John

Malcolm

John G. Malcolm was nominated to serve on the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation by President Donald Trump, and the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on August 1, 2019. 

Malcolm is the Vice President of the Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American Freedom.

He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Columbia College in 1982, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and earned his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1985. Following law school, Malcolm clerked for federal judges in the Northern District of Georgia and on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Malcolm worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, from 1990 to 1997, as an Assistant United States Attorney in Atlanta, Georgia and as an Associate Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C., and from 2001 to 2004, as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division at Main Justice. Malcolm received numerous awards for his service at the Justice Department, including the Director’s Award for Superior Performance by an Assistant United States Attorney. 

Between 1997 and 2001, Malcolm was a founding partner at Malcolm & Schroeder, LLP, and from 2004 through 2009, he served as an Executive Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the Motion Picture Association of America. In 2010, Malcolm served as a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Pepperdine Law School. 

Malcolm served as General Counsel at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2010 to 2012, and later held multiple leadership roles at The Heritage Foundation between 2013 and 2025, including Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, and the Ed Gilbertson and Sherry Lindberg Gilbertson Senior Legal Fellow.

Malcolm is a member of the American Law Institute, past Chairman of the Criminal Law Practice Group of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, past Chairman of the D.C. Advisory Group to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Boys Town Washington D.C., and currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Washington National Opera and the Barber Family Foundation.