Xavier Becerra is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 33rd and current attorney general of California since 2017. He previously was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Downtown Los Angeles in Congress from 1993 to 2017. Becerra, a member of the Democratic Party, was Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus from 2013 to 2017. On December 7, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Becerra to be the United States secretary of health and human services. If confirmed by the Senate, he will be the fourth Californian to hold the position, the first Democrat from California and first Latino to do so.
Douglas Howard Ginsburg is an American jurist and academic who serves as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to that court at age 40 in October 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, and served as its chief judge from July 2001 until February 2008. Ginsburg was nominated by Reagan to fill a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy after the retirement of Lewis F. Powell in October 1987, but soon withdrew from consideration after his earlier marijuana use created controversy.
Michael Vincent DiSalle was an American attorney and politician from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of Toledo from 1948 to 1950, and as governor of Ohio from 1959 to 1963.
Peter Francis Flaherty was an American politician and attorney. He served as Assistant District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1964, a member of the Pittsburgh City Council from 1966 to 1970, the 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1970 to 1977, United States Deputy Attorney General during the Carter administration from 1977 to 1978, and County Commissioner of Allegheny County from 1984 to 1996.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is an international law firm headquartered on Sixth Avenue in New York City.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is an American law firm. Founded in 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, Kirkland is the largest law firm in the world by revenue, the seventh-largest by number of attorneys, and is the first law firm in the world to reach US$4 billion in revenue. Kirkland also ranks second-highest globally in profits per equity partner, and is the highest among firms with a global presence. While Kirkland was historically considered a firm focused on litigation, during the 2010s, it expanded private equity and restructuring practices which, together with large-scale commercial litigation, comprise the core legal service areas of the firm.
Jeffrey Ross Toobin is an American lawyer, blogger, author and legal analyst for CNN. During the Iran–Contra affair, he served as an associate counsel in the Department of Justice. He moved from government into writing during the 1990s, and wrote for The New Yorker from 1993 to 2020. Toobin has written several books, including an account of the O. J. Simpson murder case. That book was adapted as a TV series, The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, which aired in 2016 as the first season of FX American Crime Story; it won nine Emmy Awards. In October of 2020, Toobin took a leave from CNN and was suspended and then fired from The New Yorker after exposing himself and masturbating while on a Zoom video call.
Murray Irwin Gurfein was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and prior to that a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Vincent Joseph "Vinnie" Gentile is an American politician who served in the New York City Council from the 43rd district from 2003 to 2017. He is a Democrat. The district includes Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Dyker Heights in Brooklyn.
Michael Martin Uhlmann was an American political scientist. He was Professor of Government in the Department of Politics and Government at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont McKenna College. Prior to teaching at Claremont, Uhlmann was a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Vice President for Public Policy Research at the Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and taught at the Antonin Scalia Law School.
William Joseph Baer is an American lawyer who served as the Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division under the administration of President Barack Obama. He is a partner at the American law firm Arnold & Porter, where he works in antitrust law and white collar defense. Since January 2020 he has been a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Dana James Boente ( Bent-Ë) is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He also served as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. On October 27, 2017, Boente announced he would resign from the Department of Justice after a successor is in place. On January 23, 2018, Boente was named general counsel to the FBI by the director Christopher A. Wray, filling the vacancy after James Baker's reassignment to another part of the bureau.
Carol Eggert Dinkins is an American attorney. Under President Ronald Reagan, Dinkins served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Land and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice, and later the 20th United States Deputy Attorney General. Under President George W. Bush, Dinkins chaired the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
William F. Passannante was an American politician and attorney who served in the New York State Assembly from 1955 to 1990.
John P. Carlin is an American attorney and government official who has served as the Acting Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice since January 21, 2021. He previously served as United States Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division from April 2014 to October 15, 2016, and as Chief of Staff to Robert Mueller during his time as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Audrey Strauss is an American attorney serving as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. As deputy U.S. Attorney, Strauss assumed the acting position on June 20, 2020, after the previous U.S. attorney, Geoffrey Berman, stepped down amid pressure from Attorney General William Barr. On December 22, 2020, the judges of the Southern District of New York, effective January 16, 2021 and pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d), unanimously appointed Strauss as U.S. Attorney for an indeterminate term.
Richard Donoghue is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as the Acting United States Deputy Attorney General from December 2020 to January 2021. Previously, he served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. Donoghue was appointed interim U.S. Attorney by Jeff Sessions in January 2018. On December 14, 2020, President Trump announced that Donoghue would become Acting United States Deputy Attorney General on December 24, 2020.
Stuart F. Delery is an American attorney who served as the acting United States Associate Attorney General from 2014 to 2016. In December 2020, it was announced that Delery would serve as Deputy Counsel to the President in the Biden administration.
Jessica Hertz is an American attorney and political advisor who is the White House Staff Secretary in the Biden administration. Hertz previously served as general counsel for the Presidential transition of Joe Biden and associate general counsel at Facebook.
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