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Thomas A. Barthold is the chief of staff with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. He joined the Joint Committee staff as a staff economist in 1987. He subsequently has served as senior economist, deputy chief of staff, and acting chief of staff. He was named chief of staff in May 2009. Over the past two decades he has worked on a wide variety of issues for the committee, including capital gains taxation, savings incentives, environmental and energy taxes, estate and gift taxation, the taxation of multinational enterprises, the low-income housing tax credit, tax-exempt bonds, and charitable organizations. Prior to his arrival in Washington he was a member of the economics faculty of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. His publications include studies of capital gain realizations, charitable bequests, and measuring the distribution of the tax burden. Mr. Barthold is a graduate of Northwestern University and received his doctorate in economics from Harvard University.
Shalom Brilliant is a Senior Trial Counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He received a B.A. degree in history from Yeshiva University in 1969, an M.A. in modern European history from New York University in 1971, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1975. He joined the Civil Division under the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1975. He returned to New York in 1977, and worked as an associate at Schoengold & Sporn, a small firm that specialized in stockholder class actions and derivative suits. In 1978, Mr. Brilliant returned to the Civil Division’s Federal Programs Branch. In 1989 Mr. Brilliant joined the Commercial Litigation Branch, National Courts Section where he has defended the United States in multi-plaintiff civilian pay cases, as well as litigation involving government contracts and a variety of other matters, before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and other courts.
Judge Eric G. Bruggink was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on April 15, 1986, and entered duty on April 21, 1986. He is a cum laude graduate of Auburn University, receiving his B.A. degree in sociology in 1971 and an M.A. degree in speech in 1972. Judge Bruggink received his J.D. in 1975 from the University of Alabama School of Law, where he was a Hugo Black Scholar and Note and Comments Editor of the Alabama Law Review. In 1982, Judge Bruggink was appointed Director, Office of Appeals Counsel of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, and he served in that position until his appointment as Judge of the Court of Federal Claims. He formerly served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Frank H. McFadden of the Northern District of Alabama, and as an associate with the law firms of Steiner, Crum & Baker in Montgomery, Alabama, 1979-1982, and Hardwick, Hause & Segrest in Dothan, Alabama, 1976-1977. He was Assistant Director of the Alabama Law Institute from 1977 to 1979, during which time he established the Office of Energy and Environmental Law and served as its first director. 
Jeanne E. Davidson has been an attorney in the National Courts Section at the U.S. Department of Justice for most of the last 14 years. After joining the National Courts Section in 1987 as a trial attorney and litigating for three years, she assumed the first of many management positions in the Section, culminating with her being named the Director of the National Courts Section in 2007. As Director, Ms. Davidson supervises approximately 200 attorneys and support staff responsible for representing the United States in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the Court of International Trade, and other fora. She personally represents the United States in significant matters raising constitutional or other issues of particular importance, and provides legal advice and litigation risk counseling to numerous Executive Branch offices. Among other honors, she currently serves on the Department of Justice Intellectual Property Task Force and the Civil Division’s Administrative Procedures Act Working Group, and she is a member of the Advisory Councils to both the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ms. Davidson was also Associate General Counsel and Chair of the Section 301 Committee in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 1992-1993, and an associate at DC’s Steptoe & Johnson from 1981-1986. Ms. Davidson received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1980, and her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976.
Brad Fagg is a partner in the firm of Morgan Lewis in Washington, DC. He is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice and a member of the Washington, DC Office Management Committee. Mr. Fagg has extensive civil trial and appellate experience, including all phases of pre-trial discovery, motions practice and briefing, hearings and trials, and briefing and arguing appeals. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Fagg spent a number of years as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he handled civil fraud matters, procurement disputes, takings claims and employment appeals. His trial work included construction and other commercial government contract disputes, multimillion dollar government contract claims, and civil fraud investigations. At the appellate level, Mr. Fagg briefed and argued a number of matters before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and other courts of appeal. In addition to other honors, Mr. Fagg served as the President of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association in 2008, and he is a member of the Court of Federal Claims Advisory Council. 
