James Donovan

New England School of Law, 1998

After graduating from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1985, James Donovan spent the next seven years at sea, assuming the command of a Coast Guard Cutter and leading more than 500 boardings of suspected drug-carrying vessels. In 1992, while holding several staff positions at the First Coast Guard District Boston, Commander Donovan attended the law school’s evening division. Upon graduation, Donovan became a Coast Guard law specialist, and in 2002 served as the Coast Guard liaison to the United Nations. Upon his retirement from the Coast Guard in 2007, he became a State Department attorney on the staff of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.