Michael M. Uhlmann
Dr. Michael Uhlmann has been teaching in the Department of Politics and Policy/SPE at
Claremont Graduate University since 2002. His courses concentrate on the American Presidency,
executive-congressional relations, and the federal judiciary, including the federal administrative
process and national security decision-making. He is also an adjunct professor at Claremont
McKenna College, teaching a wide variety of courses in the Department of Government.
In addition to his regular coursework for the Department of Politics and Policy, Dr.
Uhlmann teaches in, and serves as the Director of, CGU’s new Tribal Administration Program,
made possible through a generous grant from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
Immediately prior to joining the CGU faculty Professor Uhlmann had been a senior vicepresident of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has also
been a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and was for
many years a partner in the Washington office of Pepper, Hamilton, & Scheetz, a large
international law firm, where he specialized in federal antitrust and administrative law.
In addition to private legal practice and philanthropic work, Dr. Uhlmann has had a
distinguished career in government, beginning with service as a staff and committee counsel in
the U.C. Senate and as Assistant General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. In 1974,
following Senate confirmation, he was appointed by President Gerald Ford to be Assistant
Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the Department of Justice. From 1981-84, he served
as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and associate director of the White House
Office of Policy Development. He directed legal and administrative policy for the Reagan
presidential transition in 1980-81 and chaired the Department of Justice transition team for
President-Elect George H.W. Bush in 1988-89.
Mr. Uhlmann has written for many leading newspapers and journals of opinion, including
National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times, The
Washington Post, First Things, and The Claremont Review of Books. A graduate of Yale
University and the University of Virginia Law School, Mr. Uhlmann received his doctorate in
government from the Claremont Graduate School.