Andrew M. Wright is Counsel to the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mr. Wright began his legal career as Assistant Counsel to Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. in the White House, where he served as an attorney on the White House Investigations Team and sat on the White House Immigration and Tort Reform Policy Working Groups. In 2001, Mr. Wright served as Counsel to the Former Vice President, representing the Gore Transition Office in legal matters related to winding up the affairs of the Vice Presidency. Prior to joining the Subcommittee staff, Mr. Wright practiced civil litigation and criminal defense law in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in its government enforcement litigation section and in the Morgantown, West Virginia office of Jackson Kelly PLLC in its white collar crime and litigation groups. Mr. Wright is admitted to practice in the state courts of West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. In federal practice, Mr. Wright is admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as well as the United States District Courts for the District of Columbia, the Northern District of West Virginia, and the Southern District of West Virginia. Mr. Wright served on the adjunct faculty of the West Virginia University ("WVU") College of Law from 2004 until 2006, where he taught courses in Presidential Powers and Federal Criminal Law. He was named "Adjunct Professor of the Year" in 2005.

Prior to obtaining his law degree, Mr. Wright held a number of political jobs, including stints in the White House Office of National Service, the Office of Chief of Staff to the Vice President, Clinton/Gore 1996 Primary Committee, Inc., Gore 2000 Primary Committee, Inc., the 1996 Oregon Democratic Coordinated Campaign, the Office of Oregon State Senator Susan Castillo, the Office of Oregon State Representative Barbara Ross, and Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Task Force. During his career, he has traveled on diplomatic missions or official delegations to Afghanistan, Bahrain, Botswana, Chad, England, Haiti, Ireland, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, South Africa, and Spain.

Mr. Wright graduated magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University in 1995 with a B.A. in politics. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2000, where he was elected President of the Virginia Law Democrats and served on the editorial board of the *Journal of Law & Politics*. Mr. Wright is a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies.

Mr. Wright grew up in Corvallis, Oregon. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Morgantown, W.V. with his wife, Caprice Roberts, who just completed a term as a Visiting Professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law and regularly serves as a Professor at WVU College of Law.