John Wood, CLO and GC of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced on May 10, 2018, that NAFUSA life member John Wood has been named its chief legal officer and general counsel, beginning June 4.

Wood served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (2007-2009). He also served as a counselor to the U.S. Attorney General and as a deputy associate attorney general at Main Justice. Wood has also served as the chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and as a deputy general counsel in the White House Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush. Wood clerked for former Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig and for Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court.He also served as an aide to U.S. Senator John C. Danforth. He has been a partner at the Washington office of Hughes Hubbard the past nine years.

Wood graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1996, and was the articles chair of the Harvard Law Review. John is married to Julie Myers Wood, the C.E.O. of NAFUSA sponsor Guidepost Solutions.