Stan Pottinger
Politician, novelist
J. Stanley Pottinger has been a Washington bureaucrat, a lawyer, investment banker, and novelist. He is currently a partner in Edwards Pottinger LLC.
Pottinger held significant roles as a bureaucratic appointee in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. From 1970 to 1973, he held the position of the Director of the Office of Civil Rights, at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1970-1973 and from 1973-77 served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Justice.
Pottinger later wrote a best selling book The Fourth Procedure, as well as several other novels.
