Robert D. McCallum, Jr.
Member

Robert D. McCallum, Jr. was sworn in as Ambassador of the United States of America to Australia on July 21, 2006 and served until January 2009. Previously he was the Associate Attorney General, the third-ranking official at the United States Department of Justice, from July 1, 2003. He had earlier served from September 2001, as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, the Department’s largest litigating component.

Before entering government, Mr. McCallum was a partner with the Atlanta, Georgia, law firm of Alston & Bird, specializing in trial and appellate practice. During his twenty-eight years with that firm, he was appointed by the Attorney General of the State of Georgia as a Special Assistant Attorney General, and he was the recipient of the Atlanta Bar Association Leadership Award in 2001. He has authored numerous legal articles and publications and also served as a lecturer on a variety of legal topics.

Over his career, Robert McCallum has been active in numerous civic organizations, including service as a Director of the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina; President of the Yale Club of Georgia; State and District Secretary for the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committees; Georgia Representative of the Yale Law School Alumni/ae Association; and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Choate Rosemary Hall School in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Mr. McCallum was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Yale University as an undergraduate on a National Merit Scholarship, receiving his B.A., cum laude, in History. After graduation, he attended Christ Church at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning a B.A. in Jurisprudence with First Class Honors. He obtained his J.D. from Yale Law School on an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and entered the practice of law that same year.

Mr. McCallum was appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President George W. Bush in January 2009.  As Ambassador to Australia, Mr. McCallum served with the Prime Minister of Australia as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Australian American Fulbright Commission

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