Labor Elizabeth Dole was elected in November 2002 to replace Jesse Helms, who chose to retire, rather than seek a sixth term. Gray served on the Bush-Cheney Transition Department of Justice Advisory Committee, and as White House Counsel to US President George H. W. Bush. In 2002, he founded the Committee for Justice, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit dedicated to screening judicial and US Justice Department nominees. In January 2006, President George W. Bush gave him a recess appointment as United States Ambassador to the European Union. He took a leave of absence from the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr to accept that position. When Gray emerged as Bush's preferred candidate for the post of the US's ambassador to the EU in July 2005, the potential nomination deeply perturbed open source advocates, who viewed his ties to Microsoft with suspicion. Gray's last government position was as Special Envoy for European Affairs and Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy at the Mission of the United States to the European Union, having been nominated by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on January 11, 2008. On March 31, the White House announced his appointment to the additional post of Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy. President H. W. Bush in 1993 awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal. He is a member of the board of directors at the Atlantic Council, The European Institute, FreedomWorks and America Abroad Media. In addition, Gray is or was a member of the Federalist Society, Harvard University's Committee on University Development, the Board of Trustees of the Washington Scholarship Fund, St. Mark's School, and National Cathedral School. See also List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) References External links Desmog Blog Biography of C. Boyden Gray Special Envoy and Ambassador C. Boyden Gray |- |- |- 1943 births Ambassadors of the United States to the European Union Atlantic Council Bowman Gray family Federalist Society members Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Living people North Carolina lawyers North Carolina Republicans People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Presidential Citizens Medal recipients Reagan administration personnel Recess appointments during the George W. Bush administration St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni United States Marine Corps reservists United States presidential advisors United States Special Envoys University of North Carolina School of Law alumni White House Counsels