Background
Goodman, Lee Elton was born on March 29, 1964 in Danville, Virginia, United States. Son of Lewis Elton and Elizabeth Moore Goodman.
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Goodman, Lee Elton was born on March 29, 1964 in Danville, Virginia, United States. Son of Lewis Elton and Elizabeth Moore Goodman.
Bachelor, University of Virginia, 1986; Juris Doctor, University of Virginia, 1990.
He received his Bachelor of Arts with highest distinction in 1986 from the University of Virginia, where he double majored in American Government and Rhetoric & Communication Studies. He received his Juris Doctor in 1990 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Articles Editor for the U.Va. Journal of Law & Politics.
Goodman practiced election law in private practice for the better part of two decades and served in a number of governmental and political posts.
He advised four presidential campaigns from 2007 to 2012. He served as general counsel of the Republican Party of Virginia (2009-2013).
He also represented non-political clients in addressing other regulatory and public policy issues. Goodman has authored several articles on election law, including a chapter on regulation of political speech on the Internet in the book Law and Election Politics - The Rules of the Game (Routledge 2013), and he has lectured frequently on election law topics.
He has served on the boards of several political, educational and cultural non-profit organizations.
He is recognized as a national expert in close elections, recounts and election administration. Goodman was the 2014 Lefever Fellow at Elizabethtown College. His prior government service includes four years as legal counsel and policy advisor to the Governor of Virginia (1998-2002) and three years as counsel and special assistant to the Attorney General of Virginia (1995-1997).
He served as chief adviser to the Chairman of the Congressional Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (1999-2000).
He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1986 as a double major in American Government and Rhetoric & Communication Studies. He then graduated in 1990 from Virginia and earned his Juris Doctor.
In private practice, he represented candidates, public officials, political parties, political action committees, non-profit organizations, and media companies in addressing a wide range of laws regulating their political activities and speech.
Married Paige Pippin, July 9, 1994.