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About Theodore Kassinger
- Theodore William Kassinger (born January 26, 1953) was the Deputy Secretary of the U.S.
- Department of Commerce from 2004 to 2005 and General Counsel to the U.S.
- Department of Commerce from 2001 to 2004 during the administration of George W.
- Bush.
- He is a native of Atlanta, Georgia.While serving as Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Kassinger managed a $6.5 billion annual budget, and 38,000 employees, and dealt with matters of international trade and international trade policy.
- He was also a keynote speaker at the 2005 "U.S.–China Trade: Opportunities and Challenges Conference".Kassinger grew up in Athens, Georgia, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia College of Environment & Design in 1974 and a law degree, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1978.Prior to his government service, Kassinger was a partner at Vinson & Elkins, a multinational law firm, based in Houston, Texas.
- He practised in the areas of international trade and business law and international dispute resolution.
- In 2009, he was reported to be an international trade attorney and partner in the Washington DC office of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP.In 2013, Kassinger was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v.
- Perry case.
- In 2015, Kassinger was named the Law360's International Trade MVP by helping to obtain crucial government clearance on massive technology deals for IBM Corp.
- and securing a landmark exception to the U.S.
- government's nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.
- Kassinger has been named a Top National Security Lawyer in DC by the Washingtonian Magazine annually, from 2011 to 2015.
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