David Jonas

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|education = Denison University (B.A.)
Wake Forest University (J.D.)
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David S. Jonas is a United States Marine, lawyer, government official, and a partner at Fluet, Huber & Hoang. In 2017, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to become general counsel at the United States Department of Energy. Jonas withdrew from consideration in January 2018.{{cite news|last1=Cama|first1=Timothy|title=Energy nominee who wrote controversial op-ed on gay troops withdraws|url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/367988-doe-nominee-who-wrote-controversial-op-ed-withdraws/|access-date=8 February 2018|work=The Hill|date=January 8, 2018}} He served for twenty years in the United States Marine Corps. During the administration of George W. Bush, Jonas was the Pentagon's nuclear nonproliferation planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff prior to being the general counsel of the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. He was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal for his work with the Joint Chiefs from 1997 to 2001.{{cite news|last1=Siciliano|first1=John|title=Trump looks to Marine to beef up Energy Department's legal muscle|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-looks-to-marine-to-beef-up-energy-departments-legal-muscle/article/2623984|access-date=7 June 2017|publisher=Washington Examiner|date=May 23, 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Wilkes|first1=Bryan|title=NNSA Names David Jonas General Counsel|url=https://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/nnsa-names-david-jonas-general-counsel|access-date=7 June 2017|publisher=National Nuclear Security Administration|date=November 26, 2005|archive-date=20 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170520224517/https://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/nnsa-names-david-jonas-general-counsel|url-status=dead}}

Background

Jonas is from Philadelphia. He received a B.A. degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio and his JD from Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He later attended the JAG School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he received his LLM degree.

Legal career

Jonas is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law and George Washington University Law School. He is on the board of directors of the Naval War College Foundation, the Young Marines, and the Marine Executive Association. He is a member of the American Bar Association Advisory Committee on Law and National Security and the Advisory Committee of the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law.{{cite news|title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/23/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-personnel-key|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523225844/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/23/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-personnel-key|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 23, 2017|access-date=7 June 2017|publisher=The White House|date=May 23, 2017}} While serving in the United States Marine Corps Judge Advocate Division, Jonas argued Davis v. United States before the United States Supreme Court, becoming the first judge advocate in the history of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court.{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsjonas |title=David Jonas |website=LinkedIn}}[https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/jonas-david-s.cfm# Biography at Georgetown Law]

Jonas was nominated by President Trump to become General Counsel at the Department of Energy on May 25, 2017. The nomination was reported favorably by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 19, 2017, but was never considered by the full Senate. It was returned unconfirmed to the president by the Senate on January 3, 2018, under Standing Rules of the United States Senate, Rule XXXI, paragraph 6.{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/115th-congress/517|title=PN517 — David S. Jonas — Department of Energy|date=January 3, 2018|website=U.S. Congress|access-date=11 January 2018}} Before his nomination could be resubmitted, Jonas announced that he was withdrawing from consideration.

References

External links

[https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/jonas-david-s.cfm# Biography at Georgetown Law]

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century American lawyers

Category:George W. Bush administration personnel

Category:Denison University alumni

Category:Wake Forest University School of Law alumni

Category:Georgetown University alumni

Category:Naval War College alumni

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Category:The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School alumni