Robert A Anthony

Anthony served as a former Chairman (1974-1979) and Senior Fellow (1982-1995, 2010-2011) of the Administrative Conference. He was also a George Mason University Foundation Professor Emeritus, GMU School of Law. Anthony joined George Mason in 1983, having previously practiced law in Washington, D.C., and, earlier, in San Francisco. He served for 10 years on the Cornell University Law School faculty as an associate professor of law (1964-1968) and as a full professor (1968-1974). On leave from Cornell in 1972-1973, he served as chief counsel and then as the director of the U.S. Office of Foreign Direct Investments in the Department of Commerce. In 1974, after confirmation by the Senate, he was appointed by President Ford to be chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States and served until 1979. Anthony earned a B.A. degree from Yale (1953) and a B.A. Juris from Oxford (1955). His J.D. is from Stanford University (1957).