page_title: Tom Devine (lawyer)
hierarchical_section_title: Tom Devine (lawyer)
caption_attribution_description: English: Tom Devine accepting Coalition for Integrity award on behalf of whistleblowers everywhere.
context_page_description: Tom Devine is a lawyer, investigator, lobbyist, teacher and advocate for whistleblower rights. He is currently the legal director at the non-profit Government Accountability Project, in Washington, D.C.., where he has worked since 1979. He has assisted more than 7,000 whistleblowers, testified in Congress over 50 times, and has been a leader on the front lines to draft, enact, help to enact, or defend 34 whistleblower laws in the United States and abroad, including nearly all federal laws since 1978 and international rights ranging from former Soviet Bloc nations such as Kosovo, Serbia and Ukraine to the United Nations, World Bank, European Union, and Organization of American States. He is also an adjunct professor at the District of Columbia School of Law, where he teaches classes on and supervises clinical programs in whistleblower protection.
context_section_description: Tom Devine (born June 21, 1951) is a lawyer, investigator, lobbyist, teacher and advocate for whistleblower rights. He is currently the legal director at the non-profit Government Accountability Project, in Washington, D.C.., where he has worked since 1979. He has assisted more than 7,000 whistleblowers, testified in Congress over 50 times, and has been a leader on the front lines to draft, enact, help to enact, or defend 34 whistleblower laws in the United States and abroad, including nearly all federal laws since 1978 and international rights ranging from former Soviet Bloc nations such as Kosovo, Serbia and Ukraine to the United Nations, World Bank, European Union, and Organization of American States. He is also an adjunct professor at the District of Columbia School of Law, where he teaches classes on and supervises clinical programs in whistleblower protection.
caption: Devine at the 2019 Coalition for Integrity award ceremony
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