Eric Huang ‘05 Chair, Dean’s Advisory Council

Chief of Staff to Vice-President, Head of Staff Counsel, GEICO 

Eric Huang is a 2005 graduate of the Washington College of Law and Chair of both the Dean's Advisory Council and the John Sherman Myers Society. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 2001. As a law student, Eric participated in the Criminal Justice Clinic, sat on the school's Admissions Committee, was a senator in the Student Bar Association, and performed as part of the annual Law Revue. At graduation, he was one of the recipients of the Clair A. Cripe Award, given to an outstanding graduating student in the field of correctional law.

Immediately following his time at WCL, Eric served as law clerk for two years to the Honorable Robert Mack Bell, now-retired Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. Eric then spent the next seven years as an Assistant Attorney General with the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, first as a prosecutor and later as a labor and employment trial attorney. In 2015, Eric joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as employment counsel in both an advisory and litigating role. From there, Eric was recruited into a sequence of newly created leadership roles: building the FBI’s first National Security Coordination Litigation Unit, serving as Senior Counsel to the General Counsel, and ultimately becoming Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer.

Today, Eric is an executive with GEICO, serving as Chief of Staff to the Head of Staff Counsel, GEICO’s in-house litigation and legal services cadre, a department of 500+ attorneys and more than a thousand personnel in total, responsible for defending insureds, handling lawsuits, and resolving cases cost-effectively.