Jamie Gorelick

Jamie Gorelick
Official portrait, 2022
Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
Assumed office
March 21, 2022
Serving with William Bratton
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byWilliam Webster
28th United States Deputy Attorney General
In office
March 17, 1994 – May 1997
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byPhilip Heymann
Succeeded byEric Holder
General Counsel of the Department of Defense
In office
May 5, 1993 – March 17, 1994
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byDavid Addington
Succeeded byJudith Miller
Personal details
Born
Jamie Shona Gorelick[1]

(1950-05-06) May 6, 1950 (age 74)
New York City, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Richard Waldhorn
(m. 1975)
Children2
RelativesShirley Gorelick (mother)
EducationHarvard University (BA, JD)

Jamie Shona Gorelick (/ɡəˈrɛlɪk/; born May 6, 1950) is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration. She has been a partner at WilmerHale since 2003 and has served on the board of directors of Amazon since February 2012.[2][3]

Gorelick served on British Petroleum's Advisory Council, as their top legal counsel after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[4] She was appointed by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the September 11 attacks, and also served as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hearing was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Officers & Directors". Amazon. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  3. ^ (Dec 17, 2020), Amazon Board of Directors Compensation and Salary ~ Jamie Gorelick $952,741
  4. ^ Phillip, Abby (June 17, 2010). "Gorelick's challenge: Backing BP". POLITICO. Retrieved May 28, 2017.