David Addington

David S. Addington ( born January 22, 1957 in Washington, DC) is an American lawyer and former government official. It was the end of October 2005 for the Chief of Staff of then Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, appointed as successor to Lewis Libby. He held until the end of Cheney's tenure in January 2009, a post; his successor was Ron Klain.

Life

Addington graduated in 1974 Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Thereafter he attended from fall of the same year, the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, but he did not graduate. He graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University ( summa cum laude) and graduated from Duke University School of Law from the Juris Doctor. As a lawyer, he was admitted in 1981.

Addington worked from 1981 to 1984 as Assistant General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency. 1984 to 1987 he was a consultant for various committees on foreign policy and the Senate committee to investigate the Iran- Contra scandal. In 1987 he assisted Ronald Reagan in legislative matters. From 1989 to 1992 Addington served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Cheney, before he was appointed in 1992 by President George Bush to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense. 1993 and 1994, Addington was staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee. After that, he worked for six years from 1995 to 2001 as an attorney in private practice for several law firms and the American Trucking Association.