Alan K. Simpson - Lawyer in Cody, WY

Hon. Alan Simpson served in the U.S. Senate (Wyoming) from January 1979 to 1997, where he was Assistant Republican Leader, 1984-1994; Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1980-1984; Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation of Environmental and Public Works, 1980-1984; Chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security and a member of the Committee on Aging; Chairman of the Committee on Veterans Affairs, 1980-1984. In 1994-1996, he was a member of the Finance Committee; 1965-1977, Wyoming State Legislature, 1965-1978, Assistant Majority Leader, Majority Leader and Speaker pro tempore.

Mr. Simpson served as Assistant Attorney General of Wyoming in 1959, and was City Attorney of Cody, Wyoming from 1959-1969. Partner: Simpson and Simpson (with father Milward L. Simpson, who also served as governor and U.S. Senator from Wyoming); Simpson Kepler and Simpson, 1960-1978. In addition, Mr. Simpson served in the U.S. Army, 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Armored Division «Hell on Wheels» and 5th Division of the U.S. Armed Forces, Germany.

Alan Simpson currently works at the Washington Speakers Bureau in Washington, DC. He is a very popular speaker and travels around the country and abroad, speaking to a variety of groups and associations on current issues and politics in remarks entitled «Politics is a contact sport.»

Mr. Alan Simpson is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Buffalo Bill West Center in Cody, Wyoming.

Mr. Simpson was a member of the Folger-Shakespeare Library Board of Visitors and the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. from 1994-1996. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Simpson was Director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and he was a visiting lecturer at the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, 1997-2000.

Mr. Simpson was on the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1996, and has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1994. He served on the Board of Directors of Biogen Corporation (now Biogenidec Corporation), Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1997-2004, and was also a member of the Board of Directors of American Express Funds, now Riversource Funds, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1997 to 2006.

Mr. Simpson was also a member of the External Advisory Board of BP America Inc.

Alan Simpson is an honorary trustee of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson, Wyoming, and was previously a board member of Pacificorp from 1997-2000.

In March 2010, Mr. Simpson was appointed by the President as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, and was also a member of the ten-person Iraq Study Group established under the auspices of the US Institute of Peace, established by Congress in 2006.