Robert Craig Anderson, Attorney

Craig Anderson is currently a partner in the northern Virginia law firm of HALE CARLSON BAUMGARTNER, PLC, and has been associated with the law firm since 1995. He represents a variety of clients with civil legal issues and problems, focusing on business, corporate and commercial contracts, leases, regulatory and environmental/land use matters, and other related areas. He also provides wills, trusts and estate planning services for clients of the firm, in conjunction with that practice section.

During the four-year period from February 1997 through March 2001, Mr. Anderson was "Of Counsel" to the law firm, and assumed full-time responsibilities as the General Counsel for an engineering services company in northern Virginia. He also acted as legal advisor for an affiliated public company whose products included a fire suppressant and an industrial odor control chemical compound. Both companies had outside attorneys for patent and securities specialty work. Mr. Anderson advised senior officials in the company's four divisions on the balance of legal issues that arose in the course of their execution of government and private contracts.

Mr. Anderson served as an Air Force lawyer (Judge Advocate) throughout a 20-year career. When he transitioned from the Air Force to private practice in 1994, he had just completed a four-year tour as the Chief, Environmental Law Branch, Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, in Hampton, Virginia. That branch had three full-time environmental attorneys, and provided advice and legal services to over 30 base-level legal offices. Mr. Anderson was the primary legal advisor to command senior leadership and command engineers on all aspects of environmental law requirements.

Mr. Anderson earned an LL.M. (Master of Laws) degree in Environmental Law (With Highest Honors) and ranked first in his class from The George Washington University in 1992. He received his basic law degree (J.D.) from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1977. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, from which he graduated 14th in his class in 1974, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. He received an award at graduation as the Outstanding Cadet in Political Science.