Edward Whelan is president of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center. He has worked in all three three branches of the federal
government, which has given him significant experience with questions of constitutional
law and the role of the courts. Whelan served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia (1991-92) and Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit (1985-86). From 2001 to 2004 he was the principal deputy assistant
attorney general for the office of legal counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice.
From 1992 to 1995 he was a senior lawyer on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee
on the Judiciary. Whelan received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School
in 1985 and was a member of the board of editors of the Harvard Law Review.
