Rufus A. Fulton Jr. and John E. McLaughlin
Join Board of Trustees
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (6/15/06) — Retired banking executive Rufus A. Fulton Jr. and former Central Intelligence Agency official John E. McLaughlin have been elected to The Aerospace Corporation’s board of trustees. They were elected June 8 to three-year terms during the board’s quarterly meeting held at the company’s headquarters in El Segundo, Calif.
Fulton retired as chairman and chief executive officer of Fulton Financial Corporation, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in December 2005. He had directed operations at the institution since 1987, overseeing significant growth that resulted in a ten-fold increase in the organization’s assets, to $14 billion, and a reputation as one of the premier community banking organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region.
In 1999 he was asked to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Federal Advisory Council. He also served on the boards of the American Bankers Association, American Bankers Council, Bankers Roundtable, Lancaster County Bankers Association, and other banking and financial association boards and advisory bodies.
Fulton also has been heavily involved in community service, especially helping disadvantaged children, most recently through a newly established family foundation. He has held director posts with the Boys’ Club and Girls’ Club of Lancaster, Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster Alliance, Boys’ Club of Lancaster Foundation, Harrisburg Area Community College Foundation, and the Salvation Army. He also has been active in the Newcomen Society of the United States and the Boy Scouts of America, among other organizations.
McLaughlin is a senior fellow in the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
His service with the CIA spanned three decades. Early in his career, he focused on European, Russian, and Eurasian issues in the Directorate of Intelligence. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he served as director of the Office of European Analysis and director of the Office of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis.
McLaughlin rose to the positions of vice chairman for estimates, acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council, deputy director for intelligence, and deputy director of the agency, before becoming acting director in 2004 following the resignation of George J. Tenet.
He has received the Distinguished Intelligence Community Service Award and the National Security Medal. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a national security advisor to the Cable News Network, or CNN.
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.
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