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G.A. Puryear was named General Counsel of CCA in January 2001. Most recently Puryear served as Legislative Director and Counsel for U.S. Senator Bill Frist where he worked on legislation and other policy matters. During the fall of 2000 Puryear also served as a debate advisor to Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Puryear also worked as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs' special investigation of campaign finance abuses during the 1996 elections which was chaired by Senator Fred Thompson. Prior to his career on Capital Hill Puryear worked for Farris Warfield & Kanaday (now Stites and Harbison) a law firm in Nashville. Puryear was also a law clerk for the Honorable Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit in Jackson Miss. Puryear earned a bachelor's with highest honors in political science from Emory University in 1990 and a J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1993. | 