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COVINCTON 6, BURLING
CHARLES F.C. RUFF
Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
Partner, 1999-2000
Other Experience:
Counsel to the President, 1997-1 999
Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, 1995- 1 997
Partner. Covington & Burling, 1962-1995
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1979-1982
Acting Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1979
Associate Deputy Attorney General, US. Department of Justice, 1978-1 979
Deputy Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
1977-1978
SpeciaI Prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1975- 1 977
Chief Inspector, Dmg Enforcement Administration, 1975
Assistant Special Prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973- I975
Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1973- 1979
Professor, Aritioch Law School, 1972- 1 973
Chief Management and Labor Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, 1970- 1972
Trial Attorney, Organized Crime & Racketeering Section, Criminal Division, U.S.
Department of Justice, 1967-1 970
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COVINGTON 61 BURLING
Instructor in Legal Method, U. of Pennsylvania Law School, 1966.1967
Rescarch Associate, African Law Center, Columbia Law School, 1966
Instructor, Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, University of Liberia, 1963- I965
Education:
Swarthmore CoIlege, AB., 1960; L.L.D. (Honorary), 1997
Columbia Law School, L.L.B., 1963
Georgetown University, L.L.D. (Honorary), 1996
Bar Admissions:
New York – 1963
U.S. Supreme Court – I969
U.S. District Court For the District of Columbia – 1973
District of* Columbia Court of Appeals – 1973
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland – 1990
Professional Activities:
Chair, Advisory Board on the lnvestigative Capability of the Department of
Defense, 1994
Chair, Multinational Panel to Inquire into the Curbing of Violence in the South
African Elections, 1993
District of Columbia Bar
President, 1989- 1 990
President-EIect, 1 988- 1989
Board of Governors, 1983-1986; 1988-1991
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
US. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Gender Bias Task Force, 1990- 1 992
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Gender Bias Task Force, 1990- 1992
U.S. Sentencing Commission, Advisory Committee on Alternatives to
Imprisonment, 1989- 199 1
COVINGTON d BURLING
National College of District Attorneys
Vice Chairman, Board of Regents, 1985-1991
Publications:
“Welfare and Pension Plans: The Role of the Federal Prosecutor.” 12 Smta Clara
Lawyer 480 (1 972)
“Fcdernl Prosecution of Local Corruption: A Case Study in the Making of Law
Enforcement Policy,” 65 Georgetown Law Journal 1171 (1977)
Book Review, “(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About Criminal Procedure,”
83 Michigan Law Review 1 19 1 (1 985)
Terrorism: Legal Aspects of Corporate Responsibility,” in B-Jenkins, Ten.-orism and
Personal Protection ) (Butterworth 1985)
Towards Violcnce-Free Elections in South Africa, the Report of the Multinational Panel
of Inquiry (Humhn Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, S.A., 1993)
Born: August 1, 1939, Cleveland, Ohio