Speaker Date: May 17, 2024

American Democracy and the Rule of Law in Peril

Michael Luttig, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals (ret.) for the Fourth Circuit, retired from the bench several years ago.

A well respected conservative jurist, he advised Vice President Mike Pence on and before January 6, 2021, as to the limitations on the role of the Vice President during the congressional session at which the slates of electors certified by the states were formally presented to Congress for counting at a joint session.

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Michael Luttig

Former US Court of Appeals Judge

BIOGRAPHY

Judge J. Michael Luttig served on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years, from 1991 to 2006, having been appointed by former President George H. W. Bush. Luttig is currently counselor and special advisor to the Coca-Cola Company and the board of directors of the Coca-Cola Company.

Luttig was executive vice president and general counsel of the Boeing Company from 2006 to 2020. Before that, he served as assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice and as counselor to the attorney general of the United States. Luttig was assistant counsel to the president at the White House from 1981 to 1982 under former President Ronald Reagan. From 1982 to 1983, he was a law clerk to then-Judge Antonin Scalia of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

From 1983 to 1985, he served as a law clerk and then special assistant to Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger. Luttig earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University and his law degree from the University of Virginia.

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