Reed Hundt

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Hundt attended high school in Washington D.C. at St. Albans School, graduating in 1965.^[1] He went to Yale College, where he majored in history, graduating magna cum laude with honors with exceptional distinction in history. He was the Executive Editor of the Yale Daily News. Hundt taught school for two years between college and matriculation at Yale Law School from where he graduated in 1974. He was the book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Harrison Lee Winter, a Baltimore judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, before moving to Los Angeles, where he became the 85th lawyer at Latham & Watkins, now one of the biggest law firms in the world.

In 1980, Hundt moved to the Latham & Watkins' Washington, D.C., office. In his litigation career at the firm, Hundt appeared in court in 48 states and the District of Columbia, argued appellate cases in almost all circuits, and handled cases in many topic areas. He specialized in antitrust litigation and was the lead attorney for the first-named defendant in the jury trial verdict for the defendants affirmed in In re Fine Paper Antitrust Litigation, 685 F. 2d 810 (3d Cir. 1982). This was then the first jury verdict ever for defendants in a multidistrict antitrust class action lawsuit.^{[citation needed]}

From 1983 Hundt supported Al Gore's political career.^{[citation needed]} In 1992-3 he was part of the Clinton-Gore transition team, and chaired the committee that drafted the partly successful carbon tax introduced and passed in the House of Representatives in 1993. It was not passed through the Senate. In 1993 President Clinton, whom Hundt had known in law school, nominated Hundt to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was confirmed in November 1993 and served until November 1997.

Between 1998 and 2008, Hundt was a senior advisor to McKinsey, the consulting firm.^{[citation needed]} He also served on many technology company boards from 1998 to the present,including the board of Intel Corporation from 2001 to 2020. He co-founded four firms (none of which was wildly successful), gave many speeches, wrote five books and numerous articles.

He taught at Yale College, Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management from 1998 to 2003, and at the Columbia University Business School. He has lectured at Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, USC, Northwestern University, Ohio State University Law School, Youngstown University, Princeton University, New York University, andat various other venues.

From 2008 to 2014 he was a senior adviser to Skadden Arps, and from 2014 to 2020 was a senior adviser to the Covington law firm.

Hundt is referenced by Dale Gribble in Season 4, Episode 10 ("Hillenium") of King of the Hill as the author of a "brilliantly written op-ed piece" about Y2K millennium.^{[citation needed]}

In an episode of the original series of Animaniacs, Hundt is spoofed as "Reef Blunt".

Hundt is married to Betsy Katz. They have three children and five grand-children, and live in Chevy Chase, MD, and Portola Valley, CA.

He has written five books, including A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama’s Defining Decisions (2019); Zero Hour:Time to Build the Clean Power Platform (2013); The Politics of Abundance: How Technology Can Fix the Budget, Revive the American Dream, and Establish Obama’s Legacy (2012, co-written with Blair Levin); In China’s Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (2006); You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (2000).