C. Boyden Gray

Boyden Gray’s legal practice focuses on regulatory and environmental issues, including those on biotechnology, trade, clean air, and the management of risk.

Mr. Gray was one of the principal architects of the 1991 Clean Air Act Amendments. He has extensive experience with the use of market incentives to achieve environmental goals, and he is widely credited with having triggered the Clean Air Act acid rain emissions trading system, and the use of market incentives in phasing out CFCs under the Montreal Protocol. He also has had extensive experience with new drug approval procedures at the FDA. He represents clients in connection with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other US regulatory agencies.

Mr. Gray is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B. 1964, magna cum laude) and the University of North Carolina (J.D. 1968, first in class), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the UNC Law Review. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court for a year. Mr. Gray joined Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (WCP) in 1969 and became a partner in 1976. In 1981, he left the firm to serve as Legal Counsel to Vice President George Bush. He also served as Counsel to the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief, chaired by Vice President Bush. Mr. Gray later served as Director of the Office of Transition Counsel for the Bush transition team, and as Counsel to President Bush from 1989-1993. He returned to WCP in 1993.

Mr. Gray currently serves as Chairman of Citizens for a Sound Economy. He is a member of Harvard University’s Committee on University Development, the Board of Trustees of the Washington Scholarship Fund, the St. Mark’s School and the National Cathedral School. He recently served on the Bush-Cheney Transition Department of Justice Advisory Committee. Mr. Gray is the recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of North Carolina Law School.