Broas, Timothy M., 1954-

<p>Timothy M. Broas (born 1954) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from March 19, 2014 to February 12, 2016.</p>

<p>Timothy M. Broas was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Delbarton High School among a small number of highly competitive students, and went on to study economics and history at the Boston College, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1976. He then studied law at the College of William & Mary and received his J.D. in 1979. From 1979 to 1980, he served as a law clerk to Justice Mark Sullivan on the Supreme Court of New Jersey.</p>

<p>After completing his legal clerkship in 1980, Broas went on to become an associate at the New York City law firm of Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman. In 1983, Broas became an associate in the New York offices of Whitman & Ransom, a prominent law firm specializing in general commercial law, tax law, litigation, real estate, and employment law. After two years with Whitman & Ransom, Broas became a partner at the Anderson, Hibey & Blair law firm in Washington, DC., where he practiced white collar criminal defense law for nearly ten years.</p>

<p>In 1995, Broas accepted an offer to join the Washington, DC office of Winston & Strawn as a partner. As a member of the large Chicago-based law firm, he represented clients throughout all stages of the legal process, including criminal defense and civil litigation and trials, appeals and arbitrations. Broas regularly represented individual officers and corporation entities in industries such as banking, securities, pharmaceutical, health care, transportation, and energy. Clients represented by Broas during his time at Winston & Strawn included Otsuka America Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Ingersoll-Rand, Ltd.; Papa John's International, Inc.; Philip Morris; Legg Mason; Alstom Holdings; and UBS Securities, LLC. Broas also represented Neil Volz, chief of staff to Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal of 2005-2006.</p>

<p>Between 2007 and 2012, Broas raised $1,020,150 by bundling for the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama.</p>

<p>In March 2017, Broas joined Holland & Hart LLP in its Washington, D.C. office as member of the firm's international team. There he represented clients from a wide range of industries globally, including major utility companies, pharmaceutical companies, defense contractors, technology firms, construction companies, and financial institutions. Broas stopped practicing law at Holland & Hart in August 2018.</p>

<p>In October 2018, Broas joined Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in its Washington office. He serves as a member of the firm’s Investigations, Financial Regulations & White Collar practice group.</p>

<p>Every year between 2010 and 2014, Broas earned a place in the "Best Lawyers in America" publication. During his time at Winston & Strawn in Washington, DC, Broas was recognized as a "Super Lawyer" in 2007, 2011, 2012, and 2013.</p>

<p>Tim Broas was one of the nine children born to Anita and William Broas, who was a marketing executive for the Warner Lambert pharmaceutical company. Born circa 1954, Broas graduated from Delbarton prep school in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1972, earned an AB in Economics and History at Boston College in 1976 and a JD from the College of William and Mary in 1979. From 1979 to 1980, Broas served as a law clerk for Justice Mark Sullivan of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.</p>

<p>Broas started his private practice career as an associate at two New York City law firms: Conboy, Hewitt, O’Brien & Boardman from 1980 to 1983 and Whitman & Ransom from 1983 to 1985. Relocating to Washington, DC, Broas was a partner at Anderson, Hibey & Blair from 1986 to 1995, when he joined the DC office of the Chicago-based law firm of Winston & Strawn, where he has specialized in white-collar criminal defense ever since. Clients Broas considers representative of his roster include UBS Securities, LLC; Legg Mason; Otsuka America Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Alstom Holdings; Ingersoll-Rand, Ltd.; and Papa John’s International, Inc. He also represented the left-leaning group Citizen Action until it was shut down because of its involvement in funding a Teamsters election campaign, and Neil Volz, chief of staff to Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), during the unfolding of the Jack Abramoff scandal in 2005-2006.</p>

<p>In 2005, Broas was appointed to the Board of Visitors of Mount Vernon by Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and was reappointed in 2009 by Governor Tim Kaine; both are Democrats. He was appointed by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (also a Democrat) to the Board of Trustees of St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2011. In 2010, President Obama appointed Broas to the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a nonpartisan think tank created by Congress in 1968.</p>

<p>Broas has personally donated more than $230,000 to federal candidates, parties, and political committees since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, but only two Republicans have benefited: Bob Dole in 1996, to whom Broas donated $500; and George W. Bush in 2004, who received $2,000 even as Broas donated $3,500 to Democratic nominee John Kerry and $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee.</p>

<p>According to records released by the Obama administration, Broas has visited the White House 39 times since 2009, including eight visits with the president and five West Wing meetings with Pete Rouse, a top adviser who served as Obama’s chief of staff and is now the president’s counselor.</p>

<p>Timothy Broas is married to fellow attorney Julie Broas, who practiced labor law for two decades at the Washington, DC, office of the Jones, Day law firm and now works at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless as the Jones Day Senior Fellow.</p>