Thomas Goonan

Mr. Goonan has a record of over 30 years of U.S. Government service. Mr. Goonan has served since May 2019 as the General Counsel of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), an independent, scientific Executive Branch agency that investigates the causes of chemical accidents at industrial facilities located throughout the United States. He is a 30-year civilian and military employee of the US Army, including four years active duty in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Before joining the CSB, Mr. Goonan served since 2015 as Chief Counsel of the Army’s Natick Soldier Legal Office in Natick, Massachusetts, and prior to that as the Chief Counsel of the Army’s 13,000 employee Research, Development and Engineering Command located at Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Ground. 

Mr. Goonan graduated magna cum laude in 1979 from Norwich University, earned his JD from New England School of Law in 1983, and received advanced degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and the Army War College in 2002. He has taught both labor law and labor relations as an adjunct instructor at the University of Maryland’s University College and at Florida Institute of Technology.