Eugene R. Fidell is the Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He is a co-founder and former president of the National Institute of Military Justice and of counsel at Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, Washington, D.C. He is a co-author of Military Justice: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis), a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Life Member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the board of directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. He has also taught at Harvard Law School and the Washington College of Law, American University. 
Daniel I. Gordon is the Associate Dean for Government Procurement Law Studies at The George Washington University Law School. Before joining GW Law School in January 2012, Dean Gordon was the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, a position to which he was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate. Before that, he worked for 17 years in the Office of General Counsel of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he began as a line attorney, rising through the ranks and ultimately holding the positions of Deputy General Counsel and then Acting General Counsel. Among his other work at GAO, he headed the bid protest unit for a number of years, and served as counsel to the congressionally-chartered Commercial Activities Panel, which looked into questions regarding the use of contractors and federal employees to provide commercial-type services. Before joining GAO, he served as a court law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then practiced for a number of years with a private law firm in Washington, DC. Dean Gordon has frequently testified on acquisition issues before Congress, and he has published law review articles and book chapters on various aspects of procurement law and policy.
Emily C. Hewitt was commissioned as a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims by President William J. Clinton on October 22, 1998. President Barack Obama designated her to serve as Chief Judge on March 11, 2009. In 2006, she was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve on the Financial Disclosure Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Prior to joining the court, Chief Judge Hewitt served as General Counsel of the United States General Services Administration (GSA) from 1993 to 1998. As GSA’s General Counsel, she oversaw the legal activities and responsibilities of the agency, served as GSA’s chief ethics official, as chief legal advisor to the Administrator and other GSA officials, and as a member of GSA’s management committee. While at GSA, Chief Judge Hewitt served as a government member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a member of the President’s Interagency Council on Women. Before entering government service in 1993, Chief Judge Hewitt practiced from 1978 to 1993 with the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow. She was elected a partner in 1985, and served as chair of Hill & Barlow’s real estate department from 1987 to 1993. Chief Judge Hewitt graduated from Harvard Law School, with honors, in 1978, after receiving the M. Phil. degree in studies focusing on religion and education from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City and receiving her A.B. from Cornell University. 
Edgar James is a lawyer with the Washington, DC, labor and employment law firm of James & Hoffman, P.C. He graduated from Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Public Health in 1979. He has represented FLSA plaintiffs in the United States Court of Federal Claims since 1991, and his firm has an active practice representing federal and private sector workers with FLSA and related claims. 
Judge Lettow was appointed a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on July 14, 2003, and entered on duty on July 22, 2003. He previously spent more than 30 years as a litigator with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, first as an associate from 1973-1976, and then as a partner from 1976-2003. During that time, he argued three cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and more than 40 cases in the federal courts of appeals, and handled numerous cases in federal trial courts. Prior to joining Cleary, Gottlieb, Judge Lettow served as Counsel, Council on the Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President, from 1970 to 1973. He was a law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Supreme Court of the United States, during 1969-1970, and was a law clerk to Judge Ben C. Duniway, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, during 1968-1969. Judge Lettow received an LL.B. degree from Stanford University in 1968, where he was Note Editor of the Stanford Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. He also received a B.S.Ch.E. from Iowa State University in 1962, and a M.A. in history from Brown University in 2001. From 1963 to 1965, Judge Lettow served in the U.S. Army with the Third Infantry Division. Judge Lettow is married and resides in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. He and his wife have four children. 
