Michael Chertoff
Resumé
Birth: November 28, 1953 Elizabeth, New Jersey
Legal Residence: New Jersey
Education: 1971 - 1975 Harvard University
A.B. degree magna cum laude
1975 - 1978 Harvard Law School
J.D. degree magna cum laude
Bar Admittance: 1980 District of Columbia
1987 New York
1990 New Jersey
Experience: 1978 Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin
Summer Associate
1978 - 1979 Law Clerk to the Hon. Murray Gurfein
United States Court of Appeals
Second Circuit
1979 - 1980 Law Clerk to the Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Supreme Court of the United States
1980 - 1983 Latham & Watkins
Associate
1983 - 1987 United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of New York
Assistant United States Attorney
1987 - 1994 United States Attorney’s Office
District of New Jersey
First Assistant United States Attorney, 1987-1990
United States Attorney, 1990-1994
1994 - 1996 United States Senate
Special Counsel for Whitewater Committee
1994 - 2001 Latham & Watkins
Partner
2001 - present United States Department of Justice
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division