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Senior Staff Biographies

General Counsel

Kerry B. McTigue

Director Springer has announced that Kerry B. McTigue has joined OPM as general counsel.

McTigue was a partner with a law firm in Columbia, S. C.  A member of the South Carolina Bar and the Kentucky Bar Association, Mr. McTigue is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for South Carolina, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. McTigue served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps as a trial counsel and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Civil Law and Litigation Division. There he acted as the principal advisor to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division for all installation civilian prosecutions for the Western District of Missouri. Before serving on active duty, Mr. McTigue was associated with a Kentucky law firm. He has served as adjunct law professor at several colleges and universities where he has taught courses in the law.

Mr. McTigue earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1996. During law school, he received a CALI award for excellence in litigation, served as articles editor of the Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, and was selected as a member of the International Moot Court Team. In 1993, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Financial Management, cum laude, from Clemson University, where he was designated a Distinguished Military Graduate.