Clark S. Judge
Managing Director
Specialty: Strategic counsel; writing; training.
Bio: As Managing Director of the White House Writers Group, Clark Judge provides strategic communications counsel to clients in industries ranging from financial services to transportation to high technology.
Mr. Judge has assisted some of the nation's most prominent businesses in developing public positions and communications strategies for responding to regulatory challenges, promoting legislation, marketing high-end professional services, and pursuing mergers and acquisitions. For political clients he has written numerous nationally televised speeches, primarily during presidential campaigns.
In the White House, Mr. Judge served as Speechwriter and Special Assistant to both President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush.
After two-and-a-half years serving the Vice President, he joined President Reagan's speechwriting staff in 1986 and remained with Mr. Reagan through the end of his term. A member of the Moscow Summit speechwriting team, he was also the lead writer for the Toronto Economic Summit in 1988 and helped shape the White House approach to the 1988 presidential campaign.
A Harvard M.B.A., Mr. Judge was a business consultant and writer in New York prior to his first government assignments, which concerned urban policy and international economic policy.
He has written on national and international issues for The Wall Street Journal and other publications.

Clark S. Judge
Managing Director
Writing Samples
Global Issues
- World without Walls
01/28/2008 :: National Review Online - Surge Scoring: Listening to the president’s new Iraq plan. An NRO Symposium
01/11/2007 :: National Review Online - Urgency on the Battlefield
12/12/2006 :: Hoover Digest - Debate Remarks: This house believes that despite its flaws neo-liberal globalization is a good thing.
11/11/2004 :: University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - Our Own Hundred Years' War: U.S. Strategic Context, World War I to the War on Terror
10/01/2003 :: Hoover Digest - Hegemony of the Heart: American Cultural Power in the Post-9/11 World
12/01/2001 :: Policy Review - The Globalization of Public Opinion
06/14/2000 :: Remarks to The Institute of Economic Affairs in London
Communications Questions
- An American Speech
01/20/2009 :: New York Times Blog - Video: Clark Judge On The State of the Union Address
06/20/2008 :: Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia - Say What They Want to Hear -- And, if Possible, Mean It
01/23/2007 :: Wall Street Journal - Bearing the Burden of Writing the Speech
08/24/2005 :: The Wall Street Journal - Labor Lessons
06/10/2004 :: New York Post - Nike and the First Amendment
12/20/2003 :: Hoover Digest - Expanded Legal Privilege Needed For Litigation Public Relations
10/03/2003 :: Washington Legal Foundation, Legal Opinion Letter - P.R. Lessons From the Pentagon
04/01/2003 :: The Wall Street Journal, Manager's Journal - Learnings from Political Persuasion
11/30/2001 :: Yaffe Center for Persuasive Communication, University of Michigan
Economic Policy
- Obama Stimulus Not Necessary, as This Is No Great Depression
02/06/2009 :: USNews.com - The First Bank Run of the Non-Bank Bank Era
09/29/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - A Wall Street Rescue that Makes Every Player a Winner
09/26/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Sin and the Financial Meltdown: Sloth, Not Greed
09/22/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Figuring Out Prof Ben's Fed
03/03/2008 :: The New York Post - Regulation blocks US enterprise
06/04/2007 :: Financial Times - Enron Lives
03/08/2005 :: New York Post - The Real Debt
08/28/2004 :: New York Post - Lessons From the U.S. Past on Monetary Policy
08/07/2003 :: Financial Times, Letter to the Editor - Congress's Stealth Tax
07/24/2002 :: The Wall Street Journal - 'Poor' Assumptions in the Tax Debate
05/04/2001 :: The Wall Street Journal - Thresholds of Pain
08/10/1994 :: The Wall Street Journal - The Tax That Ate the Economy
06/24/1991 :: The Wall Street Journal - Indexing Capital Gains -- Fool's Gold
07/27/1990 :: The Wall Street Journal - Let Consumers Pull the Health-Care Purse Strings
09/26/1989 :: The Wall Street Journal - Problem Isn't Rate of U.S. Savings, but Where the Money Goes
03/23/1989 :: The Wall Street Journal
Political Commentary
- Obama Inauguration Speech Marks the Moment Solidly, Not Historically Well
01/21/2009 :: US News and World Report - What Now?
11/10/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Obama’s Defensive Rhetoric – Bad Sign for His Closing Campaign
11/03/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - The Economics of 2008: A Choice of Middle Classes
10/27/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe the Plumber
10/20/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Obama’s Cluelessness in Our Time of Surprises
10/13/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Everything Old is New Again
10/01/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Palin v. Obama: Who’s Better Suited for National Security Leadership?
09/15/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - McCain’s Successful Convention: How so and Why
09/08/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Where Does the GOP Go From Here?
09/04/2008 :: Wall Street Journal - McCain's Challenge: Redefine the Campaign as Inside Change Blame Versus Outsider Reform
09/02/2008 :: US News and World Report - Thursday v. Friday: Set Piece Battle v. War of Maneuver
09/01/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Barack Gatsby
08/25/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Let the Contest Begin
08/18/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - New Face for the Veepstakes
08/11/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Obama’s Bad Trip
08/05/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Dealing with the D-Word
04/04/2008 :: National Review Online - Farewell Themes in the State of the Union
01/28/2008 :: NPR - Morning Edition - Bush’s Surprising Hand
01/28/2008 :: HughHewitt.com - Video: Clark Judge on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
01/03/2007 :: PBS - How W Got His Mojo Back: Behind Bush's Great Week
06/15/2006 :: The New York Post - Dubya's Drift
10/10/2005 :: The New York Post - Sen. Kerry, It's French for Kiss Off
08/01/2004 :: Los Angeles Times - The Electoral College Is a Bulwark Against Chaos
12/17/2000 :: Los Angeles Times - 'My Fellow Americans': What Mr. Clinton Can Say
01/24/1995 :: The Washington Times - Reagan Gives Republicans A Reality Check
08/17/1992 :: Wall Street Journal - Handstands by the Reagan-wreckers
07/27/1989 :: The Washington Times
Politics & Policy
- Health care too important to be a partisan issue
09/14/2008 :: Orlando Sentinel - Reaganomics and the American Renaissance
11/01/2006 :: Chapter in El Impacto Reagan, published by La Fundacion Centro de Estudios Americanos, Buenos Aires
