American lawyer and diplomat Clayland Gray (February 6, 1943 – May 21, 2023) served as White House Counsel from 1989 to 1993 and as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2007. He was a founding member of the legal team at Boyden Gray & Associates LLP in Washington, D.C.
Gray worked as a law clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren after graduating. He began working for Wilmer Cutler & Pickering in 1968; this company is now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. In 1976, he was made a partner. Gray was once a Democrat, but by the end of the 1970s, he had defected to the Republican Party in protest of Jimmy Carter’s presidency. He served on the boards of directors for the American Abroad Media, FreedomWorks, The European Institute, and the Atlantic Council.
C. Boyden Gray daughter: Meet Eliza Gray
Gray was 80 years old. According to Eliza Gray, his daughter, heart failure was the reason. As counsel to the White House, Mr. Gray achieved his highest federal post. Gray was a member of the Department of Justice Advisory Committee during the Bush-Cheney Transition. He established the Committee for Justice in 2002, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, with the goal of vetting judicial and US Justice Department nominees.