Karen L. Manos is a partner resident in Gibson Dunn's Washington, DC office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Government and Commercial Contracts Practice Group. Ms. Manos graduated in the top two percent of her class at the U.S. Air Force Academy (B.S., distinguished graduate, 1981), and graduated first in her class from the Duke University School of Law (J.D., with highest honors, 1986), where she was a Note Editor for the Duke Law Journal. Ms. Manos has more than twenty-five years experience on a broad range of government contracts issues, including civil and criminal fraud investigations and litigation, complex claims preparation and litigation, bid protests, qui tam suits under the False Claims Act, defective pricing, cost allowability, the Cost Accounting Standards, and corporate compliance programs. Ms. Manos enjoys a nationwide reputation for her expertise in government contract costs and pricing. In 2004, Legal Times named Ms. Manos one of the top 12 government contracts lawyers in the Washington, DC area. In 2009, she was named as a Top Lawyer for government contracts in Washingtonian Magazine. In 2010, Ms. Manos was selected as one of 10 Washington, DC Super Lawyers in government contracts. Additionally, each year since 2006, Ms. Manos has been selected as one of the leading Government Contracts lawyers in the nation by Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers, and one of only three lawyers "spotlighted" in the category, Government Contracts: Cost Disputes. Ms. Manos is the author of a three-volume book, Government Contract Costs & Pricing (Thomson-West 2d ed. 2009), which is widely regarded as the definitive text in the area. In addition, Ms. Manos has authored more than forty articles on government contract law. Ms. Manos is a past Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Public Contract Law and the National Defense Industrial Association Procurement Division, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of both the Public Contract Law Journal and the Government Contract Cost, Pricing & Accounting Report. 
Scott M. McCaleb is a Partner in the DC office of Wiley Rein LLP. Mr. McCaleb represents clients on all aspects of federal, state and local procurement matters, including bid protests, contract disputes and termination litigation, appellate litigation, audits and cost allowability issues, government investigations, suspension and debarment matters, False Claims Act actions, mergers and acquisitions, teaming agreements and subcontracts and small business matters. His experience extends across virtually all government contracting industries, including aerospace and weapon systems integration, information technology and network solutions and architect-engineering and construction matters. Mr. McCaleb has repeatedly been named among “America’s Leading Business Lawyers” in Government Contracts by Chambers USA. He served as an Adjunct Professor for Government Contracts at the George Mason University School of Law from 1996 to 2002 and at The George Washington University School of Law from 2003-2005. He also taught at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School from 1995 to 2000. Mr. McCaleb currently serves as a member of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Advisory Council. 
Kathleen M. O’Malley was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 2010. Prior to her elevation to the Federal Circuit, Judge O’Malley was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by President William J. Clinton on October 12, 1994. Judge O’Malley served as First Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff for Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher from 1992-1994, and Chief Counsel to Attorney General Fisher from 1991-1992. From 1985-1991, she worked for Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, where she became a partner. From 1983-1984, she was an associate at Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue. During her sixteen years on the district court bench, Judge O’Malley presided over in excess of 100 patent and trademark cases and sat by designation on the United States Circuit Court for the Federal Circuit. As an educator, Judge O’Malley has regularly taught a course on Patent Litigation at Case Western Reserve University Law School; she is a member of the faculty of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s program designed to educate Federal Judges regarding the handling of intellectual property cases. Judge O’Malley began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1982-1983. She received her J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Order of the Coif, in 1982, where she served on Law Review and was a member of the National Mock Trial Team. Judge O’Malley attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1979. 
Thomas C. Papson, a partner in the DC office of McKenna Long & Aldridge, is an experienced litigator and bid protest lawyer, focusing on business litigation relating to government contracts. His practice includes conflict of interest and ethics matters, contract disputes, trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition claims, Administrative Procedure Act and Freedom of Information matters, contract and tort claims against the United States, and protests of both state and federal government contract awards. Chambers USA 2012 recognized Mr. Papson as one of the nation's leading government contracts and protest lawyers. A past chair of the Bid Protest Committee of the ABA Public Contract Law Section, Mr. Papson has prosecuted and defended major bid protest cases involving telecommunications, information technology, healthcare, and aerospace/defense procurements in the federal courts and before the Government Accountability Office. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Papson was a law clerk to Judge John J. Sirica in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. 
