Eugene Raymond Sullivan (born August 2, 1941) is an American lawyer who is a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush named him the chief judge. When not recalled to active court service, Sullivan is a senior partner in the Washington D.C. law firm of Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan LLP. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Sullivan graduated from St. Louis University High School before matriculating to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, where he was a member of the Cadet Honor Committee and the varsity lacrosse team. Following graduation with a B.S. degree in 1964, he was in the Army for five years and qualified as a tanker, an airborne ranger, a ranger instructor and a jumpmaster. He was awarded the Bronze Star, the Air Medal and other decorations in Vietnam. Sullivan has been inducted into the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame. After his time in the Army, Sullivan graduated from Georgetown University Law Center with a Juris Doctor in 1971, and was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal in his final year. After law school, Sullivan clerked for Chief Judge Marion Charles Matthes of the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit and worked for the Patton Boggs law firm in Washington, D.C.. Sullivan worked in the White House on the legal defense team of President Richard Nixon during the Watergate investigation in 1974. From 1974 to 1982, he was a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice. From 1982 to 1986, he worked in the Pentagon as the general counsel and the chief ethics officer of the U.S. Air Force after initially being the deputy general counsel. From 1982 until 1986, Sullivan was the general counsel of the National Reconnaissance Office, a then secret US satellite intelligence agenc). In addition, in 1984–1986, he was the governor of Wake Island, the U.S. possession in the Pacific. In 1988 and 1989, he sat on the federal commission to review the West Point Honor Code. He is a trustee emeritus and the founding chair of the ethics committee of the West Point board of trustees and was on the first executive board of the Duke University Law School Center for Law, Ethics and National Security. Sullivan has given many lectures on American law to visiting international judges and lawyers.