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{{short description|American lawyer}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Stephen Rademaker
| office = [[Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation]]
| image = Stephen Rademaker.jpg
| president = [[George W. Bush]]
| term_start = September 13, 2005
| term_end = May 20, 2006
| predecessor = ''Position established''
| successor = Francis C. Record
| birth_name = Stephen Geoffrey Rademaker
| birth_date = 1959
| spouse = [[Danielle Pletka]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Virginia]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]], [[Master of Arts|MA]])
}}
'''Stephen Geoffrey Rademaker''' (born 1959) is an [[Attorney at law (United States)|attorney]], [[Lobbying|lobbyist]], and former [[George W. Bush administration|Bush administration]] government official. He was chief counsel to the [[United States House Committee on Homeland Security]] of the House of Representatives, and an [[United States Assistant Secretary of State|Assistant Secretary of State]] from 2002 through 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 3, 2005 |title=Biography: Stephen G. Rademaker |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/12813.htm |website=U.S. Department of State Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephen Rademaker |url=https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/r/stephen-rademaker |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=www.cov.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Education==
Rademaker attended the [[University of Virginia]] where he received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] (1981) in [[international relations|Foreign Affairs]], a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] (1984), and an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in [[international relations|Foreign Affairs]] (1985). He was a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]], the [[Jefferson Literary and Debating Society]], and president of the Student Council during his time at the university.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scoblic |first=J. Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48FroLdbMG8C&dq=stephen+rademaker+university+of+virginia&pg=PT283 |title=U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror |date=April 17, 2008 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-4406-3901-2 |language=en |access-date=June 28, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOByGVQ8PHsC&dq=stephen+rademaker+university+of+virginia&pg=PA3 |title=The Legacy of Chornobyl: Health and Safety 20 Years Later : Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, April 25, 2006 |date=2007 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |isbn=978-0-16-079910-5 |language=en |access-date=July 12, 2022}}</ref>

==Career==

Rademaker was an associate at the [[Washington, D.C.]] [[law firm]] of [[Covington & Burling]] 1984 to 1986, and in 1986 a [[law clerk]] to [[James L. Buckley]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]].<ref name="bio"/>

From 1986 to 1987, he served as counsel to the Vice Chairman of the [[U.S. International Trade Commission]]. From 1987 to 1989, Stephen served as a Special Assistant to the [[Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs|Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs]].<ref name="bio"/><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=ADVANCING U.S. INTERESTS THROUGH THE OSCE |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-108jhrg96192/html/CHRG-108jhrg96192.htm |access-date=December 2, 2022 |website=www.govinfo.gov}}</ref>

From 1989 to 1992, Rademaker held a joint appointment as Associate Counsel to the President in the [[White House Counsel|Office of Counsel to the President]] and as Deputy Legal Adviser to the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]. From 1992 to 1993, Stephen served as General Counsel of the [[Peace Corps]]. For most of the following decade, he held positions on the staff of the [[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs|Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives]], including Minority Chief Counsel (1993–1995), Chief Counsel (1995–2001), and Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel (2001–2002). He returned briefly to the Peace Corps in 2000–2001 as the Bush-Cheney [[United States presidential transition|Transition]]'s Director of Transition for the Peace Corps.<ref name="bio"/><ref name=":2" />

In 2002, he was Chief Counsel to the [[United States House Committee on Homeland Security|Select Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives]], where he was responsible for drafting the legislation that created the [[Department of Homeland Security]]. Later that year, he was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] as the [[Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation]], serving until May 2006.<ref name="bio"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rademaker |first=Stephen |date=September 23, 2009 |title=Stephen Rademaker: Why Democrats Fail at Arms Control |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204518504574418890778615748 |access-date=August 22, 2022 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=President Obama's Plan Is Effective for Deterrence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/10/26/a-nuclear-arsenal-upgrade/president-obamas-plan-is-effective-for-deterrence |access-date=October 6, 2022 |website=www.nytimes.com |language=en}}</ref>

After leaving the public sector, Rademaker joined [[Barbour, Griffith, and Rogers]] in January 2007. In February 2011, Rademaker left the firm and joined the [[Podesta Group]].<ref name=":1" /> In 2020 [[Covington & Burling]] listed him as senior [[of counsel]].

== Personal life ==
Rademaker is married to [[Danielle Pletka]], the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the [[American Enterprise Institute]].<ref name="SilversteinRealEstate">{{cite news|last1=Silverstein|first1=Ken|title=How the Iraq War Financed a Beltway Real Estate Boom|url=https://theintercept.com/2015/01/02/war-iraq-helped-finance-personal-beltway-financial-boom/|accessdate=May 8, 2017|publisher=[[The Intercept]]|date=January 2, 2015}}</ref> Rademaker has four children.<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |title=Stephen G. Rademaker |url=https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS29/20140717/102474/HHRG-113-AS29-Bio-RademakerS-20140717.pdf |access-date=June 14, 2022 |website=docs.house.gov}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120316123356/http://www.podesta.com/talent/stephen-rademaker Podesta Group] bio
* [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/results/leadership/bio_362.html White House] bio
* [http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/12813.htm State Department] bio
* [https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/r/stephen-rademaker Covington & Burling] bio

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