Judge Luttig served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years, from 1991 to 2006. He is currently Counselor and Special Advisor to The Coca-Cola Company and the Board of Directors of the Coca-Cola Company.
Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company in January 2021, Judge Luttig was Counselor and Senior Advisor to The Boeing Company CEO and The Boeing Company Board of Directors. He was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Boeing Company from 2006 to 2020.
Before he was appointed to the Federal Bench by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, he served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel and Counselor to the Attorney General of the United States at the U.S. Department of Justice 1990-1991. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1989-1990.
He was Assistant Counsel to the President at The White House from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan. From 1982 to 1983, he was a law clerk to then-Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1983 to 1985, he served as a law clerk and then Special Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger.
Judge Luttig is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Franklin-Templeton Mutual Funds, a Trustee of the National Constitution Center, a Member of the Board of the Society for the Rule of Law, Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Task Force on American Democracy, a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, a Distinguished Fellow of the Karsh Institute of Democracy and the University of Virginia School of Law’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, a Senior Fellow of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, and a Member of the National Advisory Council of More Perfect.
Judge Luttig earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University and his law degree from the University of Virginia.
Judge Luttig is married to Mrs. Elizabeth Luttig. The couple have two children, Morgan and John.