Paul M. Lewis
Director
Office of Legislative Counsel

Paul M. Lewis was appointed Director, Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC), Office of General Counsel, Department of Defense, on June 22, 2008. He previously served as Deputy Director and then Principal Deputy Director of OLC.

Prior to joining the Office of General Counsel, Mr. Lewis was the counsel to the Chairman of the House Ethics Committee and a senior counsel for the House Armed Services Committee. While with the Ethics Committee he served as the lead counsel when the House of Representatives expelled Representative James Traficant in 2002.

Mr. Lewis received his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Notre Dame in 1980. After his graduation from Notre Dame Law School in 1983, he served as a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps, an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan DA’s office and as a trial attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Department of Justice. He is admitted to the bars of New York, New Jersey and other federal jurisdictions.

Mr. Lewis is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he currently teaches an introduction to Ethics course. He also regularly lectures on ethics and congressional investigations at Georgetown Law School and George Washington University Law School.