Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Lockheed Martin
James B. Comey has been named senior vice president and general counsel of Lockheed Martin. Comey had been a deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice since December 2003, where he oversaw many important government cases, including terrorism and securities fraud prosecutions.
Previously, Comey served as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he had earlier been an assistant U.S. attorney and lead prosecutor in the highly publicized United States v. John Gambino racketeering and murder trial. From 1996 through 2001, he was managing assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the Richmond Division of the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Comey was also a partner with the law firm of McGuireWoods, LLP. He is a 1982 graduate of the College of William & Mary and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985.