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Clay
Mulford
Attorney,
Jones Day
 Clay
Mulford, a partner with the law firm
Jones-Day, has served as a resident Fellow of the Institute of
Politics at Harvard, where he lectured at the Kennedy School of
Government. In 1992 he was general counsel and subsequently a
principal spokesperson and campaign manager of Ross Perot's
presidential campaign and in 1996 was general counsel to the Reform
Party and Perot 1996. In 1993 and 1994 he served on the Coalition
for Justice, the ABA National Select Committee to reform the justice
system.
In his legal capacity,
Clay has served as lead counsel for the effort to obtain
pre-election funding for a third-party presidential candidate for
the first time in U.S. history, ballot access in the 50 states, and
has practiced before the Federal Election Commission, Federal
Communications Commission, and Commission on Presidential Debates.
Clay has served for a
number of years as a speaker, author, and faculty member on
corporate and securities law maters for many organizations,
including the SEC Institute and the State Bar of Texas, as well as
various organizations related to the technology industry. Since 1992
he also has been active in the area of campaign finance reform and
election law. In 2003 he served on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on the
Presidential Primary System under the auspices of the Campaign
Finance Institute. He served on the ABA National Advisory Committee
on Election Law from 1993 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2001 and on the
ABA Standing Committee on Election Law from 1995 to 1999.
In keeping with his
consistent political involvement, Clay
was a commentator on the PBS series "Follow the Money" and
served on the National Advisory Committee of the "Money,
Politics and Public Voice" project of the League of Women
Voters. He has conducted seminars concerning the regulation of
ballot access and campaign activities for National Duma members both
at the Kennedy School and, as a guest of the Russian Federation, the
Moscow School of Political Studies. In 1998 he hosted the Russian
Federation Election Commissioner and delegation in the U.S. to
observe the U.S. federal election. He is also a Fellow of the
British American Project of the Royal Institute of International
Affairs, London and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies. He received his BA from Amherst College
(1978) and his MA and JD from the University of Virginia (1982).
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