Clubhouse Lawyer: Jones Day Partner to Lead U.S. Golf Assocation

February 1, 2012 2:56 PM

Clubhouse Lawyer: Jones Day Partner to Lead U.S. Golf Assocation

Posted by Scott Graham

In law and in golf, Glen Nager has had an exceptional mentor. The Jones Day litigation partner clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 1983. And when Nager started hitting the links some years later, the pair played several rounds together and O’Connor sponsored his membership to Chevy Chase Club.

“He hits a long ball,” O’Connor said last week, “and if he keeps it straight he’s in good shape.”

Over the years Nager has honed his golf game while stalking the leaders of the appellate bar, launching Jones Day’s issues and appeals practice and scoring wins at the U.S. Supreme Court in such cases as 2010′s American Needle Inc. v. National Football League,  [pdf], and 2007′s Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. [pdf]. 

Now, Nager is taking on a leadership role with the United States Golf Association too. On Saturday in Houston he will be installed as the sixty-second president of the organization that, along with the The RA,  governs professional and amateur

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