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Gene E. Godley
Partner
Assistant
Susan Milne202.828.5837
Gene Godley counsels and advises corporate clients on legislation, trade, tax, energy, regulatory affairs and international financial and transactional matters. Mr. Godley's significant experience includes representing Latin American companies in regulatory and transactional matters, including trade and finance laws. He is certified by the International Centers for Arbitration and has served as a FINRA arbitrator. Mr. Godley combines his private practice with several public appointment positions.
In the public sector, Mr. Godley has served in various management and legal positions, including as Chief of Staff to two United States Senators and as general counsel of two U.S. Senate Committees. In 1976, Mr. Godley was nominated by former President James Earl Carter and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where he received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest award of the Treasury Department. He is chairman of the Annapolis Port Wardens, appointed by the mayor of Annapolis, where he has served since 1994.
Mr. Godley has been appointed several times by the United States Trade Representative and secretary of commerce to the Industry Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC) on Energy for Trade Policy Matters. The committee provides advice on the concerns and interests of the private energy sector in regard to U.S. trade objectives.
Mr. Godley served six years as the chairman of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) of the joint United Nations Development Programme/World Bank.
In the private sector, Mr. Godley has been a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, served on the boards of banks and several energy companies, and was chairman of the board of an energy trading company. He has been in the general practice of law for corporate business clients with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP for almost 30 years. He has served as the managing partner of the Washington office and on the firm's management committee.
Education
J.D., The University of Chicago Law School, 1963
B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1960
Bar Admissions
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Texas
Court Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court
Affiliations
State Bar of Texas
