Ronald C. Crump has enjoyed a stellar career as an attorney in Washington, D.C. first clerking for then Associate Judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals, the Honorable Frank Q. Nebeker. He followed the clerkship with a six year legal career as a General Attorney with the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs. During that period of time he began doing probono work for people with employment issues and cases as well as in the court in civil matters not involving government entities. Subsequently, he became as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia doing criminal cases in the late 1980s.
Wishing to further his legal legacy he subsequently changed his legal career orientation and went to Capitol Hill beginning with public service as an Investigative Counsel with the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct where he, as lead attorney, drafted the Committee's procedures so as to comply with the provisions of the then recently enacted Ethics Reform Act of 1989. He then was heavily involved in the investigation in the Banking Operations of the Sergeant-At-Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives as well as the investigation into the U.S. House Of Representatives Post Office. Two of the most significant corruption cases in the history of the U.S. Congress.
After such service he tried private practice for nearly two years and then again returned to public service in 1995 as a Professional Staff Member on the House Committee for International Relations now known as the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He performed duties as an in-house ethics counsel and drafted the Committee's Administrative Procedures for its staff so as to comply with the provisions of the Congressional Accountability Act. These rules are still used today.
Subsequent to his service in the House of Representatives, he later became a Senior Investigative Counsel on the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging where for nearly four years he dealt with a myriad of issues affecting older Americans such as health care, social security, employment and is known for his investigative work in dealing with predatory lending and the sub-prime lending market which resulted in the Government Accountability Office recommending the Congress empower the Federal Reserve to regulate this market ~ a recommendation that was presented in 2004, well before the maturity of the current financial crisis facing the country today.
After such work he spent two years of his career as a Benefits Counsel on the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee dealing with certain veteran issues and from which he briefly transferred back to the House of Representatives so as to retire from Federal Service.
During his career he has served as President of the Washington Bar Association from 1995-1997 and as twice as President of the D.C. Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, 1991-1992, 2008-2009. He currently serves as D.C. Circuit Vice President of the Federal Bar Association. In the past he has also served two terms as a hearing committee person for the Board of Professional Responsibility of the D.C. Bar. He has also served as Chair of the Parish Council at St. Mary’s Mother of God Catholic Church as well as on its Finance Committee.
Currently, he does a small private practice lending the benefits of legal experience to those in need on a pro bono basis and occasionally contract discovery work. He married late in life to the lovely Maria Piedad Reyes Barragan of Bogota Colombia an accomplished journalist and author in her own right.