R. Hewitt

Pate

R. Hewitt Pate is vice president and general counsel for Chevron Corporation, a position he has held since 2009. As Chevron’s chief legal officer, Pate directs the company’s worldwide legal affairs and serves on the company’s Executive Committee.

Prior to joining Chevron, Pate was a partner at Hunton & Williams, where he headed the firm’s Global Competition practice. From 2003 to 2005, Pate was the assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. While in that position, he argued for the government in the U.S. Supreme Court Empagran case on antitrust jurisdiction, and chaired the OECD Competition Committee Working Party 3 on international enforcement. From 2001 to 2003, he was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division, responsible for energy, transportation, and other regulated industries. In 1999, Pate served as Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, teaching Intellectual Property/Unfair Competition and Law of the Political Process. He is a member of the bars of Texas, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. He serves on the board of the National Park Trust, The First Tee, and the Evans Scholars Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Pate earned a B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1984 and a J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1987. He was a law clerk for U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, for retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.