Eugene Raymond Sullivan is a senior federal judge[1] based in Washington, D.C., nominated by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May 1986.

Prior to becoming a federal judge, Sullivan served in the U.S. government in various positions such as a White House lawyer during Watergate and general counsel of the Department of the U.S. Air Force.

This cadet-run committee investigated and conducted trials of suspected violations of the Honor Code[6] ("A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.").

[11] He traveled multiple times to the then-secret airfield near the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Thailand (Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base – NKP).

While working full time in the Science Advisor's Office and without the knowledge of the science advisor, Sullivan volunteered to be a M60 door gunner on a UH-1C attack helicopter operating on night patrols along the Saigon River to combat enemy activity on the river.

At the beginning of 1974, White House attorney James D. St. Clair, President Richard Nixon's special counsel for the Watergate scandal, selected Sullivan to be on the White House legal team to defend the president in the congressional impeachment hearings and to assist in the related Watergate litigation before Judge Scirica in the District Court in Washington.

When the District Court case proceeded to the Supreme Court, Sullivan wrote a major part of the president's reply brief[14] under the supervision of Professor Charles Alan Wright, who, at that time, was widely considered to be the foremost authority on constitutional law and practice.

As a prosecutor, he participated as co-counsel and obtained convictions in felony drug and gun cases in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

One of the significant actions during Sullivan's tenure as NRO general counsel was when he was consulted on the decision of the NRO Director Edward "Pete" Aldridge to continue the production line of the Titan rocket to launch U.S. military satellites instead of using the Space Shuttle as the sole launch vehicle for the United States.

Sullivan chaired the three-day classified conference for invited members of the Air Force, CIA, NRO, and Department of State.

Sullivan persuaded Professor Carl Sagan to be the pro bono keynote speaker at the formal dinner at the inaugural Space Law Conference held at Peterson Field Air Force Base (now the Peterson Space Force Base) in Colorado Springs.

Chief Judge Sullivan also significantly expanded the court's project outreach[23] program to travel to law schools and cities outside of D.C. to conduct oral arguments of pending cases.

One such oral argument was conducted aboard the USS John F. Kennedy approximately 300 miles off the coast of the United States (well beyond the 12 nautical mile limit of U.S. territorial waters) to demonstrate the global jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the court's jurisdiction.

Participating judges from the following countries attended the conferences (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Columbia, Romania, Republic of China, Australia, Hungary and the United States).

For several years, Judge Sullivan organized an annual debate between England and the United States based upon the differences in judicial proceedings between the U.S. and the UK systems of justice.

The Round Table Forum was held in Taipei and chaired by the former president of the Republic of China, Lee Teng-hui.

In addition, Sullivan is a member of an ad hoc pro bono group of high-ranking former U.S. government officials, who have advocated for years to protect Iranian refugees from terrorist activities of Iran.

[27] He has written two published novels, both legal thrillers based in Washington D.C., featuring as the hero a federal judge who is a West Pointer in The Majority Rules (2005), praised by Joe Galloway, Co-Author of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, and a Vietnam veteran Army Ranger in The Report to the Judiciary (2008), praised by David Baldacci, New York Times bestselling author.

Sullivan is married to Lis Urup Sullivan (née Johansen) from Nykobing Falster, Denmark,[8] who is a social anthropologist (field work in rural China and Taiwan) and an artist (mediums: stained glass windows, artworks in porcelain and oil painting).

Kim is a TV photo producer/editor in New York City, and Eugene R. Sullivan II attended the Lawrenceville School, Duke University (B.A.

Ellis Island Medal of Honor[29] First Class Medal of Defense (Hungary) Medal of Justice (Romania) Defense Minister Citation of Merit (Republic of China) Honorary Doctor of Law Degree (LL.D, New England School of Law) Trustee emeritus and founding chair of the Ethics Committee, West Point Board of Trustees (Association of Graduates) Trustee emeritus, U.S. Air Force Aid Association (the only official charity of the USAF) Former trustee, Hawaii Pacific University Member of the founding Executive Board of the Duke Law School Center for Law, Ethics and National Security ("LENS") Recipient of the 2001 Castle Award from the West Point Society of Washington D.C.

[30] Founder and chair of CEO Day at the annual National Conference on Ethics in America for college class leaders held at West Point.

Over 60 colleges and universities send 2-4 student leaders to live in the West Point barracks and receive ethics and honor training.