Scott H. Green | |
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Born |
Doylestown, Pennsylvania |
February 20, 1951
Education | University of Delaware (B.A. '73) |
Occupation | NFL official, public safety consultant |
Years active |
1991-2013 (as NFL official); Since 1994 (as contractor) |
Known for |
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee staff member (1985–90) Referee for 2010 Super Bowl |
Home town | Potomac Falls, Virginia |
Scott H. Green is a former American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from the 1991 NFL season until the 2013 NFL season. He had officiated Super Bowls XXXVI in 2002, XXXVIII in 2004, and was the referee for XLIV in 2010. Green was also the head of the NFL Referees Association and led negotiations during the 2012 NFL referee lockout.
Outside of his part-time work in professional football, Green works as a Washington, D.C. contractor for public safety and criminal justice agencies as part of a firm he co-founded in 1994. Green announced his retirement at the conclusion of the 2013 football season.
Green is a 1969 graduate of Central Bucks High School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he was a linebacker and kicker. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of Delaware, where he received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Prior to his NFL career, from 1985 to 1990 Green was a Judiciary Committee staff person under then-Senator Joe Biden. In 1994, Green, a resident of Potomac Falls, Virginia, co-founded the Lafayette Group with Charles B. DeWitt, a Washington, D.C., government contractor that focuses on public safety and emergency management; as of 2014 the firm employs 90 people.