Frederick D. McClure, Partner

Baylor University, J.D., 1981
Texas A&M University, B.S., summa cum laude,
Agricultural Economics, 1976

Mr. McClure is the managing partner of the Washington, DC office. He has a national reputation for excellence and extensive legislative experience with Congress.  He also has broad advocacy experience with the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government.  National media organizations regularly seek him for insight on public policy and politics. 

Among his many career highlights, Mr. McClure has served as Assistant for Legislative Affairs to President George H. W. Bush (1989 - 92), as Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs to President Ronald Reagan (1985 - 86), and as Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney General (1984 - 85). 

In 1994, then Governor-elect George W. Bush appointed Mr. McClure to the State of Texas Inaugural Committee, and in 1995 to a six-year term on the Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System, where he served two years as vice chairman.  In 2001, he was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Committee and on the transition committee of Texas Governor Rick Perry. 

Mr. McClure is the former managing shareholder of Winstead Sechrest & Minick's Washington, D.C. office. He also previously served for more than five years as managing director of Public Strategies, Inc., and as a former Government Affairs Staff Vice President of Texas Air Corporation.  Mr. McClure also served as a managing director of First Southwest Company, a financial advisory and investment banking firm.  His other U.S. government service includes Legislative Director to U.S. Senator John Tower of Texas, Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy, and a member of the National Civil Aviation Review Commission.

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In 1991, Mr. McClure's alma mater, Texas A&M University, honored him as its 115^th Distinguished Alumnus. Also in 1991, Baylor University, his law school alma mater, named him as an Outstanding Young Alumnus.

A bipartisan group of Texas Governors has appointed Mr. McClure to four public service positions.

Mr. McClure is a member of the Board of Directors of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, and the Board of Directors of Alex Lee, Inc., a North Carolina-based food retailer and distributor. In 2006 he completed a term as a member of the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board. In February 2002, Mr. McClure completed four years as Chairman of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association.