S. Jay Plager was appointed Circuit Judge by President George H. W. Bush in 1989. Prior to his appointment, Judge Plager served in the Executive Office of the President from 1987 to 1989, as Associate Director of OMB and as Administrator, OIRA. He served as Counselor to the Under Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services from 1986 to 1987. Judge Plager was Dean and Professor, Indiana University School of Law from 1977 to 1984. He was Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Illinois from 1964 to 1977, and from 1958 to 1964 was Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Florida. Judge Plager was Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Law School from 1984 to 1985, Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, and Visiting Professor, Cambridge University in 1980, and Visiting Research Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin from 1967 to 1968. Judge Plager served on active duty in the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict. Judge Plager grew up in New Jersey, where he attended public schools. In 1952, he received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina, a J.D. in 1958 from the University of Florida, with high honors, where he was editor-in-chief of the Florida Law Review, and in 1961 an LL.M. from Columbia University. He has three children. Judge Plager assumed senior status in 2000. 
Nicole Reuling is a partner in the DC office of Mayer Brown. Ms. Reuling focuses her practice on federal tax controversy and litigation matters. Ms. Reuling has represented clients in all stages of IRS administrative practice and Federal Court litigation. Legal 500 described Ms. Reuling as “an accomplished courtroom performer” and International Tax Review 2010 recognized her as a “leading tax controversy advisor.” Prior to joining Mayer Brown, she practiced as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice, Tax Division, where she was awarded two Special Commendations for her service. She is an active member and former Chair of the Federal Bar Association, Tax Section. 
Jimmie V. Reyna was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 2011. Prior to his appointment, Judge Reyna was an international trade attorney and shareholder at Williams Mullen, where, from 1998 to 2011, he directed the firm's Trade and Customs Practice Group and its Latin America Task Force, and served on its board of directors (2006-08, 2009-11). He was an associate and partner at the law firm of Stewart and Stewart (1986-98). From 1981 to 1986, Judge Reyna was a solo practitioner in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, prior to that, an associate at Shaffer, Butt, Thornton & Baehr, also in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Judge Reyna served on the U.S. roster of dispute settlement panelists for trade dis¬putes under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the U.S. Indicative List of Non-Governmental Panelists for the World Trade Organization, Dispute Settlement Mechanism, for both trade in goods and trade in services.
Kristine Tardiff is a Senior Trial Attorney with the Natural Resources Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice. In this position, Ms. Tardiff represents the United States in Fifth Amendment takings litigation and certain public land law matters. Ms. Tardiff received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to joining the Department of Justice in 1995 through the Attorney General’s Honors Program, Ms. Tardiff served for two years as a law clerk to the late Honorable Shane Devine, Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.
Judge Wheeler was appointed to the United States Court of Federal Claims on October 24, 2005. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from Georgetown University Law School in 1973, and his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1970. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and of the American Bar Association's Public Contracts and Litigation Sections. From 1973 to 2005, Judge Wheeler was in private practice in Washington, D.C. He was an associate and partner in the law firm of Pettit & Martin until 1995, and then moved as a partner to the law firm of Piper & Marbury. Through mergers with other firms, Piper & Marbury became known as Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, and later as DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. During his years in private practice, Judge Wheeler specialized in Government Contract claims, litigation, and counseling, representing a wide variety of large and small business clients. He appeared before many agency boards of contract appeals, the United States Court of Federal Claims and its predecessors, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a number of United States District Courts, and the Government Accountability Office (formerly the General Accounting Office).
Lewis Wiener heads Sutherland’s Financial Services Litigation Group. As a corporate defense attorney with 25 years of trial and advocacy experience, he has represented clients in the financial services industry in dozens of complex class action lawsuits in state and federal courts throughout the United States. A former trial lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Wiener served as lead government counsel in the largest class action ever filed against the United States with alleged damages in excess of $4 billion. In addition to his trial experience, he has extensive experience in arbitrations before AAA, JAMS and various international arbitration tribunals. Additionally, Mr. Wiener has served for over 15 years as an officer to the Court of Federal Claims Bar Association and as a member of the Court’s Advisory Council. 
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