Paul McNulty
1980 alumnus and U.S. Attorney

Paul McNulty, a 1980 graduate of Grove City College and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, known as the 'Rocket Docket' court, previously served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1999 to 2001, he was Chief Counsel and Director of Legislative Operations in the Office of Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. At the close of 2000, McNulty was also appointed as the Justice Department chief transition leader under the Bush administration.

Most recently, McNulty has had a leading role on the prosecution end of many high-profile cases, including American Taliban member John Walker Lindh; Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person to face criminal charges in the Sept. 11 attacks; and convicted spy Robert Hanssen.

From 1995 to 1999, he served with the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, first as Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Crime and then as Director of Communications and Chief Counsel to the Committee. As Director of Communications, he directed house Republican media relations for the Clinton impeachment process. McNulty was Counsel to Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge from 1993 to 1995, and he served with the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1993 as Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Development and then as Director and Chief Spokesman for the Office of Policy and Communications.

He was Minority Counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime from 1987 to 1990, and from 1985 to 1987 he was Director of Legal Services at the Legal Services Corporation. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. He is a 1983 graduate of Capital University School of Law.

McNulty has more than 17 years of government experience. He served as chief counsel to the House Subcommittee on Crime during the time the subcommittee was conducting hearings on the federal raid at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. He was chief counsel to House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX). McNulty also has worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as chief spokesman under President George H.W. Bush. He headed the current President Bush's transition team and prepared Senator John Ashcroft for his Senate confirmation hearings as nominee for Attorney General.

McNulty, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Jan. 31, 1958, grew up in Whitehall, Pa., and graduated from Baldwin High School in 1976.

He resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, the former Brenda Millican, also a 1980 Grove City College graduate, and their four children, Katy, Annie, Joe and Corrie.