James Green, Senior Advisor

James S. Green began his legal career with the Federal Government in 1970, and he retired in June 2007, with over 37 years of senior level legal and management experience. He served with the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and, since1976, in progressively more responsible management and executive positions with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). He was appointed the first career Deputy General Counsel at OPM, responsible for legal analysis and litigation involving Federal human resource issues affecting over nine million Federal employees, retirees, and dependents. He had direct responsibilities for legal issues involving Federal employee retirement, health benefits, group life insurance, long term care, flexible spending accounts, Federal pay and leave including basic pay, overtime pay, premium pay, law enforcement pay, and executive compensation. More recently, he was integrally involved in legal issues affecting personnel systems at the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense arising from the Homeland Security Act and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. Mr. Green also was responsible for OPM legal issues involving procurement and contracting, the Senior Executive Service, ethics, and the Combined Federal Campaign. 

Mr. Green has a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) from Boston University and earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He was appointed a member of the Senior Executive Service in 1986 and was awarded an SES Rank Award of Meritorious Executive by President George W. Bush in 2005.

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