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Stephen Geoffrey Rademaker (born 1959) is an attorney, lobbyist, and former Bush administration government official. He was chief counsel to the United States House Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, and an Assistant Secretary of State from 2002 through 2006.


Education

Rademaker attended the
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where he received a B.A. (1981) in
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, a J.D. (1984), and an M.A. in
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(1985). He was a member of
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, the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, and president of the Student Council during his time at the university.


Career

Rademaker was an associate at the Washington, D.C.
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of Covington & Burling 1984 to 1986, and in 1986 a
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to James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1986 to 1987, he served as counsel to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission. From 1987 to 1989, Stephen served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. From 1989 to 1992, Rademaker held a joint appointment as Associate Counsel to the President in the Office of Counsel to the President and as Deputy Legal Adviser to the
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. From 1992 to 1993, Stephen served as General Counsel of the
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. For most of the following decade, he held positions on the staff of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives, including Minority Chief Counsel (1993–1995), Chief Counsel (1995–2001), and Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel (2001–2002). He returned briefly to the Peace Corps in 2000–2001 as the Bush-Cheney Transition's Director of Transition for the Peace Corps. In 2002, he was Chief Counsel to the Select Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was responsible for drafting the legislation that created the
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. Later that year, he was confirmed by the
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as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, serving until May 2006. After leaving the public sector, Rademaker joined Barbour, Griffith, and Rogers in January 2007. In February 2011, Rademaker left the firm and joined the Podesta Group. In 2020 Covington & Burling listed him as senior of counsel.


Personal life

Rademaker is married to Danielle Pletka, the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the
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. Rademaker has four children.


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bio {{DEFAULTSORT:Rademaker, Stephen 1959 births Living people United States assistant secretaries of state George W. Bush administration personnel Lawyers from Washington, D.C. University of Virginia School of Law alumni Members of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America