GEORGE E. PRUDEN, II (Alternate)

George E. Pruden, II, serves as a Senior Counsel for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) where he provides legal advice to several program offices. He also serves as the legal advisor to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer, as OJP’s Senior Component Official for Privacy and is the FOIA Public Liaison. In addition, he serves as an ethics attorney and he handles discrimination litigation. Prior to his current position, he served as the General Counsel for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) for the District of Columbia, a relatively new federal agency for six years.

Attorney Pruden has over 29 years of experience in the federal government, including 20 years in the ethics field. He has served as the lead ethics official in three different federal agencies. He has been intimately involved in the development and delivery of legal ethics and government ethics training programs for the District of Columbia Bar, the Virginia Law Foundation, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, National Bar Association, American Bar Association, League of United Latin American Citizens, National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, Women in Federal Law Enforcement, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, National Academy of Corrections, DOJ's National Advocacy Center and many other organizations. He has participated in the development of and has appeared in a number of ethics training videos. In the mid-1990’s, he developed an ethics game (based on the “Jeopardy” game show format) that was used to train the Attorney General, other senior DOJ officials, senior White House staff and thousands of other federal employees.

He served in the White House Counsel's Office handling the review of financial disclosure reports and other documents for nominees to various federal agencies, boards and commissions. Some of his other professional experiences include having served as a Professorial Lecturer in Ethics at the Washington College of Law at The American University and as an Instructor of Political Science at Norfolk State University.

Attorney Pruden has received many awards and honors during his career including the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Commendation Medal for the Outstanding Performance of Duty to the Bureau. He served on the Archdiocesan Board of Education for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington for seven years - two years as Vice-President and the last year as President. He was awarded his LL.B. degree in 1981 from the law school at North Carolina Central University and a B.A. in Political Science/Public Administration with honors from Norfolk State University in 1984. He is a member of the bars of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court.

He was appointed to the Ethics Board on November 19, 2008.