James F. McGovern (born November 28, 1946) was United States Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1986 to 1989.

[1] McGovern received a Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, in Washington, D.C., in 1978.

[1] From 1978 to 1981, he was an associate attorney at the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro in Washington, D.C.[1] He then spent 1981 and 1982 as general counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services under the chairmanship of U.S.

After leaving government service, McGovern spent seven years as the president of Teledyne Brown Engineering.

[2] He later served as the president of Tripolis Technologies, a managing director of El Camino Capital Partners, the chief executive officer of Dunhill Technologies, a senior managing director of McGovern & Associates, and as the chief executive officer of Calpoint.