NH Bar member and former US Senator Warren B. Rudman recently received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Department of Defense Medal and was one of two recipients of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award bestowed by the US intelligence community.

Rudman was presented the Presidential Citizens Medal "for his wise counsel and his faithful service to our nation," said President Bill Clinton in a ceremony Jan. 8. Clinton cited Rudman's years of national service as a combat platoon leader in the Korean War and as a US Senator, where he "fought to strengthen and modernize our national defense and to put our fiscal house in order," Clinton said.

"…He has repeatedly…undertaken difficult, thankless, inherently controversial tasks with an honesty and candor that showed a support for our nation and a willingness to call them as he saw them," added Clinton.

Rudman received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for serving as chair of the President's Special Oversight Board for the Department of Defense Investigations of Gulf War and Biological Incidents. He served as chair of that board from 1998 to January 2001.

Rudman, along with renowned physicist Sidney D. Drell, was also bestowed with the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal "in recognition of his decades of distinguished service to the intelligence community." Rudman was appointed by Clinton as vice chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in 1993, he now serves as chairman. He also served as vice chairman of the Commission on Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community and as a member of the Select Intelligence Committee. Rudman was presented the award by George J. Tenet, director of Central Intelligence, on Jan. 9.

Rudman represented NH in the Senate from 1981 to 1993. As a senator, Rudman served as chair of the Select Committee on Iran-Contra, as a special advisor on the issue of Gulf War syndrome, and as a member of the Senate Appropriations and Select Ethics committees, among others.

Rudman is a partner with the international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He maintains offices with the firm in Washington and New York, as well as maintaining a part-time office with Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green in Manchester. He is currently serving as co-chair of the US Commission on National Security/21st Century and as a member of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee that will examine the current crisis between the Israelis and Palestinians.

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