Terry Alan Smiljanich (born March 1, 1947) is an American lawyer who acted as counsel to the United States Senate during the congressional hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. In 1983 Smiljanich co-founded the law firm Blasingame, Forizs & Smiljanich. Early life Smiljanich was born in Tampa, Florida in 1947 to Peter and Olga Smiljanich. His father was in the Air Force and the family traveled extensively, with stays in Japan, Mississippi, Florida and Texas. He attended Alamo Heights High School, Randolph High School on Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, and graduated in 1965 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Tampa, Florida. Education Smiljanich attended the University of Florida, where he met his wife Dorothy Weik in 1967 (they married in 1969). He graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and attended the University of Florida College of Law, serving as editor of the University of Florida Law Review and graduating in 1972. Career Smiljanich served as a law clerk to United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Judge Ben Krentzman in Tampa from 1972 to 1974. He was Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 1974 to 1977. While serving as a federal prosecutor, he handled organized crime cases, kidnappings, bank robberies, and environmental crimes, among other prosecutions. He won convictions of several organized crime figures. Smiljanich served in the United States Army Reserve from 1972 to 1981, and became a captain. Smiljanich acted as counsel to the United States Senate during the congressional hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. His responsibilities included investigations of State Department and White House personnel involved in the political scandal. He conducted the public interrogation of former United States Secretary of the Treasury and Chief of Staff Donald Regan during the televised hearings. In 1983 Smiljanich co-founded the law firm Blasingame, Forizs & Smiljanich. He was a partner there until 1997 when the firm merged with James, Hoyer & Newcomer the firm is now James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich, P.A. where he is currently a senior partner. As a lawyer he has been critical of mortgage banks and the practices in the private mortgage insurance business estimating that over one million homeowners in the U.S. were victims of the industry's failure to warn them about credit report issues that could raise premiums to over $700 a month on a $200,000 loan. He is