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Stanford’s Washington Presence - Clinton administration loaded with alumni of law school
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) (Published as THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) - May 5, 1993
Author/Byline: Mark SimonEdition: FINAL/PSection: NEWSPage: A13Column: PENINSULA INSIDER
There are enough Stanford Law School alumni in key Clinton administration positions for them to hold their own caucus — second in number only to Yale Law School alumni, including the president and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The most recent Stanford Law alum named to a key post was Anne K. Bingaman, who received her J.D. from Stanford in 1968. A member of the Stanford Board of Trustees, she was named last week to head the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the first woman appointed to the post.
But Bingaman is just the latest of the Stanford Law alums to be appointed to the Clinton administration. The most notable is Secretary of State Warren Christopher (Law School Class of 1949). Cheryl Mills (Class of 1990) was a member of the Clinton transition team and has been serving as a White House associate counsel to the president.
The U.S. Senate recently confirmed the appointment of Ronald Noble (Class of 1982) as undersecretary of enforcement in the Treasury Department, which will put him in charge of the investigation of the events involving the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.
Larry Irving (president of the Class of 1979) has been nominated director of the National Telecommunications Information Administration, an arm of the Commerce Department that traditionally serves as the president’s chief adviser on telecommunications policy.
In addition to the appointments, two Class of 1984 classmates were elected to Congress in November — Eric Fingerhut, D-Ohio, and Xavier Becerra, D-Los Angeles.
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Counsel emerges as riveting figure in impeachment trial - Long-serving official becomes 3rd black person to speak from Senate floor
Dallas Morning News, The (TX) (Published as The Dallas Morning News) - January 24, 1999
Author/Byline: Ann Scales, Boston Globe
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Ms. Mills, a Stanford Law School graduate, is one of Mr. Clinton’s longest-serving lawyers. She was the third White House lawyer to argue on his behalf, following on the heels of White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff and special counsel Gregory Craig.
Her job before the Senate was to poke holes in the Republican prosecutors’ case by rebutting charges that Mr. Clinton obstructed justice when his secretary, Betty Currie, retrieved gifts from Monica Lewinsky.
Ms. Mills said Ms. Currie testified before the grand jury that Mr. Clinton had not ordered her to get the gifts from Ms. Lewinsky. Ms. Mills said it was an insult to Ms. Currie to suggest that her loyalty to Mr. Clinton “breeds dishonesty.”
In opening her argument, Ms. Mills said that “as a lawyer, as an American and as an African-American,” she strongly holds the principle of the rule of law.
“It is what many have struggled and died for, the right to be equal before the law,” she said, speaking deliberately and using the cadence of her voice for effect.
“I’d hate to take her on in a courtroom,” said Minyon Moore, the White House deputy political director who took a break from working to watch Ms. Mills.
At the White House, Ms. Mills is teasingly referred to as “Dr. No,” for having a tendency during Mr. Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996 to veto certain expenditures to avoid possible ethics violations.
She joined Mr. Clinton’s campaign in 1992, moving from the Washington area to Little Rock, Ark., to serve as a deputy general counsel during the Clinton-Gore campaign. She joined the White House staff after the inauguration, rising from an associate counsel to holding the dual title of deputy assistant and deputy counsel to the president.
A close associate at the White House, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Ms. Mills “puts a face on the president and his commitment to civil rights” and that she offered a potent counterpunch to Republican prosecutors who accused Mr. Clinton last week of rolling back civil rights by his conduct in the Jones case.
“If you think about it, there is absolutely no way something like this could have happened even 10 years ago . . . where an African-American woman would be arguing on behalf of the president, really in any capacity, let alone in a capacity this momentous,” Ms. Mills’ colleague said.
Distributed by New York Times News Service.