Mr. Nelson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 and Harvard Law School in 1984. He was President of the Harvard Law Review in 1983-84. From 1984 to 1986, Mr. Nelson was a law clerk to Associate Justice Byron R. White of the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining Public Citizen in 2001, Mr. Nelson practiced with the Washington, DC, law firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin. He joined the firm in the fall of 1986 and became a partner in 1991.