Robert James Woolsey Jr., known as R. James Woolsey or Jim Woolsey, born September 21, 1941, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an American lawyer, diplomat, and national security expert who served as Director of Central Intelligence from February 5, 1993, to January 10, 1995, under President Bill Clinton. A Rhodes Scholar, he earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1963, an M.A. from Oxford University in 1965, and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1968. Early in his career, Woolsey was active in anti-Vietnam War efforts and led the Yale Political Union as its president from 1967 to 1968. He practiced law at Shea & Gardner from 1973 to 1993, becoming a partner. During the 1970s and 1980s, Woolsey held significant government positions under Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, including United States Under Secretary of the Navy (1977–1979), and participated in five years of arms control treaty negotiations with the Soviet Union. After his CIA tenure, he became a venture capitalist and investor, serving on boards and advisory councils across private, government, and nonprofit sectors, including as trustee and advisor for the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). A prominent neoconservative, Woolsey has been an advocate for the Iraq War and the expanded War on Terror, served as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), supported the Coalition for Democracy in Iran, and been a member of the Defense Policy Board. He remains active as a national security, energy policy, and intelligence analyst and is known to be a close friend and Chevy Chase neighbor of Richard Perle.