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Ms. Rodgers, 40, joined the Office in 2000 and has served as Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Unit since October 2009.
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Our daughter, Jennifer, is married and is a deputy U.S. attorney in Manhattan. She graduated from UCLA and Boalt Hall and right out of law school joined one of New York City's largest law firms. But she wanted to try cases, be a litigator, so she joined the U.S. attorney's office.
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Jennifer Rodgers is a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. Until mid-2018, she was executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School and now serves on its advisory board.
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