NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Note: Lee Forsgren resigned from NASA on April 15, 2005.

Image left: Lee Forsgren leads NASA's Legislative Affairs Office in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

D. Lee Forsgren came to NASA Headquarter's Office of Legislative Affairs in January, 2004. Before joining NASA, Forsgren was a partner and Special Counsel with the Government Relations Team in the Washington office of Adams and Reese LLP, a Gulf Coast-based law firm of more than 260 attorneys. Forsgren also served the Bush-Cheney transition team on the new administration's Transportation Advisory Committee.

"We are fortunate to have someone with Lee's impressive credentials join the NASA family during this important time for the agency," said Administrator O'Keefe. "His working relationship extends across both parties in a bipartisan manner that will make him an effective liaison between NASA and Congress."

Forsgren had been with Adams and Reese since 1999. He provided legal and policy guidance to an array of clients related to maritime policy, transportation policy, logistics, toxic cleanup, contaminated sediments management, natural resource management, and federal appropriations. He has represented clients before both Houses of Congress, numerous federal agencies, and the White House.

Before that, he served five years as Majority Counsel on the Water Resources Subcommittee of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and was Assistant Majority Counsel for the House on the Coast Guard Maritime Transportation Subcommittee. Forsgren also served as the Maritime Legislative Assistant in the office of Congressman Don Young of Alaska.

Forsgren earned his bachelor's degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., in 1983 and a law degree from George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Va., in 1990.