Harry M. Yohalem serves as General Counsel of the California Institute of Technology and is responsible for providing legal support to all Caltech component organizations, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior to joining Caltech in 1991, Mr. Yohalem was a partner in the Washington office of Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) for ten years. Earlier in his career, he held a series of legal and policy positions in state and Federal government, including Assistant Counsel to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Deputy General Counsel for Legal Services of the U.S. Department of Energy and Deputy Under Secretary of Energy.
Mr. Yohalem is a member of the bars of California, New York, Washington, DC and the United States Supreme Court. He received a number of awards for his government service, including the Secretary of Energy's Outstanding Service Award and the Federal Energy Administration's Distinguished Service Award. He received a B.A. with honors in 1965 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he now serves on the Board of Visitors of the English Department. He was graduated cum laude from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, in 1969.
Aerial View of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
