Glen D. Nager

USGA President 

Glen D. Nager, 54, of Washington, D.C., is in his fifth year as a member of the Executive Committee and second as USGA president, following two years as vice president. He served as general counsel to the USGA from 2006 to 2008.

Nager is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Jones Day, an international law firm, where he chairs the firm’s Issues and Appeals Practice. He has argued 13 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has tried cases and argued appeals in subject areas such as antitrust, civil rights, employment, environmental law, government contracts and intellectual property, representing clients such as General Electric, CBS, IBM and Sodexo.
Nager also serves as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught administrative and constitutional law. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Law Review. Among his clerkships was service in 1983 with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2013, Nager will chair the Management Committee.