Paul C. Ney, Jr. [SEP] educated at
Paul C. Ney Jr.
Paul C. Ney Jr. is an American lawyer who is currently the General Counsel of the Department of Defense of the United States. He previously served as Acting General Counsel of the Navy and as the Chief Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee.
Biography.
Paul C. Ney Jr. attended Cornell University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1980. Ney next enrolled in the joint Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration program at Vanderbilt University, graduating in 1984. He then spent 1984–85 clerking for Judge
Justice and former Attorney General James Clark McReynolds (B.S. 1882). Jack Watson (B.A. 1960) served as Jimmy Carter's campaign finance chairman and then as his Chief of Staff. Paul C. Ney Jr. (J.D./M.B.A. 1984) is a former adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School and the current General Counsel of the Department of Defense. Jacob M. Dickinson taught at Vanderbilt Law School and later served as the 44th United States Secretary of War. Multiple leaders in foreign government are alumni. Thomas Jefferson (M.A. 1975) served as the