Steven P. Croley

Steven Paul Croley,[1] Chief Policy Officer and General Counsel of Ford Motor Company,[2] is an American lawyer and executive.

He leads Ford’s Office of General Counsel, Government Affairs, Environment & Safety Compliance, and Physical Security functions globally.

He was sworn in following his Senate confirmation to become general counsel of the United States Department of Energy on May 21, 2014, and served in that role till January 19, 2017.

"[6] Croley was also appointed by President Obama to serve as a council member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, where he was a James B. Angell Scholar and won the William Jennings Bryan Prize, in 1988.

[7] Croley served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1991 to 1992.

Croley was ranked by Brian Leiter in 2002 as being the ninth most widely cited law faculty who entered teaching since 1993.

He represented the United States in affirmative and defensive civil litigation in the federal trial and appellate courts.

Croley also served as a research consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor from 1994 to 1995, to the Administrative Conference of the United States from 1994 to 1995, and the Michigan Law Revision Commission from 1996 to 1999.