O'Malley was a Special Attorney of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the
United States Department of Justice in
Washington, D.C.,
Los Angeles, California and
Phoenix, Arizona from 1974 to 1979 and was an
Assistant United States Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri from 1979 to 1983. During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the
United States Attorney General. O'Malley served as an adjunct professor of law at Saint Louis University School of Law from 1979 to 1985, where he previously studied, and as an adjunct professor of law at
Washington University School of Law in 2013 and 2014. He was a legal instructor for the
American Bar Association Central and East European Law Initiative (ABA CEELI) in
Moscow,
Russia in 1996 and
Warsaw,
Poland in 1999. In 1968, he had served as a Community Ambassador in
Prague,
Czechoslovakia. In 2009,
Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon appointed O'Malley to the Missouri Board of Healing Arts, the state's regulatory and disciplinary body for physicians, becoming its only non-
physician member, and the physicians subsequently elected him as Board President. He is a fellow of the
American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL), and a nationally recognised author of a
treatise on
jury instructions that is used in federal jury trials throughout the United States. He has been consistently chosen by the editors of The Best Lawyers in America for his work in
medical negligence defence and
white collar criminal defences. O'Malley was a trial lawyer in the Litigation Department at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a partner, until resigning in order to become a US Ambassador. In 2013, he received the Award of Honor of The Lawyers Association of St. Louis.
Ambassador to Ireland On June 5, 2014, O'Malley was nominated by President Obama for the position of US Ambassador of Ireland. Senator
Claire McCaskill, a
Democrat from Missouri, immediately threw her support behind O'Malley, as did Senator
Roy Blunt, a Republican from Missouri.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said that O'Malley would bring "a strong knowledge of the role of the religious and cultural underpinnings, and the very important foreign policy and national security undergirdings" of the
relationship between the United States and Ireland. On July 15, 2014, O'Malley underwent his first confirmation hearing before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He was unanimously approved by the committee. On September 18, 2014, the US Senate voted on O'Malley's appointment and he was confirmed in a
simple vote. O'Malley was then officially appointed by President Obama, and sworn in by Vice President Biden on September 30, 2014. He presented his credentials to Irish President
Michael D. Higgins on October 8, 2014, taking up residency nearby in the
Deerfield Residence in the
Phoenix Park. On November 8, 2016, the day of the US presidential election, he made a speech at the
Guinness Storehouse in
Dublin where he said "regardless of who our next president is in January, America's relationship with Ireland will remain strong because of the exceptional ties that already exist between our two countries." O'Malley served until January 20, 2017, the date of the
presidential inauguration of
Donald Trump. == Creative Minds ==