021605671200.htm] quoted Stephen G. Rademaker, as acknowledging that the United States had coerced India into voting against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency generated a controversy with the Cambridge-based Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) calling for an "international investigation into U.S. coercion of IAEA members. [http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/1753/print]

Though Mr. Rademaker has never disputed the accuracy of the remarks attributed to him, the U.S. Ambassador in Delhi, David C. Mulford, issued a press release stating that "Mr. Rademaker is not a U.S. official and the statements attributed to him are inaccurate." The Hindu, however, confirmed that the quotes attributed to Mr.Rademaker were "wholly accurate". [http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/17/stories/2007021709121400.htm]

External links

* [http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/leadership/bio_362.html White House Profile]
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/12813.htm State Department Biography]