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Bernard L. McNamee
Partner 
One James Center
bmcnamee@mcguirewoods.com901 East Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030 F: 804.698.2113    |
Mr. McNamee serves as the vice chair of the firm's Energy and Climate Change Team. His practice focuses on representing utility and energy clients before the Virginia State Corporation Commission as well as providing advice on major policy issues facing the energy industry.
He has assisted electric utilities and natural gas utilities on regulatory issues related to renewable energy, demand-side management energy efficiency, integrated resources planning, transmission lines, generation facilities, and decoupling mechanisms. He also serves clients of McGuireWoods and McGuireWoods Consulting on a range of legislative and government relations matters. He also has significant experience in policy development, public relations and crisis management.
He served as chief deputy attorney general to former Attorney General Judith Williams Jagdmann. He previously served as chief counsel to Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, as deputy attorney general to Attorney General Randolph Beales, as director of policy for George Allen's successful U.S. Senate campaign, and as deputy counselor and policy advisor to Sen. Allen, when he was governor. Mr. McNamee was also a visiting scholar at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary.
- Named One of the "Best Lawyers in America," Woodward/White, Inc., 2010-2012
- Named One of Virginia's "Legal Elite," Virginia Business, 2009
- Chief Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia
- Chief Counsel to the Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia
- Transition Director for Two Attorneys General-elect
- Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia
- Policy Director, George Allen for Senate 2000
- Deputy Counselor and Policy Advisor to Governor George Allen
- Partner, Williams Mullen
- Associate, Hunton & Williams
- Associate, Elarbee Thompson & Trapnell
- House of Cards: Why Arms Control Must Fail, 7 Emory International Law Review, No. 1 1993
- Separating Rights From Sovereignty: The Rise of Transovereignty and its Implications for the Ethics of Human Rights Law Practice, Co-authored with Professor Timothy Terrell, 17 Fordham International Law Review, No. 3 1994
- Executive Veto: The Power of the Pen in Virginia, 9 Regent University law Review, Fall 1997
- Don't Feed the Leviathan: Cutting Virginia's Car Tax is Good Government, Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 29, 2001
- State Takes Measured Approach [on Electric Utility Restructuring], Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 14, 2006
- IRI Angola Parliamentary Training Mission, Angola, Africa, July 1999
- Federalist Society of Virginia, 2004-Present
- Attorney General's Task Force on Access to Higher Education, 2003
- Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission, 2002-2003
- Special Assistant, Virginia Preparedness and Security Panel, 2001
- Administrative Law Advisory Committee, Virginia Code Commission, 2000-2002
- Trustee, Virginia 4-H Foundation, 1998-2002
- Council, America's First Freedom, 2006-2007
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EDUCATION Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, J.D., 1993 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, B.A., 1989 ADMITTED U.S. Supreme Court 2005 Virginia 1995 Georgia 1994 (inactive) PLACE OF BIRTH Elkhart, Indiana |