birth_place nationality birth_date known_for spouse image article_title name occupation alma_mater
united states american 12 december 1945 former clinton advisor , political strategist , presidential advisor elaine atwell-davis j. charney -lrb- ? - ? -rrb- carolyn lanny picture.tif lanny davis
 lanny davis lawyer , author , lobbyist yale college
lanny davis

lanny jesse davis -lrb- born december 12 , 1945 -rrb- is an american lawyer , consultant , lobbyist , author , and television commentator .
from 1996 to 1998 , he served as a special counsel to president bill clinton , and was a spokesperson for the president and the white house on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues .
in 2005 , president george w. bush appointed davis to serve on the five-member privacy and civil liberties oversight board , created by the u.s. congress as part of the 2005 intelligence reform act .
davis 's clients have included porton group , national women 's history museum , national black chamber of commerce , ehealth , sofitel hotels , trent lott , gene upshaw , dan snyder , martha stewart and the office of the president at penn state university .
davis is currently a fox news contributor and has a column called `` purple nation '' that appears regularly in `` the hill '' , `` the huffington post '' , foxnews.com , `` the daily caller '' , and newsmax .
he is a graduate of yale law school , where he won the thurman arnold moot court prize and served on the `` yale law journal '' .
as a yale undergraduate , davis served as chairman of the `` yale daily news '' .
