William N. Rudman, Esquire

FOUNDER, WILLIAM RUDMAN ASSOCIATES, INC.
1943– 2006

After a distinguished career in the Federal Government, William N. Rudman founded William Rudman Associates, Inc to provide specialized training to federal government managers. Using his experience as a federal manager as well as an attorney, Mr. Rudman developed an entertaining seminar full of real-life anecdotes about the federal personnel discipline system to arm managers and supervisors with the tools necessary to deal with the most challenging employees and personnel situations. His seminar has been presented more than 800 times to virtually every federal agency throughout the United States.

Mr. Rudman retired from federal service in 1993 as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Director of the Defense Technology Security Administration. In his over 26 year career, including 22 years as a criminal investigator, he held every management position from first-line supervisor to agency administrator.

Mr. Rudman began his career as an agent of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Administration) in 1967. He served as Chief of the Legal Branch at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center as well as the head of special agent training for the Offices of Enforcement and Internal Affairs of the US Customs Service and as Special Agent-in-Charge of Customs' Washington, D.C. field office. In addition, he served for two years as the U.S. Treasury representative to INTERPOL in Paris, France.

As US Customs Regional Director of Internal Affairs in Boston, New York, and Chicago, he put together over 200 cases in which the agency was successful in taking appropriate disciplinary action.

Mr. Rudman was a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and held a J. D. degree from Suffolk University. He was a member of the bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, and an adjunct faculty member at the Brookings Institution, as well as a frequent lecturer at the Justice Department's National Advocacy Center.

Mr. Rudman wrote the following articles which appeared in Government Executive magazine: The Full Cost of Filing Discrimination Complaints; How to Handle Employees About To Be Fired; Boss Abuse; The Perils of Pre-Selection; Car Regs Not a One-Way Street; Threats Test Defines Real Danger; On The Hot Seat; When Employees Take the Fifth; A Wrong Turn on Employee Appeals; Crime and Punishment; Heck No We Won't Go; Handling Doomed Employees