Printable Biography of George Haley

In 1990, President Bush appointed George W. Haley, Esq. Chairman of the Postal Rate Commission (PRC), a term he served until 1992. In October of 1992, President Clinton re-commissioned him to the board of the PRC, though this time as its Commissioner, he served from 1993 to 1998. Prior to his assuming his Commission post, Mr. Haley, an attorney, was President of George W. Haley, P.C., located in Washington, DC, which specialized in transportation, corporate, and international law.

Mr. Haley's public service began in Kansas City, Kansas, where he began his practice of law in the fall of 1952. While in private practice, he also served as Deputy City Attorney (1954-1964) and later as State Senator (1964-1968). After coming to Washington, he served as Chief Counsel of the Federal Transit Administration (then known as the Urban Mass Transportation Administration) (1969-1973), Associate Director for Equal Employment Opportunity at the United States Information Agency (USIA) (1973-1976), and as General Counsel and Congressional Liaison at USIA (1976-1977). After leaving USIA, he became a partner in the law firm of Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, of Philadelphia and Washington, until he established his own firm in 1981.

Mr. Haley was invited to address the International Conference of Families held in Geneva, Switzerland in October 1999. From 1978 until 1984, Mr. Haley served as Legal Adviser to the Economic Community of West African States. In 1983, he was appointed by the President to serve on the United States delegation at the Twenty-second General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris. In 1984, the President appointed him to the United States delegation to the Second International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in Africa in Geneva, Switzerland, and to serve as well on the 15-member Monitoring Panel on the question of U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO. In 1987, the President appointed Mr. Haley to the delegation representing the United States at the Centennial Celebration of Dakar, Senegal, in West Africa. In 1997, he was a member of the United States Presidential Delegation to the Fourth African-American Summit held in Harare, Zimbabwe, and in 1999, he was a member of the United States Presidential Delegation to the Fifth African American Summit held in Accra, Ghana.

Ambassador Haley is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta; he received his law degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1952 as its second African-American graduate. Ambassador Haley was presented the Bennie Award by Morehouse College in 1998. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the National Bar Association as well as the bar associations of Arkansas, the District of Columbia, and Kansas. On December 6, 2000, Ambassador Haley was the recipient of the Peace Maker award by the Olender Foundation. In May 2000, Ambassador Haley was awarded the Hero In Law by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. He is licensed to practice law in those jurisdictions as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court.