Bud Krogh

Senior Fellow on Leadership, Ethics, and Integrity

<p>Mr. Krogh currently serves as a Senior Fellow on Leadership, Ethics, and Integrity at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. Bud’s career includes a tour with the Navy during the Vietnam War followed by graduation from law school at the University of Washington. He was appointed Assistant to the Counsel to the President at the beginning of Richard Nixon's first term, and his responsibilities included governmental affairs for the District of Columbia, work with the early Special Investigations Unit, law enforcement, narcotics control policy, and transportation policy. </p> <p>As co-director of the White House "Plumbers," Mr. Krogh approved a covert operation as part of a national security investigation into the leak of the Top Secret Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. He later pleaded guilty to conspiracy and served four and a half months in prison.</p> <p>During the five years between disbarment from law practice in 1975 and reinstatement to the bar in 1980, Bud taught Ethics, Public Policy Analysis, and Administrative Law at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. After reinstatement, he focused his law practice on mediation and resolving energy policy issues in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, which led to his participation in an international Earth Day peace climb of Mount Everest in 1990.</p> <p>With the Center, Mr. Krogh continues to develop and promote new methods of encouraging integrity-based decision-making among business leaders, public servants, lawyers, and America’s youth. </p>