GPO’S General Counsel Retires After Four Decades of Service
WASHINGTON - U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Davita Vance-Cooks announces the
retirement of General Counsel Drew Spalding. A career Federal attorney, Spalding joined GPO’s
Office of General Counsel in 1975. Over the years he has held the positions of Attorney-Advisor,
Associate General Counsel, Ethics Counselor, and Deputy General Counsel, becoming the agency’s
General Counsel in 2011. Spalding has been part of agency legal and ethical matters for 41-years.
Spalding started his Federal career as a staff member at the Presidential Clemency Board and then the
Office of the U.S. Pardon Attorney in the Department of Justice. Prior to graduating from law school,
Spalding was a commissioned First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He is a graduate of Bowdoin
College and the Boston University Law School.
“GPO is indebted to Drew for his years of service and representing the agency in legal matters since
the 1970s,” said GPO Director Davita Vance-Cooks. “All of us at GPO wish him the best in
retirement.”
GPO is the Federal Government's official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring,
cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of
the U.S. Government. The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information
products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U.S. passports for
the Department of State as well as the official publications of Congress, the White House, and other
Federal agencies in digital and print formats. GPO provides for permanent public access to Federal
Government information at no charge through www.govinfo.gov, partnerships with approximately
1,150 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program, and our secure
online bookstore. For more information, please visit www.gpo.gov.
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