Powell Pierpoint (April 30, 1922 – November 17, 1998) was an American lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Army from 1961 to 1963.
Pierpoint joined the predecessor law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed as an associate in 1948 and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1949.
He married Margaret Shaw Sagar on March 24, 1950, and together the couple had one daughter, Harriet Pierpoint Bos.
[1] He became a partner at Hughes Hubbard in 1955, and he practiced law there until 1993, when he became of counsel, holding that status until his death.
[2] From 1961 to 1963, Pierpoint took a leave of absence from Hughes Hubbard to serve as General Counsel of the Army.