Mr. Horn joined the Washington law offices of Patton Boggs in 2001 as a member of the public policy practice group. He represents and counsels corporate, nonprofit and international clients in energy, environmental and public policy matters, as well as state and federal regulatory and legislative matters. Mr. Horn is Co-Chair of the Subcommittee on Free Trade Areas of the Americas of the American Bar Association's Section on Dispute Resolution.
Prior to joining Patton Boggs, Mr. Horn worked for the Detroit Edison Company as Assistant Vice President Federal Affairs. He was the company's lead in all federal matters and represented DTE Energy, Detroit Edison and its subsidiaries in all federal interactions with Congress, the Executive Branch and the administrative agencies. Mr. Horn was elected a Corporate Officer in 1988.
Mr. Horn also has a great deal of experience in both federal and state government. He served in the White House as Executive Secretary of the Presidential Clemency Board under President Ford. He was Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Housing Management for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development assigned to the Office of the Secretary. In that capacity, he authored two major studies published by HUD relating to the availability of crime insurance in urban areas and an analysis of real estate settlement costs nationwide.
Subsequent to his White House tenure, Mr. Horn became Director of the State of Michigan's Washington Office under Governor William Milliken where he held sub-cabinet rank. His colleagues from the other state offices elected Mr. Horn Chairman of the Washington Representatives of the Governors. Governor Milliken also appointed Mr. Horn as a Board Member of the Michigan Energy Research and Resource Association, an industry, state government and academic coalition organized to promote technology development in the State of Michigan.
In 1987, President Reagan appointed Mr. Horn to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He was re-appointed in 1992 by President Bush and allowed to serve additional two years under President Clinton. During that time he was involved in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum serving on the Content Committee and the International Relations Committees. When the Museum was completed, he was elected to the Executive Committee and Chaired the Governance Committee that supervised the internal management of the museum. Mr. Horn became a member of the negotiating team that obtained restitution for the double victims of the Communism and Nazism in Eastern Europe.
Mr. Horn serves as Chairman of the Republican National Lawyers Association that he helped create when he was the Executive Director of Lawyers for Reagan and Bush ‘84. Since 1980, Mr. Horn held in various positions as counsel and/or parliamentarian to each successive Republican National Convention. He served on the Reagan and George Bush Transition teams. During the last election, he helped organize and develop a cadre of lawyer volunteers nationally in support of President George W. Bush’s presidential campaign. He traveled extensively on behalf of the campaign both during the primaries and the general election. He was one of the lead attorneys in Broward County, Florida during the recount.
Mr. Horn has traveled abroad several times for the U.S. Information Agency as part of its AMPARTS program and for the Konrad Adenauer Stifftung lecturing on international economic, energy and environmental issues. He was an adjunct Professor of Law at American University Law school where he taught legal research and writing. He has been a guest lecturer on a variety of topics at the University of Michigan, Georgetown University and The American University, The Sorbonne and the University of Jena.
Mr. Horn is honorably discharged from the United States Army Reserve and has a reading and speaking knowledge of German. He is admitted to the District of Columbia and New York Bars.
Education:
University of Michigan, Graduate School of Business Administration's
Program for Utility Executives, Certificate, 1982
Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 1967
Baruch School of Business and Public Administration, of the City College
of New York, B.A., 1964