INTRODUCING...  Robert Woody
3420 No. Albemarle Street Arlington, Virginia 22207 703-534-4195 (H) 442-296-1351 (O) 703-946-1282 (mobile) Professional Experience: Deputy Chairman of the Board, a Founder and General Counsel, Northstar Financial Services Ltd., and its subsidiaries, Northstar Financial Services (Bermuda) Ltd. and NFSB Investments Ltd., a life and annuity group of companies headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda (December 31, 2005 – present); Chief Executive Officer, Northstar Consulting Group, Inc. (July 1, 2004 –present); previously (Jan. 1, 2002 – June 30, 2004) Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Northstar Companies, Inc., with offices in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Md. Partner: Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Hamilton Square, Washington, D.C., December, 1997-January 1, 2002. Partner in the Business and Finance Division of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., an international law firm with 650 lawyers in 10 offices on 3 continents. Chairman of the Energy Section of the firm. Practice involved representation and counsel in regulatory and governmental matters, in commercial and business transactions, acquisitions and divestitures, financings, joint ventures, public and private offerings, and general business counseling. Served as lead counsel for the workout of energy-related claims in one of the largest Chapter II reorganizations in U.S. history. Served as Counsel in Washington to the University of Kansas on research and educational issues. Managing Partner (Washington), [Casey,] Lane & Mittendorf, 320 Park Avenue, New York, NY and 919 18th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 1975-1997. Led the Washington practice, engaged in all phases of business law, prior to its merger into SHB in 1997. One To One/The National Mentoring Partnership, Inc., 1990-1991. Served as Vice President and a Member of the initial Board of Directors. [Took a one-year leave of absence from the law firm to help launch this national effort to address the problems of "at risk" youth.] Led the enlistment of business and professional leaders into company-wide and citywide mentoring programs. United Nations, July - December 1978. Served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Delegation to the 33rd General Assembly to the United Nations (accompanied and advised U.S. Senator Pearson and four other distinguished Americans accorded Ambassadorial rank). United States Senate, 1969-1973. Served as Counsel to the Committee on Commerce (1971-1973) and as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator James B. Pearson of Kansas (1969-1971). Drafted portions of original anti-hijacking legislation, the Airport and Airways Trust Fund, a proposal to establish a Federal Elections Commission, the Pearson-Mondale bill which reformed the Senate's filibuster rule, as well as proposals to advance child safety and to require unit pricing of consumer products. Boards of Directors, Professional and Civic Affiliations. Board of Directors, Bethlehem Rebar Industries, Inc. (former Division of Bethlehem Steel Corporation), whose six member Board also included former President Ford and former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, 1986-1987; U.S. National Commission on UNESCO, 1983-1986 (appointed Member-At-Large by Secretary of State Schultz); Counsel to the Permanent Organization Committee of the Republican National Convention (Detroit, 1980, which nominated Governor Ronald Reagan); Counsel to the U.S. Delegation to the 24th International Conference of the Red Cross, Manila; Advisory Council, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School, 1994-1996; National Recruiting Chairman, Lawyers for Dole, 1988 and 1996; Board of Directors, Y.M.C.A of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., 1982-1987; Board of Directors, One to One/The National Mentoring Partnership, Inc., 1990-1995. Board of Directors, CNL Income Properties, Inc., 2003- present. Co-Chairman, the Buxton Initiative, Inc., a new charitable organization focused on interfaith dialogue, initially funded by the Case Foundation, 2004-present. Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Courts of the District of Columbia and the State of Kansas. Member of the American, District of Columbia, Kansas and Federal Energy Bar Associations. Co-Author: "Barriers to the Development and Expanded Use Of Natural Gas Resources ", commissioned and published by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (comprised of the Governors of oil and gas producing states), 1992. Listed in Who’s Who in American Law. Education. B.A., History and Political Science, (Strickland Award for Outstanding Graduate and President of the Centennial Class) 1966, and J.D., Law, 1969, (Faculty Award Graduate) University of Kansas. Graduate legal study in international law, the University of Exeter, England, 1972. Military Service Served to the rank of Captain, Judge Advocate General's Corp, U.S. Army Reserve, 1969-1975. Personal Background. Member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Arlington, Virginia (Vestryman and Senior Warden, 1981-1983, Vestryman, 2001-2003); Chairman of the Arlington-Great Falls Young Life Committee, 1990-1995; Volunteer host for the National Prayer Breakfast (1990-present) and Budget Officer for the Ethiopia Opportunity Fund (1998-present). Finance Co-Chairman, the DC Festival with Luis Palau (2004-2005). Born: Bartlesville, Oklahoma, January 23, 1944. Married Nancy L. Harrington, June 10, 1967. Children: Kristin Woody O'Reilly (Duke University '93, Georgetown Law '97), John Harrington Woody (Duke University, BME '96), Karen Elizabeth Woody (University of Virginia '01 and Yale University MBA '06). Grandchildren: Logan James O'Reilly, Caitlin Elizabeth O'Reilly and Owen Robert Woody. |
