Author: <a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/author/edwinmeeseiii/" target="_blank">Edwin Meese III</a>

Author: Edwin Meese III

Edwin Meese III was the Attorney General of the United States from 1985-88. Prior to that he served as Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County, California; professor of law at the University of San Diego; Governor Ronald Reagan’s Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff; Chief of Staff and Senior Issues Advisor for the Reagan-Bush Committee during the 1980 presidential campaign; head of President-elect Reagan’s transition team following the November 1980 election; and Counsellor to the President from 1981-85. He holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of United States Studies. A 1953 graduate of Yale University, Mr. Meese holds a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, is a retired Colonel in the United States Army Reserve and is the author of With Reagan: The Inside Story (Regnery Gateway, 1992).

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