Thomas H. Stanton is a Washington, DC attorney. He is a Fellow of the Center for the Study of American Government at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches graduate seminars on the law of public institutions; government and the American economy; and government and the credit markets.

Mr. Stanton's academic, legal and policy experience relates to the capacity of public institutions to deliver services effectively, with specialties relating to federal credit and benefits programs, government corporations and financial regulation. In recent years, he has provided legal and policy counsel relating to the design and operation of a variety of federal government programs.

Mr. Stanton is Chair of the Standing Panel on Executive Organization and Management of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and has helped to teach NAPA's seminar on government enterprises. He is a former member of the Senior Executive Service.

His writings on government and the financial markets include a book on government-sponsored enterprises, A State of Risk (HarperCollins, 1991), and numerous articles. He is a member of the Advisory Board of a journal, The Financier: Analyses of Capital and Money Market Transactions.

Mr. Stanton earned his B.A. degree from the University of California at Davis, M.A. from Yale University, and J.D. from the Harvard Law School. The National Association of Counties has awarded him its Distinguished Service Award for his advocacy on behalf of the intergovernmental partnership.