Theodore B. Olson

Theodore B. Olson

Theodore B. Olson is a Partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Co-Chair of the Appellate and Constitutional Law Group and the firm’s crisis Management Team.

Mr. Olson was Solicitor General of the United States during the period 2001-2004.  From 1981-1984 he was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice.  Except for those two intervals he has been a lawyer with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. since 1965.

Mr. Olson has argued 55 cases before the United States Supreme Court.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.  He is currently Co-Chair of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.  Mr. Olson is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Foundation and a Member of the Board or Directors of the National Center for State Courts.  He was a Visiting Scholar at the National Constitution Center, 2006-2007.