Geoff Shepard
American lawyer, author and lecturer (born 1944)
Geoffrey Carroll Shepard (born November 7, 1944) is an American lawyer, author, and lecturer.
Early life
Geoff Shepard was born in Santa Barbara, California and grew up in Southern California. His graduating class from the Irvine Elementary School in 1958 consisted of only thirty-two students. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach in 1962. He went on to Whittier College and was a member of the debate team, student body president and recipient of the Richard Nixon scholarship – which was awarded by Nixon himself at a luncheon in 1965 and had been partially funded by Nixon.
Shepard received his JD from Harvard Law School, with honors, in 1969, where he was ranked in the top fifth of his class.
Nixon administration
Upon graduation, Shepard was selected as a 1969–1970 White House Fellow, one of fifteen young Americans chosen to spend that year serving in the Executive Branch. He worked at the Treasury Department, as Special Assistant to the Secretary.
In September 1970, Shepard was hired by John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, onto his Domestic Council staff. That staff, the counterpart to the National Security Council staff under Henry Kissinger, worked with the President on domestic issues of national importance.
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