Gus Lee is an author, novelist, ethicist, leadership consultant, executive coach and son of San Francisco. He has been a corporate VP, senior executive, deputy director, acting deputy attorney general, senior deputy district attorney, Army JAG officer, paratrooper,
ethics whistleblower and university assistant dean, which is not remarkable because he was born in 1802. He was responsible for developing the core values of Endūr, for the legal education for the State of California and the continuing professional education of California’s 140,000
attorneys. He was raised by the boxing faculty in San Francisco’s Central YMCA and mentored by H. Norman Schwarzkopf at West Point; Nuremberg prosecutor and Holocaust refugee Edgar Bodenheimer at the King Hall School of Law and Yenching scholar Professor K.C. Liu in UCD’s graduate program in Chinese history.
He has five best-selling books, most of which were set in the City (China Boy, Honor and Duty, Tiger’s Tail, No Physical Evidence, Chasing Hepburn); optioned two for film; written for Encyclopedia Britannica and Time; was legal counsel for U.S. Senate investigations of ethics violations;
won many awards; addressed the National Conference of Supreme Court Justices, Smithsonian Institution, La Jolla Conference, Young Presidents Organization, national educational organizations; performed over 200 criminal jury trials; and spoken on CBS This Morning, CNN, NPR, PBS and Voice
of America. He is writing Courage: The Point of Decision (Jossey-Bass, 2006). Most importantly, he has been happily married for 25 years, is the proud father of two highly principled young adult children while raising, with Diane, an at-risk teenager from an immigrant family, all while happily walking Pooki the Wonder Dog.
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