ROBERT M. MCNAMARA, JR. - BIO

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005459066
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2009
• Case Number: F-2009-01648
• Publication Date: June 30, 2004

Robert M. McNamara, Jr.
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Robert M. McNamara, Jr. was appointed General Counsel for the
Central Intelligence Agency on 13 November 1997.
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He previously served as the Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement
at the Treasury Department and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at
Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught Trial Practice for over
ten years.
Mr. McNamara has served as Deputy Director of Enforcement at the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, General Counsel of the Peace Corps,
Legislative Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee,
Assistant United States Attorney and Assistant Majority Counsel of the
United States Senate Watergate Committee.
In 1967, he received his B.A. from Mount Carmel College. Mr.
McNamara received his A.B. from John Carroll University in 1968 and his J.D.
from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973, where he was Symposium
Editor of the American Criminal Law Review.
After graduation, Mr. McNamara was a law clerk on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to the Honorable George C. Edwards, Jr., in
Cincinnati.
APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 06-Nov-2009
 Robert M. McNamara, Jr. is a native of Ohio.
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