The Aerospace Corporation Announces Election of
Jeffrey Smith to Board of Trustees
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (Dec. 13, 2006) —Attorney Jeffrey H. Smith has been reelected to the The Aerospace Corporation’s board of trustees. Smith was elected Dec. 7 to a three-year term during the board’s quarterly meeting held at the company’s headquarters in El Segundo, Calif. He previously served on the board from 1990 to 1995 and from 1996 to 2005.
Smith is a senior partner with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold and Porter, where he is responsible for the firm’s government contracts and public policy practice group.
He has had extensive experience in public and private international law. He was assigned to the Pentagon in 1971, where he served as legal advisor to the deputy undersecretary of the Army and as the Pentagon's lawyer for the Panama Canal negotiations. He resigned from the Army in 1975, moving to the legal advisor's office in the Department of State. During his tenure at the State Department he rose to become the assistant legal advisor for Law Enforcement and Intelligence and was involved in arms control, international law enforcement, and intelligence activities.
He left the State Department in 1984 to become minority counsel to the Senate Armed Services Committee under Senator Sam Nunn, becoming general counsel of the committee when the Senate changed hands in 1986. He also served the committee as senior foreign policy staff member, as Senator Nunn's designee to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as the senator's designee to the Senate Iran/Contra Committee.
Smith left the Senate in 1988 to become a partner in Arnold and Porter. In 1992 President Clinton asked him to head the new administration’s transition team at the Department of Defense. He returned to Arnold and Porter in January 1993. In May 1995 he became general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served until October 1996, when he returned again to Arnold and Porter.
He has written and lectured extensively on national security matters and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves as general counsel of the Goldwater Foundation and on the boards of the Henry L. Stimson Center and the Education for Employment Foundation.
Smith earned a B.S. from the United States Military Academy in 1966 and, following two years in the U.S. Army infantry, a J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1971.
The Aerospace Corporation, with headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., is an independent, nonprofit company that provides objective technical analyses and assessments for national security space programs and selected civil and commercial space programs in the national interest.
Media Inquiries: Dave Jonta, 310-336-5041, david.l.jonta@aero.org
