Emmet Flood | |
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| White House Counsel | |
| Acting October 17, 2018 – December 10, 2018 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Don McGahn |
| Succeeded by | Pat Cipollone |
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| Born | Emmet Thomas Flood IV 1956 (age 69–70) |
| Party | Republican[1] |
| Education | University of Dallas (BA) University of Texas at Austin (MA,PhD) Yale University (JD) |
Emmet Thomas Flood IV is an Americanattorney who served as the interimWhite House counsel toU.S. PresidentDonald Trump from October 17, 2018, to December 10, 2018, following the resignation ofDon McGahn.[2] He also served as aspecial counsel during theGeorge W. Bush administration.
Flood attendedFenwick High School inOak Park, Illinois, graduating in 1974.[3][4][5]
Flood obtained aBachelor of Arts from theUniversity of Dallas in 1978. He received aMaster of Arts and aDoctor of Philosophy from theUniversity of Texas at Austin in 1981 and 1986, respectively. His doctoral thesis was entitledPhilosophy and narrative form.[6] He went on to earn aJuris Doctor fromYale Law School in 1991.[7][8]
He was anAndrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow atWesleyan University from 1987 to 1988, where he delivered acolloquium entitled: "Some Uses of Narrative in the History of Philosophy: Synoptic Judgment and Philosophical Plot".[9]
Flood was a law clerk for JudgeRalph K. Winter of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and forAssociate JusticeAntonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.[10][11]
Flood advised PresidentBill Clinton during hisimpeachment process.[12] Flood's law firm also representedHillary Clinton on matters relating to theClinton email controversy.[12]
Flood representedDick Cheney in response toWilson v. Cheney, a civil lawsuit filed byValerie Plame for his alleged role in thePlame affair.[8][13]
Flood advised Virginia governorBob McDonnell on his response to thecorruption investigation into his activities.[14][15] Flood was retained byCameron International to defend them after theDeepwater Horizon oil spill.[16][17]
In 2017, Flood was offered a job in theTrump administration, though he declined.[12] In March, 2018, Flood met with PresidentDonald Trump in theOval Office to discuss the White House's response to theSpecial Counsel investigation.[18]
On May 2, 2018, it was reported that Flood would be replacingTy Cobb as the White House attorney dealing with the investigation ofPresident Donald Trump bySpecial Counsel Robert Mueller.[19]
On October 18, 2018, Flood was appointed assistant to the president and counsel to the president, replacing Don McGahn, to temporarily hold the position until the hiring of Pat Cipollone is complete.[20] He demitted office on December 10, 2018.
He is a partner atWilliams & Connolly.[8][21] He wrote a response in late April 2019 to Attorney GeneralWilliam Barr concerning theMueller Report.[22]
He served on the advisory council of the Catholic Charities Legal Network.[23]
The White House announced Tuesday that Flood will replace Ty Cobb in the White House Counsel's Office, serving as a point person for the White House's response to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Kelly R. Welsh '70, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Emmet T. Flood '74, an attorney in Washington D.C., and former deputy and assistant special counsel to the President, were inducted into Fenwick's Hall of Fame.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmet T. Flood IV '74
Flood graduated magna cum laude in 1978 from the University of Dallas with a bachelor of arts, according to the bio. He went on to get a Master of Arts and a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and to pursue postdoctoral studies in humanities at Wesleyan University in the 1980s. In 1991, Flood got his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Wesleyan University Center for Humanities. Emmet Flood, Mellon Fellow: Some Uses of Narrative in the History of Philosophy: Synoptic Judgment and Philosophical Plot. Russell House. Apr. 18, 1988. Colloquium. Center Colloquium Room. Apr. 26, 1988.
Emmet Flood, a Republican who served on former President Clinton's legal team during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, left his Washington law firm last summer to represent Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak case. More recently, Flood has resisted Congress' efforts to obtain White House e-mails that were sent through the Republican Party's e-mail system. He previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
The President has named Emmet Flood to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Special Counsel to the President. Mr. Flood recently was a Partner at Williams & Connolly, LLP. Prior to this, he served as a Law Clerk to Associate JusticeAntonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Earlier in his career, he served as Law Clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Flood received his bachelor's degree from the University of Dallas and his JD from Yale Law School. He received his master's degree and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
Flood, now an attorney with Williams & Connolly, defended former Vice President Dick Cheney in a civil suit from former CIA officer Valerie Plame.
High-powered Washington lawyer Emmet T. Flood was in Richmond at the Executive Mansion Tuesday to speak with McDonnell, administration officials and others as the governor attempts to navigate the legal and political waters that have engulfed the last year of his term and threaten to swamp his legacy.
Smaller players also have shored up their defenses: Cameron International, the Houston firm that built Deepwater Horizon's failed blowout preventer, has retained Emmet T. Flood of Williams & Connolly, a former White House special counsel during the Bush administration who represented Cheney in the CIA leak case.
Emmet Flood has been appointed Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President, effective this morning," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. "Mr. Flood will serve in the role until Pat Cipollone comes on board as Counsel to the President, at which time Mr. Flood will return to being Special Counsel to the President.
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